Travel Tip: Using an iPad in China

Travel tip, I eagerly embraced the iPad 3G, hoping to shed the weight of my laptop when traveling to China. Sadly, my conclusion is that using an iPad in China doesn’t quite replace my laptop,...

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April 6, 2010

Travel Tip: How To Survive A Train Ride In China With Children

You’re in China! As part of your off-the-beaten-path, bespoke experience to the Middle Kingdom, you are taking a 12 (or 15, 18, 24, 36…) hour train ride in China from point A to point B,...

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February 3, 2010

Co-operation the Key to Environmental Success

I have now entered my final week of work for Changqing Reserve. Not surprisingly, I am feeling a mixture of emotions leaving the place that has become home for me for some time now: Firstly...

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January 27, 2010

Spending some time with a Giant Panda in the wild!

It’s happened!! After months of learning about Giant Pandas, seeing videos about them, writing blogs about them, and constructing an Action Plan to minimise the impact of tourism to them – I have seen a...

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January 20, 2010

Infrared Cameras in Changqing Reserve

Photo of Giant Panda taken in Changqing Reserve by one of the infrared cameras Over the Christmas and New Years period I was blessed to have two of my good friends from back home come...

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December 4, 2009

Henan: The Home of Kung Fu

Kung fu is synonymous with China. Not unlike giant pandas, dumplings, Mao, The Great Wall and Qingdao beer … eventually, it will creep into conversation. Perhaps this has become even more the case since 2008,...

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December 3, 2009

Walking in the Footsteps of Dinosaurs in Gansu Province

Pandas and dragons are the creatures most commonly associated with China, and yet this vast and fascinating country was also once home to yet another legendary creature: dinosaurs. With paleontological digs happening in Zhucheng, Gobi...

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November 20, 2009

WildChina Twitter Live Q+A, Question 5: Traveling by Train through China

There are some who say that one cannot truly experience life as a local without traveling by train through China. Indeed, it is a sometimes harrowing, but often entertaining, experience that provides a unique and...

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November 18, 2009

Winter has arrived in Changqing!

Winter has arrived! Well… according to the Chinese calendar that is. If following our Gregorian Calender we still have another 13 days to go…however, here in the Qinling Mountains, I have no doubt the weather...

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November 11, 2009

North China is Hit by Blizzard

This year’s transition from Autumn to winter is already turning out to be one of superlatives. This week, northern China experienced its heaviest snowfall in the last half century. Not since 1955 has one tempest...

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