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India has never been high on our travel plan until we joined Karma Group. They started in India and has 5 or 6 resorts there. We start with a 3 day stay at Karma Haveli in Jaipur with a day trip to Taj Mahal. Finish with 2 weeks in Karma Haathi Mahal and Karma Royal Palm in South Goa.
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Gold star in the northwest is Jaipur. Gold star way south is Goa.
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Part of the state of Goa. We are staying in South Goa, the gold star.
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A wonderful family lunch at a fantastic hot-pot restaurant call "From the Bottom of the Sea". Backrow: Duan Duan (Nanqi's niece), Little Cloud (Nanqi's sister, Duan Duan's mom), HaiNing (Cloud's husband), Duan Duan's son, Dui (Duan Duan's husband), Dui's sister with her son. Front row: Nanqi's mom, Nanqi, Steve, and Dui's father.
We spent 5 days in Xian visting with family, eating way too much wonderful food, and spent a moving and emotional hour visiting Nanqi's father grave.
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Mom and daughters: Little Cloud and Little Mao (Nanqi)
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Nanqi at about age 22 with her parents and sister, Little Three
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A visit to Nanqi's father's grave.
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Cleaning Dad's tombstone
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Cleaning the tombstone was a sober group effort
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The ritual burning of paper money at the gravesite is a spiritual way of sending money to the deceased, so they will not suffer in the afterworld
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Top right block of text: From YuShu county JiLin province. Born May 29th in Chinese Lunar calendar year 1928. Died October 28th 2004. Middle block: Father You RongWu Bottom left block text (from right to left vertical): Daughters: You NanQi ,You XiangQi, You ChangQi; Spouses: Steven, Li HaiNing, Zhang XiHua; Grandchildren: Yuan YAYA, Li Duan, You Long, Zhang BoHeng. Placed on site with respect on 21st of October 2005.
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Birthday Boy Steve
We arrived in ShenZhen about 9AM, after an overnight flight from Goa to Delhi to Hong Kong. But that lack of sleep didn't get in the way of a dinner celebrating Xinhua's birthday with a group of his friends. He was born in 1970, meaning he is legally 49 years old this year; however, many Chinese start the count 1 year earlier, during the time in the womb - meaning he is now 50 - that is a big deal!! Loads of delicious food and way too much to drink made for a great time; the only casualty was Xinhua's memory - he remembers nothing of the later part of the evening, hahaha. And since he drove us to the restaurant we had to hire a driver to get us all back home.
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Xiahua, Nanqi, and Little Three Steve
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Birthday Cake Steve
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Friends having a great time Steve
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Lobster and Salmon. The lobster meat, served raw, is almost clear and served on the pedestal of crushed ice. Absolutely the best lobster I've ever had. And the salmon was also outstanding. Steve
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Wonderful whole fish Steve
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Excellent wine - we drank 5 bottle of this wine, plus another bottle brought by a friend. We then had one of these left after the party and drank it as a nightcap when we got home. Xinhua missed the nightcap...LOL Steve
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Maotai, a famous Chinese white liquor, is loved by many here - don't really work for me. But in addition to the 6 total bottles of wine consumed, 2 bottles of this were consumed. Steve
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Xinhau and friends singing us a song. Steve
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Xinhau a bit messy with the cake - and some help from a friend. Steve
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Xinhua and I as the evening was winding down. Steve
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Xinhua was about done by this time - I think I am mostly holding him up...hahaha Steve
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Japan
We didn't stay in Japan other than an overlay at Norita Airport. Yet, the difference is: we stayed in the 9H (9 Hour) capsole hotel.