24th
Tumblr blocked in China
It turns out that someone in China’s Internet censoring department has decided to block Tumblr.com - the site this travel blog is hosted on. Anyways, it’s pretty crappy, but now I’m limited to posting to this via SSH tunnel. Hence the reason there’s been no updates.
On to bigger and better things. I’m in Beijing, I’ve had the duck, walked the wall, and seen the perserved corpse of Chairman Mao. It’s my first upclose experience with human taxidermy, but I was a little disspointed that they chose to use the “sound asleep” position, rather than opting for a more active pose such as “Chairman Mao enjoys a game of badmitton”.
It’s also the cheapest and shortest tour I’ve been on so far. You pay 1 yuan(14cents US), get shuffled quickly by Mao, and then exit into a room where you can buy a number of Mao trinkets and gifts, including the ubiquitous Chairman Mao watch.
It’s freezing here and hopefully I’ll have more to update tomorrow.
Zài Jiàn