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	<title>Sergiu Ţurcanu&#187; Travel</title>
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		<title>Pictures of Palcho (Palkor) Monastery in Tibet</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2010 18:28:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sergiu Turcanu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Photo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tibet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buddha]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[burrial]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Palchoi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Palkor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photographs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[praying wheel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[statues]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Palkor Monastery (sometimes referred to as Palcho, or Palchoi Monastery) was built in 1418 by the first Panchen Kezhugyi and took 10 years to complete. It is located on the outskirts of Gyantse and accommodates four different Buddhist sects: Gelug, Gagyu, Sagya and Nyingma, which is rare in Tibet. Each sect has its own praying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Palatul lui Dimitrie Cantemir din Constantinopol</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:08:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sergiu Turcanu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Acum vreo şase ani în urmă când mă aflam la Istanbul şi urmam cursurile de limbă turcă de la İstanbul Ünıversitesi aveam în grupă un australian care îmi zicea că a văzut el pe undeva o lespede pe care scria ceva de Moldova, dar nu îşi putea aminti unde anume şi nici ce scria pe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mooncakes and the Mid-Autumn Day Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 13:43:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sergiu Turcanu</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[cakes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chinese]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Houyi & Chang'e]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mid-Autumn Festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[moon]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[yue bing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[濿饼]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have to confess, I&#8217;m a big fan of mooncakes! For those of you who don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s a mooncake &#8211; Mooncake (濿饼; pinyin: yuè bĭng) is a traditional Chinese pastry eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival and it comes in all kinds of shapes, sizes and fillings. It&#8217;s nothing like the traditional pastry we are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meet the Beijing Olympic Mascots &#8211; FuWa&#8217;s</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sergiu Turcanu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s for the first time when instead of the usual one character for the Olympic mascot we&#8217;ve got a bunch of them. It seems that the Chinese want to impress with everything at these Olympic Games and they designed 5 cute characters to represent the 2008 Olympics. The designer of the 2008 Olympic mascots is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plan and seats of the Olympic Stadium in Beijing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sergiu Turcanu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote a review about the Olympic Stadium in Beijing some time ago and noticed that people also find this article when looking for the Beijing Olympic Stadium plan or trying to get a look at the Olympic Stadium seats. Since there&#8217;s no actual plan of the stadium presented in my previous review and there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Grand Theater of China, Beijing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sergiu Turcanu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[?家大??]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[National Grand Theater of China which is sometimes referred to as Beijing Opera House, but is nicknamed &#8220;The Egg&#8221; is actually officially called &#8211; National Centre for Performing Arts (国家大剧院). It is one of the new landmarks of the city which is located in the very heart of it, right next to Great Hall of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ever wondered what&#8217;s on the other side of the earth?</title>
		<link>http://sergiu.turcanu.net/ever-wondered-whats-on-the-other-side-of-the-earth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sergiu Turcanu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Funny Bits]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever thought what is on the opposite side of the earth? Imagine drilling a hole through the earth to the other side, you get the picture? I was wondering about that a long time ago, but get to see who lives on the other side just recently. First I had to find out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My neighborhood getting ready for the Olympics!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sergiu Turcanu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beijing is getting ready for the 2008 Olympics and the atmosphere of the Olympic Games approaching is everywhere. Even in my quiet neighborhood now you can see the red banners welcoming the games. It is quite funny actually, because they also translated the banners into English in an attempt to share the moment with laowai&#8216;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The new Wanshang Hotel in Beijing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:49:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sergiu Turcanu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone who&#8217;s been in Beijing with the Carnival remembers the &#8220;Wanshang Garden Hotel&#8221; we stayed in 2004 and 2005. I was just happened to pass by around Babaoshan area in Beijing and that is the hotel I discovered. It is no longer the Wanshang we used to know and it is even called differently now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beijing National Olympic Stadium (Bird&#8217;s Nest) Review</title>
		<link>http://sergiu.turcanu.net/beijing-national-olympic-stadium-birds-nest-review/</link>
		<comments>http://sergiu.turcanu.net/beijing-national-olympic-stadium-birds-nest-review/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:25:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sergiu Turcanu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[??京?家???]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[鳥巢]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost 2 weeks ago I had a chance to visit the newly built pride and beauty of the 2008 Beijing summer Olympics &#8211; Beijing National Stadium (??京?家???), also known as &#8220;Bird&#8217;s Nest&#8221; (鳥巢) during the hosting of &#8220;Good Luck Beijing 2008 SOHU.COM China Athletics Open&#8221;. It was a kind of audition before the Olympic Games [...]]]></description>
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