Baoli International Hot Spring Hotel Guiyang

Sara:

...Seriously people think it is acceptable to hock up disgusting things and spit all over the floor, wether that be in the street, a cafe, bus, or train, people spit everywhere here!

We got here after a horrific 10 hour bus journey, it is very hot, about 33 degrees.

The bus seemed to have a problem with its suspension, and we were sitting over the back wheels going up, down and around rocky mountains. We ...

Hi - 17/8 Arrival at Kaili
We are in China!
We had spent 30 hours of 3 flights - all good, specially Air Uzbekistan, then a bus to Guanyang - a big city, 1.2 million people: a modern place, 20-30 stories buildigs, wide road, full of new cars and well-dressed people. The streets look so clean, quite. Lotteries on streets!
We took the bus to Kaili - 2.5 hours, new road (you pay for passing it).
Kaili is a Miao city - looks ...

... afternoon or night time!
I don't know how people on tour do it because it's really tiring, last night people were trying to get us to come out and get food with them after the gig (this one guy was from HK, but had spent some time in Ireland so had the coolest Irish accent ever!) but we were all too exhausted and maybe a little burnt out (speaking for myself) so we just came back to the hotel...and went to sleep...we haven't been to bed before 1 ...

... too high for me. You'll recognise his finger lower left corners! He was terrified of dropping the camera.

Unfortunately, a few of the photos are fuzzy - that's because most mornings here are quite hazy, always clearing up around mid day.

Later, as we were cruising through a most spectacular mountain range we decided to pull over into a wee rest stop and boil the billy for a coffee. Wow, all those imposing mountains were so huge and we so tiny, it was ...

... has found herself at the center of national attention as a poster girl on the Internet. She has attracted more than 146,000 hits in less than a week after her photos were posted on the Internet by a photographer and blogger who goes by the name "Yuan Xing Bi Lou". The blogger was reportedly so enamored of her beauty when he visited the region that he posted five pictures of A Xiang-yi in traditional Miao costumes. Netizens have left hundreds of messages for China's "most ...

... Not much more to see here, so we decide to go back to Guiyang for some lunch. After that, a visit to the Hongfu Temple, on top of a hill in Qianling Park. Another silly visit to a budist temple. They're all the same: sculptures, incense burners... Once you've seen one, it is nonsense to visit others. Go back to Guiyang center for last visit in the province, the Jiaxiu Pavilion. A small building in the middle of the river, with nothing ...

... Sometimes the journey is better than the destination. Ana and I decided to move on and continue our journey in the morning. The minority homes are all built out of wood, a stark contrast to the cement communist boxes that the rest of China seems to live in. This brings me to another thing. There is constant construction in China. There are piles of bricks and rubble everywhere., Along this river there were mini cement factories every kilometer ...

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... through private donations to provide a library for children and adults in the Liushu, including equipment such as a television, DVD player and tape-recorder for educational purposes. Proposed finish date: Feb. 2008 Second hand cloth donation: plan to finish before Jan. 2008. General Coordinator: Cici Zheng (sissyzheng@gmail.com) Assistant Coordinators: Cammie Brennan (chinanowcommunityproject@gmail.com) pastor at Zhaotong church, Bian Laoshi and Ma Laoshi in Shimenkan

So, when I left off, I mentioned that we were going to a banquet for foreigners in Guiyang. It turned out to be really nice. It was at the five-star hotel, which is absolutely gorgeous, and the employees speak perfect, unaccented English. It has a swimming pool and a gym, which only really nice hotels have in China. The banquet was held as a buffet, which was a courtesy to foreigners who don't always like the ...