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        <title><![CDATA[WORLD DISCOVERY ADDICT]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This blog tell about my travels all around the world, discovering islands, lagoons, active volcanoes, cities and meeting people.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[OLD CITY OF SHANGHAI AND YU GARDEN]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:42:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[In the eastern part of central Shanghai, was in the past the Chinese city. To protect itself from possible invasion, a wall was surrounding the city. It survived, while the foreign concessions in Shanghai settled. In 1911, during the revolution it was... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[SHANGHAI, LE BUND A MUST TO SEE]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:35:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Today, if you do not know THE BUND, you do not know Shanghai. This is a place where you can almost grasp the entire history of the city. First the BUND word meaning "muddy dock" itself gives an idea of what could be Shanghai to its origins. Located in... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[NANJING ROAD THE HEART OF SHANGHAI]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 17:23:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[After the Opium War, this part of Shanghai belonged to the British Concession, then to the International Concession. Nanjing road became the commercial thoroughfare where any goods for inland China, mainly Nanjing were transiting. So, it’s quite naturally... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[TEA CEREMONY IN CHINA]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:11:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[In the old City of Shanghai, an attraction is the Zigzag Bridge and the tea house in the middle of the lake, where you can attend a tea ceremony by Chinese custom which seems nothing to do with Japanese one. The teapot is then filled with water and the... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[THE CHINESE FRESHWATER PEARLS]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[China is undoubtedly the leader in the production of freshwater pearls, it must be said that Chinese history refers to the use of pearls since more than 2200 years BC. In Shanghai, jewelry displays offer necklaces and bracelets which always attract the... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[ABOUT JADE AND PIXIU ANIMAL IN CHINA]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[When you visit Shanghai, our attention is inevitably drawn to the shops and stores exposing all kinds of objects in jade with colors ranging from white to dark green. There is a Chinese proverb which say:”we can value the gold, but jade is invaluable”.... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[VISITING THE FRENCH CONCESSION IN SHANGHAI]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:32:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Now I walk in the streets of the French Concession. I discover here an atmosphere quite different and I understand the reasons, when a guide explained to me the history of the place, that I would return to you, here in a condensed form. The principle... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[SHANGHAI, THE JADE BUDDHA TEMPLE]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[This temple is located north of Shanghai and is an active monastery where you can see some monks busy At the time of the Qing dynasty, between 1875 and 1908, an abbot from mont Putuo went on pilgrimage to Tibet and joined the Burma. There, a Chinese installed... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[SHANGHAI, THE YUN FENG THEATRE SHOW]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:36:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[This evening the hotel concierge recommended me to watch the spectacle of theater YUN FENG located 15mins walk from my hotel on Beijing Road. Currently, a team of young acrobats makes a representation and knowing the ability of the Chinese in this type... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[ITACURUCA ISLAND, SAMBA CITY AND CARNIVAL SHOW]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://discovery44.canalblog.com/archives/2009/02/12/12427295.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[During this stay, we had planned to spend one or two days on Ilha Grande, a small island south of Rio, known for its beautiful beaches and the ban of cars, which gives it a perfectly cool atmosphere and scenery. Unfortunately the weather was too hesitating... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[RIO DE JANEIRO, SANTA CRUZ FORTRESS AND COMTEMPORAIN ART MUSEUM]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:02:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[From the top of Sugar Loaf, I felt the urge to cross the Guanabara Bay by the 14km bridge which joins Niteroi. Niteroi also has two interesting sites to visit: the Santa Cruz fortress and the museum of contemporary art. With a friendly German guide, Lysa,... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[RIO DE JANEIRO, THE TIJUCA FOREST]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 09:46:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[After some days in Copacabana tumult we were hoping for more peaceful and more greenery. Despite its size, Rio has the particularity to have said it, the largest urban forest in the world: the Tijuca Forest. After colonization, the Portuguese settlers... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[DISCOVER SHANGHAI MUSEUM]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:21:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[For over 5 years I have been regularly in Shanghai for business unfortunately, I never had the opportunity to visit this so active city. At each of my visits I was always amazed by an increasing number of cranes busy around buildings under construction.... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[ALONG THE BEACHES OF RIO DE JANEIRO]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 17:57:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Coming to Rio without making the round of the beaches having made the reputation of the city would be a sacrilege. In the most central part of the city, are actually 7 main beaches. Flamengo beach along the Guanabara Bay about 1500m long with at its end... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[DISCOVER RIO DE JANEIRO BOTANIC GARDEN]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 17:28:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The weather is little bit hesitating today and we decide to visit the botanical garden just nearby the Rodrigo de Freitas Lake at the foothills of the Tijuca forest. To access there, the simplest way is to take a taxi (fare: 12Reals from Copacabana) The... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[RIO DE JANEIRO, CLIMBING CORCOVADO AND SUGAR LOAF]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:26:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The hotel atrium is bathed in sunlight this morning. The weather is promising. Our today program includes two inescapable visits of Rio: Corcovado and Sugar Loaf. Around 9h a.m., a minibus pick up us; we join the Rodrigo de Freitas Lake and take the tunnel... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[RIO DE JANEIRO  WALKING IN THE HISTORICAL CENTER]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://discovery44.canalblog.com/archives/2009/01/28/12260385.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:14:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[December, the gloom sets in, and as we often feel an overriding need light and sun. A small trip in a region more conducive to remove the spleen, appears increasingly necessary. It's decided, we target South America, it's spring in Rio, the crowd of the... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[MOST OF MY TRAVELS]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://discovery44.canalblog.com/archives/2009/01/28/12260298.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:08:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[PLANISHPERE HERE ABOVE SHOWS THE COUNTRIES VISITED. THIS BLOG WILL OFFER FOR EACH OF THEM, PICTURES, FEELINGS AND SOMETIMES PRACTICAL INFORMATION Sicily and Aeolian Islands, Canary Islands, Greece, Santorini, Japan, Indonesia (Sumatra, Java, Bali), Ethiopia,... ]]></description>
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