Our journey on Google map

You can see where we travelled so far on the interactive header that I've just painfully added on top of the page. You can move it about and zoom it in or out. Looking at it, it looks like we've travelled for thousands of miles but in fact we're still in the same (more or less) cultural region - Mandarin-speaking Han majority (with slightly different dialects), same Northern cuisine, huge commercial boomtowns and still not the enigmatic China we've been dreaming of...

-Ihsan