Good Idea For Trip, Schrute2011
[QUOTE=Schrute2011]I am a young ABC and looking to go on about a two week trip in China this summer. My mandarin skills are pretty good and I should be able to get around fine.
My budget for travel/lodging/mongering would be from $2000 to $3000 USD. Is this plan doable? I plan to backpack some
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Sounds wonderful. Wish I were 30 years younger and could go too. I'd travel by train (I am not sure I would travel by long distance bus if I were a "young ABC"). And I'd stay at cheaper hotels (50 to 150 RMB). I'd also have another hobby (like finding out about a local legend, searching for interesting stones, looking for microscopic spores or seeds in the breaks of ancient walls). When younger I have been at times, a History Scholar, a Geologist and an Agronomist.
Good luck. And tell us about your good fortune.
Go to UB to protect the Horde
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Ola Wong reports for the Far Eastern Economic Review on the rise of anti-Chinese nationalism in Mongolia (h/t Danwei.org):
In Mongolia, anti-Chinese sentiment has taken a nasty turn. The ultra-nationalist group Blue Mongolia, for example, shaves the heads of women caught sleeping with Chinese men. It is for their own good, says Gansuren Damdinsuren, a Blue Mongolia board member. A small nation can only survive by keeping its blood pure.
Mr. Gansuren claims Blue Mongolia has more than 2,000 members, not a small number in a nation of just 2.8 million. Even more alarming, Mr. Gansuren says his group is not adverse to violence. In an interview last summer, he told me his organization is training a fighting force for close combat, and that the group has access to weapons. [/quote]
We may need to send ISG troops up north to make sure the Mongolian Sisters don't get tempted to sleep with Chinese men... :eek:
Tankuki