Off to Dubai in the next few days.
UPDATED 26 AUGUST 2009: During its time in China, the Hong Kong coin visited the Summer Palace in Beijing, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_Palace the ‘Bird’s Nest’ Stadium in Beijing, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing_National_Stadium ‘The Peak’ in Hong Kong, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Peak the Sleeping Beauty Castle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_Beauty_Castle in Disneyland Hong Kong, http://park.hongkongdisneyland.com/hkdl/en_US/home/home?name=HomePage the Oriental TV Tower in Shanghai, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental_Pearl_Tower the Potala Palace (home of the (exiled) Dalai Lama) in Lhasa Tibet, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potala_Palace and the Mt Everest Base Camp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everest_Base_Camp the tented base camp accessible by road from Tibet. In addition, the coin visited various other monasteries as indicated by the various photo's uploaded with the cache log.
All in all the travel bug enjoyed its trip in China, and looks forward to a continued vacation in sunny Dubai, http://www.dubai.com/ after which future adventures await.
Our vacation photo's from our trip to China may be viewed at the link alongside http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=113160&id=704380740&l=29685695c0 – photo 26 in the series is from the geocaching event that we attended in Tiananmen Square, arranged by the cachers, funkymunkyzone, from New Zealand.
[This entry was edited by GeoCRAt on Wednesday, August 26, 2009 at 12:37:11 AM.]