Holiday Inn Guiyang

Sara:<br><br>...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!<br><br>We got here after a horrific 10 hour bus journey, it is very hot, about 33 degrees. <br><br>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<br>We are in China!<br>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!<br>We took the bus to Kaili - 2.5 hours, new road (you pay for passing it).<br>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!!!<br>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!~ <br><br>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!<br><br>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!<br><br ...

Am I the only one to feel a little uncomfortable about this exoticizing of a person by Chinese . . . Tourism official becomes an attraction herself As the deputy director of a county tourism bureau in Guizhou province, A Xiang-yi's job is to attract as many people as possible to her home region. The underdeveloped Leishan county is home to people of various ethnic groups, of which Miao people account for 83.5 percent of the residents. But in the past week, the 26-year-old ethnic ...

In our daily walk before breakfast, Monika joins a Taiqi group, and I play badminton for sme minutes with local people at the park. Then some poor breakfast, a quick shower and head for our first visit: Qingyan Old Town. A typical scenery of chinese ancient films, a grey wall sorrounding the town, small buldings with inner terraces, narrow stony streets...and the non-stopping rain. We must buy an umbrella and Michael also to continue the visit ...

We must check out at 8:00, because we need more than 3 hours to cover 145 km from Anshun to Zhijin, where te biggest karst cave in China is waiting for us. The roads are a torture, but we hope it will be worth all the suffering. We are visiting Daji cave, an enormous area under a mountain, with many huge "rooms", in which football grounds should fit widely. Lots of different karstic ...

... rather dilapidated contraption resembling a bicycle on Sunday lunchtime felt so good I wish it could have gone on forever. I'm always happy next to water, and the green of the immaculately (by China's standards) kept local produce and the elegant arches of the bridge across the bridge were enough to make you forget city life completely. As ever, on such occasions, time flies, but I will always fondly remember having those moments because right then they were just what I needed.

... tickets it was too late to go that day. We headed into town, stopping briefly to watch the entire staff from a large department store doing their morning exercises out on the pavement. At least they had a sense of humour about it, looking a bit sheepish when we started taking piccies. Then we hit (the ever-present) renmin square. As I said, we weren't expecting much from Guiyang, so it made the time we ...