Holly Bay Hotel
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'First week, new cultures and friends...'
... frustrating I find it when people say “North Wales, oh yeah, I’ve been to Snowdon…”. But anyway, 5 of us were whisked off on a 3.5hour drive to work away for 2days. The drive was great, and I’m glad I went, I had the opportunity to see the Chinese countryside en route, and it was everything I imagined. Lush green, paddy fields submerged under water, small huts on the waters edges. All around is farmland, but so ...
Hot Cupping - and we don't mean tea
... the gentle routine. What a fantastic way to start the day. Another of Sam's highlights was the Impressions show - a light and sound spectacular that really had to be seen to be believed. The backdrop is ten or so karst mountains stunningly lit and surrounding a beautiful lake (all natural). Hundreds of performers take part in this show, whether it be from the lake's edge or on one of the 100 or so bamboo rafts and pontoons that float beautifully across ...
Standing Room Only
... Lance and I are pulling ourselves up through a two foot square hole onto the roof of Heidi's apartment building. Gazing out over the darkening Zhuzhou skyline, the edges of the roof have no walls, railings or barriers of any kind and it gives me a mild case of vertigo just sitting there on its gritty surface. As if at any given second the spinning of the earth would soon tilt the building into an unfavorable slope and send us scrambling over the edge to ...
Back to China
... but after a brief conversation, our unofficial dial-a-translator told the driver where we wanted to go and we were off. A couple of hours later, after Jim paced most of the area around the station looking for a cash machine to replenish our supplies of yuan (he finally found one 3 kilometres away), we were the proud owners of two tickets for the twelve hour journey to Nanning. It's the regional capital of Guanxi province, and the next stage in our mammoth journey down ...
Dragons Backbone rice terraces
... huge bundles of sticks balanced on those milk maid type carriers across their shoulders. It looked like hard work. Some of them were eating berries, and they gave us some. I wouldn't normally eat a berry I didn't recognise,( my mum taught me not to) but all the villagers were eating them and they were yummy so we ate them, they were like a cross between a strawberry and a raspberry, also there were redcurrants. I heard a scary growling noise, at one point ...
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