Kun Lun Zhongshan

We took the bus down to the border with Macau, which is situated in a shopping centre fittingly enough. It wasn't as much a walk through to the other side as a queue-through but soon enough we were out and in the Venetian's complementary bus heading for the casino. The Venetian hotel & casino is simply spectacular. It is the world's fourth ...

Well we are now on the last leg of our mammoth trip! One week today we will be on the flight home and we are looking forward to arriving back in Australia.
As you know our trip has been fantastic and we thought nothing could top Egypt but we are now experiencing so many fantastic things we are not so sure!!!

We arrived in Guangzhou at...

The ferry ride to Macau only took about an hour, and it cost us about $70USD each for the round-trip. On the way over, we had a fairly nice ferry (back wasn't as good). On arrival, we had to go through customs and immigration...again. Then we didn't really know what to do. We hadn't made a plan about anything. Except I wanted to at least do a li...

Ni hao. Terkut Macaolta, Aasian kasinokaupungista. Lennettiin Filippiineilta 8.paiva Macaolle. Tosin Cebu Pacific ilmotti meilitse et meian lentoaikatauluu oli muutettu ja jouduttiin ensin lentamaan Manilaan ja viettamaan 4tuntia siella ennen kun lennettais Macaolle. Lento Cebusta Manilaan kesti noin tunnin ja Manilasta Macaolle parisen tuntia j...

good morning on this beautifully sunny clear day in GuZhen. How is it there? Still snowing HAHAHAHAHA (I could go on). Quite a lot has happened since I last sent any kinda of update. I'll start with the old section of information and birthdays. It's my birthday today and it's my first day off in my apartment so I thought I'd get on with blogging...

November 16, 2007 Well, I can't believe that we're already half way through November! I had good intentions to send out an update after I got back from Vancouver at the beginning of October - where does the time go? Although my visit to Vancouver was short, there was enough time for me to go to my reunion, do some visiting, and get in my food fi...

September 26, 2007 We left Zhongshan on August 2nd, and headed for Guangzhou so we could catch our flight to Chengdu. We had originally planned to leave on August 6th, as we had been told by Bond that classes didn't end until August 5th, so we made all our flight and train arrangements around the August 6th departure date. The first morning we w...

Day 3 Hong Kong... or should I say, Day 3 Macau. Today, we've made plans to take the ferry to Macau, which is a city located on Mainland China. It used to be a Portugese colony, and remained that way for almost 450 years... when it was turned back over to China. In a "Brief Introduction to Macau" pamphlet, it said that Macau benefits from the ne...

I can't believe it's been over a month since I sent out my last update. It feels like the weeks are just flying by and I have now been here for over five months! My students have been changing their names again! One of my students, Sohpia, who is also a student of mine at No.1 Middle School, told me when I saw her at Bond, that she had changed h...

The Kowloon Park reminded me of those back in London, huge, well groomed and filled with lots of wildlife and people. Enough noise to drown out the city and take you on a break from the real world.Well back onto Nathan Rd, this time heading in the opposite direction were again we swam upstream missing the tailorman and briefly being offered chea...