Media Ventures' Journey through China -- Fall 2008

Video travel log of places visited, highlighting what makes each destination unique

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 10:30:00 -0600

For two months Tim Boelter and Asu traveled throughout China gathering footage of life and landscape in this remarkably diverse country. This video shows our route and gives s a snapshot of footage taken along the way.

Tim's final dispatch from China

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:30:00 -0600

Once again I leave China after experiencing an extraordinary journey inside a country that changes almost monthly.

It's not just the places that make a trip so worthwhile

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:30:00 -0600

It's not just the places that make a trip so worthwhile -- it's the wonderful people that you meet along the way.

Three climbers get their butts kicked by a petite 35 year old Yao woman

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:00:00 -0500

The stone walkways have been used on for 700 years and are so polished that when they are wet they might as well be ice.

It's always good to be the lonely foreigner lost in the masses

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:00:00 -0500

We caught up with a herd of Chinese tourists being corralled through the entryway. So I joined the large band of Chinese going through the gate.

A trip that just becomes more impressive with each day

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 14:00:00 -0500

The crowd was cheering, the music was blaring, and the confetti continued to rain down. And there I was, some foreign guy in the middle of it all.

Life on the train, developing an immunity to being stared at

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:00:00 -0500

My presence seemed to spark an enormous amount of curiosity between my fellow passengers. Asu kept telling me they were guessing where I was from and if I could in fact understand what they were saying.

Hua Shan, the five sacred Taoist mountains

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:30:00 -0500

Today Asu and I made the fantastic hike up the mountain from the West Gate.

The first video from the trip, images from Dunhuang

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:00:00 -0500

See the first HD images from Tim Boelter's trip.

The amazing transformation of old China to new China

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:30:00 -0500

I think it is safe to say that the new China has arrived for good and the old China is becoming extinct—you can still see it, you just have to go further off the beaten path.

It seems all 1.3 billion people decided to go out on the town in Xian

Tues, 30 Sep 2008 16:00:00 -0500

Our trip is coinciding with one of China's large weeklong holidays, National Day. It is a mad house everywhere.

Adventure and history in the barren desert of Dunhuang

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 23:30:00 -0500

I did my best to capture footage of camels laboring over sand dunes as they plodded a course into the depths of the Gobi.

Planes, trains, buses, and babies

Tues, 23 Sep 2008 22:00:00 -0500

This would be my first long train ride where I would actually sleep in a hard sleeper cabin.

Back in China and earthquake aftershocks are already changing our plans

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 16:30:00 -0500

I was greeted with the same rain and humidity that was here in June, not to mention a little pollution added in for good measure.