Hua Lian Hotel 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 ...

... really are enjoying delicious food. For example, for lunch today, we shared three dishes with steamed rice. A whole river fish, chilli ginger beans and garlic water spinach with steamed rice and washed down with green tea.<br><br>When we arrived in this rather large town of Guiyang I wish we had the movie camera directed on us. Helen was unsure of the way to the hotel so we stopped at some lights and she grabbed a taxi for us to follow. The traffic parted amid a deluge ...

... 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.

We only had 16 hours in Hong Kong, and that includes a nights sleep. The group seperated here as not all of us were continuing throught to Vietnam, as the trip was split into two trips. Two new people joined us, Joanne and Mark, from London. We went for our final group meal in the evening, followed by a trip to an Irish bar. The next morning we departed, 6 original, 2 newbies and a new tour leader. One of ...

... of China's more recent past has anything to the home of Zhou Enlai's father being in the village I can only speculate. It is viewed as a place to visit for a day or half-day, buy your souvenir food and alcohol and head back to the city. By 8pm it was deserted and the streets were almost pitch black except for the lights from shopkeepers working to develop their stores. Our hostel was outside the village walls and when we walked out of the large gate, one could ...

... feed the monkies! There's also a most enjoyable 'Death Ride' to have a go on and a monastery up in the mountains. The waterfall is not easy to find. Do not believe The Lonely Planet on this one. By the time we'd actually arrived we only had about 30mins to spend there and even then there were no buses and we had to flag down a passing police car. Luckily the police men were most obliging and we got back safe and sound! The waterfall is beautiful though, well worth the hassle.