JinLing RunYang Bridge Hotel Zhenjiang

... for the day, and the very kind host of a fantastic week in China, and headed back to the train station to journey to our next destination. <br><br>Despite arriving at the station an hour before the train was due to depart (an hour we filled with postcard writing and games of ********, under the gaze of curious locals) we only just made it onto the train. Us passengers were only allowed onto the platform five minutes before departure, and with a huge bottle necking effect, hundreds of ...

... famous site in Yangzhou is Shouxihu, known as "Slender West Lake". My local guide told me it is a must-see place, so it is my first stop of the trip.The scenery can give you the best explanation for the name since it is as amazing as the famous West Lake while additionally there are emerald green trees, cherry red lotus, traditional Chinese pavilions,and ...

... t get a very good write-up in the guidebooks but we thought it was stunning and really friendly in a less leery way than Suzhou. The main attraction is the Slender West Lake which is a pretty park. Ge Garden was so lovely - almost as nice as Suzhou's Master of the Garden of Nets!

... smokey and purpel night sky, the busy streets, the absent looks and sweet smells. One week in Hongkong (waiting for our long-desired and in germany apparently unatainable Visas) left little motivation to visit yet again another megacity, so we stopped in Guangzhou, more for tactical reasons. We stayed at Paul's place. Well, detailed description of the ocurred events would require better memory or less beer that night : ) so ...

... sont légions et dans les jardins les pièces d'eaux sont éssentielles mais comme les montagnes sont loins on en créé de petites artificielles et la nature suit, bonzaï à profusion... Demain je fais un bond vers le sud de quelques milliers de km, je prend un avion pour m'emmener dans les montagnes kastiques du sud ouest de la Chine. La c'est l'aventure qui m'attend car j'ai un billet pour m'y rendre mais pas pour revenir...

I am back on-line. For some reason I cannot access my goggle blogspot from China. So I have started over. I arrived in Nanjing (160 Miles NW of Shanghai - population 6.5 Million) last evening on the high speed train. Train was nice, cruised at an average speed of about 170 Km (about 100 mph). Top speed approached 200 km/hr. Very modern. The trip was through the country side full of rice paddies, brick plants, and lots ...

... will even try to sit near them. <br> <br>Bugger that mate! <br> <br>I walked over to a lady and her daughter who had only two small bags, one on each spare seat and nothing on the table. I asked if I could sit down and they both looked at their bags and said no. I nicely asked again and pointed out that there were no other free seats. The mother looked at me in disgust , said no and motioned for me to move away. That was it for ...

... and its rooms are full of dolls dressed in ancient clothing. The views are mainly of bamboo and trees that cover the Yangzi River and I didn't' think the grounds were that great. There was an old run down Taoist Temple beneath the mountain but it was closed and like I said, run down. The iron pagoda is still on the hill just as you reach the temple. It has of course seen better days and so would you have if you were made during the Tang Dynasty ...

... That night I went out with everyone and we had a great time!! We made ourselves a little dance floor area and it was fun:) Our last day there we went to this tea-pot market and it was absolutely crazy people trying to sell you things left and right then behind, in front and probably at your diagonals. I found a couple tea-pots that I really liked but it was hard because I had never seen that many in my life. They use a purple clay ...

I took a train from Beijing to Nanjing by myself, to meet with relatives in Nanjing (on my dad's side: grandma, aunt, uncle, cousin; on my mom's side: grandpa, grandma, aunts, uncles, cousins). I had been in Nanjing several times before so I'm familiar with the sights.