- Minorities can have two children. Countryside Chinese are allowed to have two children if your first child is a girl. They must wait four years and then pay around 50,000 yuan for permission to have a second child. – Almost everyone in China believes all Americans are rich. A bus driver came over to [...]
“Travel Tips & Advice on Anhui Fujian Hunan Guangdong Provinces”
A Mish-Mosh of Southeast China Trivia
October 16th, 2011 
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Food in Southeast China – What We Ate and What We Didn’t Eat
October 15th, 2011 Sheila Simkin Travels With Sheila definitely travels on her stomach. L-O-V-E food and am only picky about a few items in China. Rats, insects, innards, snakes, bats, monkeys, fish with the most gigantic bones I’ve ever seen…there are probably a few more that doesn’t come to mind right now. They may all be the most delicious, wonderful [...]
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Back in Zhangjiajie for One, Last Afternoon in China
October 14th, 2011 Sheila Simkin We began the drive back from Dehang Village through the same landscapes before turning in a different direction and entering Jishou City, Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture. Xiangxi is northwest of Hunan Province, neighbors Zhangjiajie to the east. Huaihua to the south and is bordered by Guizhou Province to the west. I wouldn’t mind [...]
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How The Dehang Miao Really Live in China
October 13th, 2011 Sheila Simkin The Miao ethnic minority is larger than most of minority groups in China but they all primarily live in cold, wet and mountainous regions. There is a Miao proverb that states… Fish swim in water, birds fly in the air, Miao live on the mountains… Centuries of oppression have pushed them high into the mountains [...]
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Inside Dehang Miao Village, China
October 12th, 2011 Sheila Simkin There is a large contingent of Miao ethnic minority people settled in this particular Western Hunan region with more living in the provinces of Guizhou, Yunnan, and Sichuan. Other members of the Miao sub-groups, most notably Hmong people, can be found in (northern Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar (Burma) and Thailand). And I do believe we’ve visited [...]
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The Ride to Dehang Miao Village Outside of Fenghuang, China
October 11th, 2011 Sheila Simkin This was the last day in Southeast China and began after breakfast with a ride to visit Dehang on another misty and grey day. Dehang is a Miao Village tucked into a river valley. After that, we’d begin the ride back to Zhangjiajie, fly to Shanghai tonight and overnight out by Pudong Airport before beginning [...]
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Shopping and Sights in Fenghuang (Phoenix Town), China
October 10th, 2011 Sheila Simkin Fenghuang (Phoenix Town) has developed into a popular tourist destination over the past decades from its origin as a simple, quiet town. Up to the 1980′s, most of the local residents made a living by rafting, cutting wood, bartering logs and folk products. Very few tourists came to Fenghuang until the local government began to [...]
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Hong Covered Bridge aka “Rainbow Bridge” – Fenghuang, China
October 9th, 2011 Sheila Simkin Fenghuang is on the list of National Historical and Cultural Cities in China and has recently applied to be on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. The typical, high gabled wooden stilt houses alone should be enough to convince anyone. Fenghuang certainly has my vote. A day really isn’t enough to investigate Fenghuang at your leisure. Two [...]
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Houses on Stilts Along the Tuojiang River, Fenghuang Ancient City, China
October 8th, 2011 Sheila Simkin The Tuojiang River is the life force of the local people. We’d already noticed women washing their clothes along the embankment, a few men fishing with nets, and refuse collected by boat to help keep the tourist litter down…View image. Of even more importantance in this modern world, the river provides a means of income [...]
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Boating Down The Tuojiang River in Fenghuang, China
October 7th, 2011 Sheila Simkin Almost every tourist takes one of the boat rides down the Tuojiang River. We were no exception and Travels With Sheila gives it a big thumbs up. Also called the Tuo River, views of Ancient Fenghuang spread out on both banks are beyond incredible and my 50 plus photographs and video just can’t do it [...]
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