Eastern Hawaii Hotel Beihai

We actually arrived in Dongxing (Chinese border) on Sunday night. Thtis was quite worrying as our guide book told us that there are only 3 border crossings to Vietnam from China and this wasn't one of them. In fact this whole town has been completely missed from the guide book! Where are we!!!!! No body in this town speaks English, even the main...

We left Ha Long Bay this morning and continued east and entered China. We are at a stop over and will head to the docks in Macau to send our trucks home tomorrow. We are 577 kilometers from there and the Avalanche is ready to go home and it has done its job and carried us about 6,000 miles in 30 days with little or no trouble. We will head tomor...

Islands are expensive, but camping is cheap. After about a week on a few islands you really appreciate the sound of the ocean over the constant honking of cars and motorbikes. We always find a way to take the most inefficient route of transportation it seems, though we get to our destination just the same, this time it took a day longer. It also...

I am in Qinzhou City. My grandmother was born in a village in the prefecture of Qinzhou. Chinese cities apparently don't often just mean the city itself, but also the surrounding area, I think.. I think here, it's divided into towns and then villages. My grandma is from White Pigeon Village, somewhere in the rural parts around here, and I'm goin...

Les lumieres de la ville s'eloignent peu a peu. Au dessus de ma tete je percois quelques ronflements discrets. Il fait chaud, j'ai deja mal au dos. Etendu sur le matelas de mousse, j'avale une melatonine que j'espere salvatrice. Je suis dans un bus-couchette en direction du Vietnam. Je tate mes pieds, de petites racines chinoises commencent a po...

After a couple of days in beautiful Guilin with its intra-city parks of man made lakes and rivers I am now in Yangshou. Yangshou, a small town by the Li River, is well-known for its super natural landscape. With comfortable climate, ever green vegetation, abundant rivers and jade-like hills, it is reputed as the fairyland under heaven. Thus goes...

Beihai is a small city, but there is a beach named the silve beach which is called the best silve beach in China. It's 2 hours by train from the capital city of Nanning as they both in the same province. I have been there several times, but this time as i have this travel blog, so i just gonna to write something. and show some pics as i took a b...

We had an early start from our beautiful guesthouse to the local bus station, where we would continue our journey to Liuzhou. We were thinking we'd be travelling rough, as we had started using local public buses rather than private minivans, and we weren't sure of what the standard would be. The first bus journey was about 2 hours, a normal stan...

The Occidental Tourist (Part 2) So after a lot of confusion, pointing, gesticulating and the occasional bout of swearing we had finally reached our initial destination, the bus depot in Nanning. This was a not-inconsiderable-accomplishment as achieving this objective was going to permit us to (hopefully) reach our primary destination; Beihai, fo...

The Occidental Tourist (Part 1) On Friday, February the 5th we took a train from Guigang to the 'Green City', Nanning is the provincial capital of Guangxi and has a population of over 1.3 million. In China, this time of year is referred to as Spring Festival and it is a huge national holiday, it is similar to Christmas in the west and it is the ...