missy sheila’s blog

Holy Leaping Tigers, Batman!

2007-09-20T11:08:21Z

Maybe it's the Prairie Girl thing. The whole "mountains only get in the way of the view" sensibility, but I have never really been into the big hills. All that time at the Banff Centre, and living in Calgary shuttling back and forth in the Rockie...

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Walking marriage in the Women's Kingdom

2007-09-15T13:03:06Z

I have to say, bless him, it was Chris's idea to go to Lugu Lake. Talk about an absolutely stunning place! The whole region was completely isolated right up until the 1970s, and managed to survive China's upheavals unscathed because it really was...

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To fly when you die

2007-09-15T09:27:21Z

I was surprised to hear that sky burials are still - erm - alive and kicking in Tibetan China, after their ban in the 1970s. And I was surprised again to find that in the thin air of tiny little Litang there lived one of the few rogyapas ("body-...

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The Lowbei Blues: China - I love it I hate it

2007-09-04T07:08:53Z

Arrival... Originally uploaded by missyshera & chrissybun. I think I am finally getting to grips with China. It was really doing us both in - and it's a lot of work I must say - but I think after 3 months I am starting to get the hang of ...

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Temples, temples, tempus

2007-09-04T06:14:20Z

Temple Objects Originally uploaded by missyshera & chrissybun. Every place we went had a temple of some sort, and usually there were several...It reminded me travelling around Europe last summer in the van, when I got seriously churched o...

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China "Guide" Books

2007-09-04T05:25:10Z

Street Food Rocks Originally uploaded by missyshera & chrissybun. We managed to get a bootleg copy of the new Lonely Planet (2007) edition. As the Chinese govt doesn't allow the import of the China Lonely Planet - probably because it is n...

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Of Cowboys, Vultures and Thin Rare Air

2007-09-02T11:37:31Z

TIbetan China Street Scene Originally uploaded by missyshera & chrissybun. Suddenly, it's been three weeks that we have been trawling around the backwoods of China. Firstly following the SIlk Road via Lanzhou - where they still float carg...

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