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Follow that Fire Engine

karen — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 09:21:31 +0000

One of the exciting groups this year is the Fire Engine group. It’s my honor to be their consultant and in-country agent. The 100% present charity tour with the Fire Engine traveling around the world, what a fantastic thing for me in 2010.

For more information, please visit their website: The group informative on-line recorded. Here I will not ramble on too much. Paul was so lovely to put my information online, it’s a good advertise and also a great pressure J as I always think he gave out the praise too much earlier. Fortunately, everything is so smooth, and we have very happy memory the 3 days in Chengdu. They even went to the guides’ Sunji’s hometown in Leshan and have the local family with the guide’s parents there. I bet they must be the super stars all the journey in China.
I remember they contacted me in Oct last year, Ben came to Chengdu to visit me. I was just back from Thailand, Met Ben in the office and his Chinese is brilliant. Honestly, the situation was not very optimistic at that time, because special vehicles are not allowed to enter China. The process also like what paul wr0te in this blog page

Thanks to everyone’s efforts, and finally get this Fire Engine into China, then sent out very smoothly throughout.

Now this activity continues, we can continue to focus on going.

All member of Follow that Fire Engine, Merry Christmas~~~

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Sichuan to Tibet railway section

karen — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:16:34 +0000

At this moment, i nearly can’t remember the thing happened last year of my trip to Tibet. However, i will try to provide the necessary information.

As most foreigners may aware, the foreigner need to get the Tibet entrance permits to get into Tibet. So first you have to choose a in-country agent to help deal with this thing. Here i would like to update news that the foreigners may not need to apply the Tibet entrance permits if they don’t visit any scenery spot in Tibet. This feedback was from my guide last year in a self-driving tour group. He said there were 3 foreigners drove the bike from Lhasa to Zhangmu and they take trains from Chengdu to Lhasa. I doubt their words, however, the things is very complex at this moment. I’m not sure if the foreigner can get into Tibet without permits. So far as I know, even the chinese, we need to show our ID card with the train tickets together before getting on the train, and also, the train station staff will take the picture of both the ID card as well as the train tickets.

So Let’s back to the railway journey on the train. From Chengdu to Tibet,it can be divided into two parts,Sichuan to Shanxi ( none Tibet section) Xining-Lhasa (Tibet area section). I find out some information on the wiki Qingzang railway. This railway is known as the highest altitude railway on earth.

some pictures on the rail way.

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Don’t drove me to much- Sichuan-Tibet

karen — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 07:41:22 +0000

With the simple words, and short paragraph I can’t make me fully understand. So don’t drove me to much

Last month i went to Tibet with my father and it’s a marvelous experience. I recommoned my father as a driver that can go with me to drive the Prado 4×4 vehicle back to Chengdu from Lhasa. And we really make it.

First we took train from Chengdu~

to be continue (forgive me~i would really appreciate that i have a chair at this moment)