Hawn Mandarin Inn 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.<br>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 ...

... 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.<br>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.<br>We found this internet cafe ...

... ages though....12 would be early! <br>people have been doing that at most gigs so far and they've all been really nice and its been heaps of fun to go out with them and taste the food (we seem to always have midnight meals!) and then crash after that! after the second Chongqing gig (at Nuts club) we went and got barbeque which is great!! - you choose which skewers you want...there's like potato, zucchini, mushrooms, meats, intestines, chicken skin ...

Fri.22nd May. Xingyi - Guiyang.<br><br>Off at 8am and less than 30minutes into our drive...major attractions. Suspension bridge and a waterfall of many metres at Malinghe Gorge. This very deep gorge is known as (in Chinese) the Worlds Most Beautiful Scar. To view this gorge we could have gone down in a glass sided lift but we decided to take the pic's from a rickety old bridge that the adjacent new suspension bridge will replace. Actually, Dave took those pic's - it was ...

... 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 ...

... them on many occasions since they did not understand why I wouldn't eat some of the animals that they didn't consider "meat". One night me and my "jie jie" were feeding the pigs that lived under the house and she asked me which animal was my favorite. The question was phrased in such a way that I though she meant which was the cutest-- I only knew the word for chicken; and no sooner had I said chicken than she grabbed one that was running around our ...

... 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 ...

... a local yao tribe village. was really beautiful, we found a bar and listened to the chili's while drinking baileys! ended up giving one of the waiteresses an impromtu english lesson which was great fun! from there another pukey bus ride to guilin where our packs were retrieved (thank god) and got straight on to our final overnight train to hong kong! love monica and alex xx

... if the 'seats' in such busses are supposed to mimic beds they don't. They are cramped and generally uncomfortable, and while it may be a novel idea to travel via sleeper bus in a country where long distance travel is dominated by the train, it is not something I would recommend. Sure, give it a go. I'm glad I did, but I've learnt my lesson and I'll be sticking with the trains from here on out. Killing Time There ...