Guilong International 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 ...

... 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.

... number of Miao people in these areas converted then to this religion. Pollard was honored as a national hero in a popular folk book and named as the "Savior" of Miao People. In 1905, Pollard started building churches and schools on this desolated hillside. Within less than 50 years, Christianity's influence here helped the Miao people to overcome difficult barriers and make a substantial difference in their quality of education and ...

... one travelling in this group, very friendly retirees - the sort of people we can enjoy a conversation with. After they left, we also talked to a young couple from Hong Kong. They had a fish for lunch, but told us it wasn't fresh, so we've changed our minds about ordering one tonight. They told us the waterfall is just okay - a bit of a disappointment compared to places like Jiu Zhai Guo. Raymond's Travel Page

... a local girl who was leading the hike into the village stopped and sang a traditional song. The view was incredible and the day was misty. The song echoed in the mist and we heard music from somewhere out of the mist, presumably the village we were hiking to. We resumed hiking. Now we were descending and winding around the hills towards the village. The path became a giant slip-'n-slide and students were spending more time on their butts than they were on their feet ...