Fang Yuan Hotel Guiyang

... here, Guiyang at 6pm, for a taxi driver to then take us round the block (and about 2 doors away from the bus station we got off at!) to our hotel for 10yuan, nevermind.
The hotel is clean, with aircon and a soft bed (3 things that your lucky to get in a chinese hotel) the bathroom is completely covered in plastic. It is literally a porta-loo cabin complete with sink, bath and step in shower, just placed in the corner of the ...

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 ...

... all sorts!!! - anything you can put on a skewer really! and they bbq it with this delicious sauce and then bring them all to your table and you can eat which ever ones you want!!!
it's great! anyway, hope you are all well...sorry for the lack of blogs...I will update later when I have some reliable internet and can work out how to type not in chinese symbols!!! bye for now!~

p.s. - netball and footy results sounded good...Go Peake! I ...

... barps' and we were off on a hair-raising ride through the rush hour traffic including a u-turn generating the loudest response yet. Somehow we arrived at the hotel having just lost sight of the taxi, but luckily we spotted Helen on the footpath waving her piece of paper at us, and not a scratch on the truck. A close one but we are now in a nice newish bright and clean pub, on the 16th floor, laughing at the cacophony below. It is chaos out there and we are off for a bite.

... 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 ...

... and got some great street food for dinner. I made all the grill boys really happy by giving them each one of my British cigarettes (they had never seen one before, not to mention never meeting a British person before!) (OK Americans, I'm living here on my British passport so I sometimes call myself British now. Technically, it's true and the 'where are you from?' question is getting more and more complicated... though with the recent change in administration in the ...

... 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 ...

... with strange names and shapes, beautiful colour illumination to enhance the incredible effects of the stones and rocks. More than 2 and a half hours walking inside the cave, and only explored a 20% of it. Incredible. It was really worth! It's almost 3 o'clock, so we are hungry and our guide also, and have an splendid lunch. Then, another 4 hours of road torture towards Guiyang ...

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... with chicken. The contributions that make normal thanksgiving/Christmas dinner possible, if anyone is curious, are canned cranberry sauce, dream whip (powder that you add milk and it makes whipped cream), and canned pumpkin pie filling. For Christmas, we can get a ham with the help of our Chinese friend, so that will be nice. Unlike thanksgiving, Christmas is celebrated here. It's not exactly the same, but it's around. Wal ...