Blog 7: A Golden week in the Yellow Mountains
The beauty and curse of this experience also extends to our holiday time. The beauty allows us to have 3+ weeks of school / company holidays for travel. Those holidays typically center around Chinese occasions. We have 2, week long school breaks (September and April) and 1 Chinese new year (February, 12 days). We have (and will continue) to take full advantage of that time. The curse, however, is that I am writing this blog on a work trip to Beijing on Thanksgiving. It is a give and take. My mom was our first (of many) visitors to China and she planned it to overlap with the first school break in September. We looked everywhere for a place to go… but, when you are competing with 1.4billion people for cool destinations, everything was either way over priced or way too crowded Finally, we settled on a short trip to the Huangshan, China to see the fabled yellow mountains. This trip let us test out China’s high...