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Guns? Drugs? LONELY PLANETS?

A travel blog entry by youngtravellers

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... became slightly more menacing. "Would you show them to me please?" Here I realized that I'd forgotten a small detail. China doesn't like Lonely Planet books. At least, China doesn't like China Lonely Planet books. Something ...

Death to all Hekou Border Guards

A travel blog entry by chris-marianne

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... threatening behaviour, your lying to us, and now for your refusal to give your names." Pig Face :"The People's Republic of China does not recognise any International Law that we have to provide you with our identities." Me :"There's a surprise". ...

ON THE BORDER

A travel blog entry by uncleray

Hekou isn't a whole lot, just a small town that sits next to the Red River and has small electric "zoo buses" that travel the streets and collect passengers as they go along their routes. Many shops here have both Chinese and ...

Hekou

A travel blog entry by steve.brine

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I generally couldn't find a lot on the internet about the Lao Cai-Hekou crossing from Vietnam into China, and generally what I could find, was either the trip in the opposite direction. Or in hindsight, the information was slightly misleading. I caught ...

International Trade on the Chinese Border

A travel blog entry by everywhere

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... Japanese guys were headed to the rice terraces for photography. Go figure! As we excited the building we could see Hekou China beckoning...a huge Chinese arch and a new high rise to top the one on the Vietnamese side was under ...

Departing China

A travel blog entry by ensio

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Hekou, Yunnan

A travel blog entry by yushim

12 hour overnight bus to border town of ...

Hekou - zaskoczeni "na plus"

A travel blog entry by camer

... potem sprawdzal moj, a juz przy Olki chyba byl znudzony i nie sprawdzal zbyt gleboko, dzieki czemu piracka kopia lp china (wydrukowana prawdopodobnie z pdf'a) kupiona w Hanoi za 200 tys dong towarzyszy nam dalej w podrozy :). Po przejsciu granicy prawie ...

Hekou - Border town

A travel blog entry by alexbright

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Our 10hr bus ride from Kunming to Hekou was not the best. I can imagine that it probably wont be the worst though......... It entailed: A stop at a roadside cafe where maggots inhabit the toilets. Lots of very windy roads making for some very ...

Bring on China!

A travel blog entry by teapots

Took the scariest 10 minute motorbike ride of our lives from Lao Cai (Vietnam) to the border. Normally on the motorbike/scooter taxis the drivers position your big pack infront of them, however this time we had to leave them on our back. Everytime they ...

En route vers la frontiere

A travel blog entry by liviou

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Welcome to China

A travel blog entry by mrewkowski

... the locals getting quite a laugh at our expense. We managed to eat teh meal but did not get any rice (surprising since this is China after all). We got back to the bus station at 5:45 with our bus schedueled to leave at 6:00. When we bought the tickets ...

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A travel blog entry by restless

... get in a construction site...which at the end was probablt long 40km...where they are building a new superhighway that will connect china to vietnam... well we got stuck as while some diggers were removing soil from the road...and this caused me to stay ...

CHINA - some final thoughts

A travel blog entry by dna

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... about your development, grades etc, it's hard not to become a Little Emperor it seems, especially given the importance of kids in China ("children are your happiness"). Overall, I'm glad I went, but it's not a great place for a vacation, as it's ...

The Border

A travel blog entry by zedbrafish

... had promised his help in sorting stuff out. Wasn't actully anything complicated. The only thing was money - needed some dong. Banks in China won't change it cos the dong is very unstable so they tell us. But the ever helpful hotel dude had some dong that ...

Hekou

A travel blog entry by stubo

... some guy in uniform who took my passport! I had no idea what was going on but he returned it with a load of other locals 10 mins later - i think it was just some checkpoint between regions in China. I should be in Kunming at about 6.30 in the ...

The great escape

A travel blog entry by adella

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... on flights straight out of china direct to Hanoi in Vietnam, 120 pounds! So we have to get another bus to hekou? it seroiusly was the only way out of China, we were so behind schedule by now that instead of stayingin Kunming we went straight to the bus ...

Exit stage left... final thoughts

A travel blog entry by susieandpaul

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Chong'An and Border

A travel blog entry by danandmichelle

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... we boarded the bus to catch yet another overnight train. After this we boarded straight onto a public bus, which took 13 hours to the boarder town of Hekou. After some fun crossing the boarder the next day, we made our way to Sapa., ...

stuck in nowhere

A travel blog entry by karissa

one day lost waiting for a bus to ...

Hekou

A travel blog entry by mie

... a book ... that sounds unlikely though. I guess that's all for now. The only thing that really happend was that we walked to China today, everything changed but it wasn't a long or winding road and we're not that tired. Gotta drink some more beer or ...

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Guns? Drugs? LONELY PLANETS?

Death to all Hekou Border Guards

ON THE BORDER

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International Trade on the Chinese Border

Departing China

Hekou, Yunnan

Hekou - zaskoczeni "na plus"

Hekou - Border town

Bring on China!

En route vers la frontiere

Welcome to China

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CHINA - some final thoughts

The Border

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The great escape

Exit stage left... final thoughts

Chong'An and Border

stuck in nowhere

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