Kunming, the city of eternal spring...not too much to say about the city itself. It is one of China's very large, busy, commercialized cities. It seems like the most common thing to do is go shopping! We did go explore the university area, which was fun and similar to the ones back home. We also visited The Bamboo Temple which except for hundred...

Well, I did it again. I am supposed to meet Scott Helmbold in the train station in Guiyang Sunday, but I just arrived in Kunming and purchased an overnight sleeper that won't arrive until Monday. I hope he checks his email and looks for me in the morning. My last day in Thailand was fairl sunny. I spent all afternoon at the beach catching some r...

OK, so chinese people are just friendly and lovely in this city. Yesterday, however, we didn't show up for our appointment with the teaguy instead I got a haircut at a place where nobody speaks english (and for the danes: the name is KSKIKSEN - so there u have it), so my haircut was an experience more than a due - I guess. But what ells to do on...

We never did get to the Dragon Pool Park in Lijiang! The past few days the rain has been lashing out of the sky, and the clouds were black and thick, covering the top of Jade Dragon Mountain which is the whole reason you visit the pool park - for its views of the mountain and reflection in the lake, we did see the mountain on our first day thoug...

In my old bedroom at my parent's house hangs a photo on canvas of snowy terraced fields in Yunnan. Susanna gave me the picture about two years ago. When I left Nanhai it was one of the few things that made it into my suitcase. The twilight falls down amid the watery terraces and contrasts with the purity of the snow. A village perches in one cor...

We arrived after a long train journey from Guilin, complete with the usual excessive amount of snoring people in our compartment, incredible sock selling techniques by the train cabin crew, stood in the aisle venomously stabbing the wonder socks repeatedly with chop sticks and wire brushes to demonstrate their resilience against any kind of abus...

Spent a while in the morning walking around the town seeing what it had to offer. They had a cool water show in the middle of town with little kids playing chicken with the jets. I hoped they would all get soaked but they all managed to escape a drenching. Damn! Didn't want to do anything so went to the cinema to watch a movie, After the Sunset,...

The last time I left most of you, I had just left my uni in Beijing and was staying in Chengdu, southern China. From there I started to make my way west towards Tibet, on the first of many buses. An hour out of Chengdu, we started climbing through this deep gorge at the edge of the highlands that surround Tibet. The greenery and wildlife along t...