Anshun
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Under the Waterfall and Back Again
... headdresses and elaborate Miao are novelty items shrewdly rented to the hordes of tourists who come to Huang Guo Shu-China's, maybe Asia's, largest waterfall. The Miao, the largest local minority, have beautiful traditional dress, but the ...
How Can They Sit While the Bus is Burning?
... streets, watched a dragon dance procession doing some rituals for the new year and then got back on another bus and headed back to Anshun. As sometimes happens when traveling, you set out but never arrive. * * * The next day we went back to Guiyang ...
A barrage of Batiks
... 30 to 50 depending on the size) we decided to leave the house and try our luck at a store in the bigger town of Anshun where we could bargain a little. Mom left first, then Dad. Dan turned around while we were still inside and asked the lady one last ...
Ch Ch Ch Chi(n)a!
Someone in Guizhou got the idea to make Chia pets out of a nylon, ribbons, rubber bands, and googly eyes, and sell them at the outdoor market. I bought one about a week ago and it's doing pretty good. I call him Rui, which is Chinese for King, due ...
next stop, guiyong
A lot has happened since my last post. I haven't posted lately because the power around our school has been off in the afternoons (when Jenn and I have some free time). Our first class has ended. The last day we took our students on a picnic. The ...
Back from Anshun
... have the coat now, although I wish we had gotten them a week earlier. We celebrated Halloween with about a dozen other volunteers in Anshun, which is a two hour train ride away. It must be quite a bit higher in elevation, as well, because it was about ...
Anshun
Staying in this lovely city as a base to visiting near by super touristic attractions of the ...
Day 18 - jour 18
... touched the heart of a hotel's receptionist. Finally a bed! Jour 18 : lundi 22 octobre 2007 Kaili- Anshun (Guizhou province) Odometer: 3302-3570 (268km) Nous quittâmes notre chambre aux cafards tôt le matin, ...
Yellow Fruit Village Waterfall
... witness to the rehearsal of acts and performances to be held in a couple of days. They had people from all different minority villages around China come and perform and dress up. It was almost too good to be true and a lot of them did look rather fake but ...
The Wonderful Longgong Caves Adventure
... to the Longgong Caves takes you high into the local mountains and through some of the most splendidly lush green rice fields in the Anshun area. If I had of arrived to find the caves closed I think I would have remained smiling. As I’m writing this ...
The Wonderful Huangguoshu Waterfalls
... the first five meters from getting off the bus. The Huangguoshu Waterfalls are found around forty five kilometers southwest of Anshun city and along with some eighteen other minor falls create the Huangguoshu cluster and they along with the several ethic ...
Cobble Stone Streets & Karst Limestone Peaks
... famous as a producer of batiks, kitchen knives and the lethal Anjiu brand alcohol. As the center of south China’s karst geography, Anshun has an abundance of rivers, waterfalls, gorges, caves, stone forests, lakes and underground rivers. There are ...
The Bowling Alley
This might seem funny, but I wanted to post a couple shots of the bathroom where we stayed. ...
Be prepared for paying & waiting
... be banned and the ticket price include transport on frequent park buses, the only allowed form of transport. We came back here to Anshun completely exhausted from walking (even with the taxi, you are guaranteed to do a lot of walking to and from the ...
Les plus belles du monde
Oui, vous avez bien lu le titre. Je me suis arrete pour voir les plus belles du monde! Les plus belles chutes, et les plus belles cavernes! En Chine, tout est le plus beau du monde, toujours. En tout cas, selon les ...
Terrible mountain roads.
... we have to drive for more than 4 hours again in the same kind of roads than yesterday. So painful for our backs, but nice views of the rural life in China. We arrive in Anshun, check in at the hotel and got to have some supper before having a great ...
Wenmiao and Wet Weather
... our tickets back to Guiyang. We found there were no seats left for the morning train, but booked anyway rather than wait around in Anshun until 6:30 p.m. We don't know where to get buses and don't like the sound of the bus ride. Surely we can stand up ...
Day 26; an electric carriage trip around the Stone
... created by wind and water erosion some 270 millions years ago. We enter Guizhou Province, one of the most undeveloped and sparsely populated areas in China, famous for Maotai liqueur. Huangguoshu is China's biggest waterfall. Huangguoshu Hotel *** 580 ...
Ville étape
Arrival in Anshun
... further during the day if only the rain keeps off. The little girl assured us though that it will rain for the next two days! Our impression of Anshun is that it's a pleasant, friendly town - no beggars sighted so far, too. Raymond's Travel ...
Caves and Waterfalls
We got a wake-up call for 7:30, and went across the square to last night's restaurant where the lady and the daughter were still asleep while her husband was on duty. A bit slower-moving than his wife, but he cooked me a very nice fried rice and Yoong a ...
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