Gudao Yifeng Hostel Guiyang

... br>The best bit about yesterday has to be that Tom went out looking for dinner whilst i grabbed a shower, and when he came back, he had chips and sausage! We have eaten nothing but noodles and rice with spicy food stuffs for 10 days to finally have something mildly english, was amazing. Even if the chips were under-cooked, and the sausage over-cooked. Oh well.

We're off to Kunming today on a train, heading south to Laos.

... and a little old, a typical Chineese place. Nobody speaks English and all the signs are in Chineese(which is their second language, after the Miao language), anyway: we manage.
Today at 9 Billy came and took us to thr CITS office, gave us good information. We go at 12:30 to a Miao village, Xijiang, where we'll spend the night. Tomorrow we'll return' pick the luggage and continue to the south.
We found this internet cafe ...

... thinking of home and the games going on a lot of time on saturday!

pps - anyone...? how are the snowdogs going?!?!? alright?? :)

ppps - Pat and Gus - Hope your 21st went really well...if you happen to read this!

Later....
we went out for lunch with CD, the maganger of the bar last night...this was cooll...there's lots and lots of little dishes filled with different vegetables spread over the table....you get a small, thin ...

... spooky. Helen, our guide, was obviously quite bemused at this unusual stopover and sent a pic' to her boss of the Crazy Cables!

More mountains and another, even longer and taller suspension bridge under completion. Later we stopped for lunch. We were glad that Helen didn't take us to the restaurant next to us as it served dog! We are in the Guizhou Province where dog is the provincial delicacy. We leave this province tomorrow, so the dogs are safe for now!

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... tourism director", marveling at her beauty and dubbing her "a lotus surfacing above crystal-clear water". "You can't find such natural glamor in an office employee," a netizen wrote. A Xiang-yi works at her birthplace, a 1,000-household Miao village in Xijiang town famous for its ancient ethnic architecture. She told China Daily on Thursday that she had "mixed feelings" over the sudden rise to fame. "I'm very happy that people like me, but I'm also worried that some people ...

... to see there, a waste of time. Buy some fruit and sweets for supper in the train, and we are left at Guiyang train station, among milions of chinese people. The train has no closed cabins, and we must sleep in the beds in the middle of the corridor, more than 80 persons per wagon. This will really be an experience. Tomorrow we arrive in Guilin, after more than 17 hours in the train. I wonder if it is worth saving the hotel to suffer all this.

... capital of the province. Check in, a short walk, and buy something for supper in a supermarket: some dehidrated noodles, to which you only have to add some boiling water to cook them. Very cheap and tasty! It's been almost 1 week since we saw last non chinese person! Incredible, we thought we would find thousands of tourists everywhere, visiting China during Olympics, but we were wrong.

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... another region. Here was no exception as we sat down for what seemed like the 10th meal of the day in pleasant surroundings. Of course, I exaggerate, but a fascination with food is something I'm going to have to learn to understand here. I enjoy my food, of course, but just not enough to make a holiday out of it. You can't get past the importance, nay obsession with food here in China though. Perhaps it comes down to a question of values placed on time. I will ...

... sat on, but not slept in. So we were pretty happy with how the whole exercise worked out - from no seats to half a carriage to ourselves. Not quite as social, but beats 20hrs of hard seats pretty easily. And sure as hell beats having a screaming kid next to your ear. No other remarkable events on the journey. Chewed our way through a few books and lounged around until our train arrived at the slightly ...