Jialong Hotel Xuzhou

... Cest vraiment joli. On decouvre maintenant la Chine typique avec les chinois qui nous sourient timidement en nous voyant. Nous navons pas vu de famine ni de mendiant. Cest vraiment tres different de lInde

Nous sommes dans le sud et ici il y a plein de verdure compare au nord ou tout etait plutot sec.

A la prochaine

Daniel et Julie

... had to go back home, I really was not bothered (except that I’d pulled an all-nighter so I’d sleep on the plane…and then was drooling the rest of the day as Mom drove me home). I loved the extra two days at home!

Coming back is harder, and it is harder than just staying through. I passed up higher paying (i.e., paying off school loans) jobs to return. I make $17 USD a day here, which is much more than I need to live, but does not do much in the way of saving ...

... there, his descendents did, and it was the least interesting one =p)
The forrest was really cool! and anyone related to Confucious can be buried there, its a man made forrest and full of neat stuff and giant green things!

this weekend i'm headed off to inner mongolia with some people from my program! I'll put up an entry and pictures when i get back!
love and miss you all :)

... and it is very much what I look for my first night in a new city. The showers really sucked and there were a few too many misquotes both flying around and squashed on the walls. I checked out the Xiuxian Hotel which is right next to the Shitouji and I think they are owned by the same people and its rooms were beautiful and they come down from 120 Yuan to 80 Yuan within seconds. Normally I ...

Hey Hey and a Big G'Day toya,

Confucius once said: Is it not a joy to have friends come from afar?
Am I not a friendly chap and am I not from afar?
I say Yeah to that olchap!

Here I sit in the Qufu Youth Hostel with my 3 in 1 coffee and have been staring out the hostels large window that offers a perfect view of the street outside. For the past hour my views have been of what was once a main ...

... literally. All of the trees were frozen, the waterfalls were frozen and quite soon I was pretty chilly and sporting everything I had brought with me. The view from the top has provoked such previous profound observations as "the world is small" - Confucius, and "the east is red" - Mao, so I didn't feel too shallow that my main thoughts were "brr, it's cold". Unfortunately the views from the top were not spectacular as in the spirit of most of my time in ...

... was closed for the night. It wasn't even 6pm! A station worker on her way home called somebody on her cell and took us to the guard's office. The guard called the bus back to the station to take us back to Jinan. Unbelievable! Talk about spoilt! Seriously, sometimes it can be rough travelling around this country because you feel like it is open season on your wallet with scams to the left and hawkers to the right of you. Then there are times like these where people go ...

... I left for NanJing with Wupeng we rode on a train all night friday I didn't sleep much because it was so cold and I couldn't feel my feet. We got into NanJing early and we spend the day doing all kinds of things. We started at the NanJing Massicure Memorial Museum where I learned alot about the Chinese History. We then went to an ancient street and it was absolutly beautiful there it started to rain a little while we were there but nothing we couldn't handle ...

... us up on our offer of taking him out to dinner. With the new found knowledge of the guide book and a good nights sleep under our belt, we set off today on a mission. First up was the Chu tomb, a massive excavation of passageways that once contained most of what we had seen in the museum. And, happily, the dead king was just my height so I could walk around quite comfortably. Right next door was ...

... arrived we spent half an hour finding a hotel and then a lady took us right there. It was in a small street at the end of a small alley. We tried looking for a tea-house which has been closed for years. We eventually found it, but couldn't go in. Raymond's Travel Page