Hongkong Joyful Hotel Dujiangyan

Enjoy dumplings filled with minced tofu and vegetables. I much prefer these to those filled with pink meat - pork I'd guess. We eat them with hard boiled eggs and salt. At 10am we join a newly wed couple from Singapore. In Singapore both English and Malai are spoken and the husband speaks excellent English. We all go to a village 11km out of town. The ride and wait time is 20Y each.

There is a 10Y charge to enter the ...

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... was a mistake was because of lunch. We had a free lunch at the Chinese equivalent of a roadhouse. An hour or two later, while wandering around the mountain, I started regretting lunch. That night I went out for spicy hotpot with the Taiwanese guy I met on the tour. He thought nobody on the tour knew he was from Taiwan, but I knew as soon as I saw the colour of his passport when he handed it to the guide, although he was extremely careful not to let anybody see the writing on the cover ...

... that they were good for any time before 630 which was what the lady had been trying to tell me. so the rest of my people show up and we get on the bus and head home. It was so exhausting but a good time. It was good to get out of the city. Tomorrow is the Mid-autumn festival or the Moon cake festival meaning I get a day off of school. Hopefully I will have some cool pictures. Speaking of, I just uploaded some photos ...

... the rivers, quite literally a part of the landscape instead of standing apart from it. Many local people were out and about, braving the cold in wonderful, toasty-looking traditional blue or green, side buttoning shirts and sheepskin vests. Any requests to photograph them, though, were met with the same response: "No, my clothes are all dirty from working in the fields. Let me change into my good clothes first!" A shame they felt the need to pollute their own environment with ...

... a plasic bag in hand just incase, althought with the amount of hackin' of spit and phlegm the chinese produce, 1 westerner inverting himself on the pavement wouldn't really go noticed.. Upon the returning of my reciept to emotionless bureau worker, the required sticky attachment was swiftly printed out in a bit of a cafuffle there and then.. Hmmm, so much for the 5 day wait... back to the hostel I mournfully strolled regetting not pushing ...

... It's rather like living inside a Victorian novel, only with more Starbucks. The air quality does at least partially excuse the famous Chinese penchant for hacking and spitting even if most do seem to treat it more like a hobby than a necessity. So while the air is assaulting your sense of taste and smell; and throaty chorus of thousands of Chinese battering your ears; your eyes can feast on all the architectural charm which ...

Bonjour a tous!!!! Enfin, un peu de nos nouvelles! Je sais je sais, nous avons pris notre temps avant de revenir, mais quand meme, nous avons fait un moyen bout de chemin! Et comme Marc (vous vous souvenez, notre guide francais) favorise les hotels standards, c"est plus difficile de trouver internet... Dans les auberges de jeunesse, comme ici, internet est gratuit et les ordinateurs sont a portee. Justement, nous en profitons pour faire un peu de ...

... really touched by this gesture. On our journey we encountered many landslides that had either just happened or had occurred some time ago. To see this landscape scarred by the landslides made me realise the dangers these people face every day. Along the way we stopped at a Tibetan temple - which was very interesting. The incense was burning and the chants were being played over the loud speakers. We were able to walk around ...

... after a quick check in at the hotel and shower, Chandler, Scott and I headed out for a night on the town. Something we would come to regret. It was Saturday night and we expected Xiaojin to be buzzing - unfortunately not. Every bar we went into was empty. We eventually found a place with more than two people in and settled down for the night. We sat with the locals, enjoying toasts, swapping pleasantries. Scott and Chandler were able to ...