Liang Gang Hotel Beihai

... heading in the other direction (at what later turned out to be a really good exchange rate!). When we arrived at the bus depot the very helpful driver carried some of our bags up to the desk and spoke to the clerk who then gave us the tickets to Hanoi, the taxi driver paid and then took some Chenes Yuan off us, all very very friendly and helpful. Until the clerk behind the desk stats to shout at the taxi driver, the security comes over shouting ...

We left Ha Long Bay this morning and continued east and entered China. We are at a stop over and will head to the docks in Macau to send our trucks home tomorrow. We are 577 kilometers from there and the Avalanche is ready to go home and it has done its job and carried us about 6,000 miles in 30 days with little or no trouble. We will head tomorrow ...

Islands are expensive, but camping is cheap. After about a week on a few islands you really appreciate the sound of the ocean over the constant honking of cars and motorbikes. We always find a way to take the most inefficient route of transportation it seems, though we get to our destination just the same, this time it took a day longer. It also took a ...

... station, so I decided to take a train instead. Headed back to the train station and found out it would not leave for another 4 hours, so I bought my ticket and waited. I thought it might be an hour or so ride, judging by the distance, but as I soon learned, trains can be very slow. We kept stopping at every middle-of-nowhere train station along the way (okay, I know I'm being very city-centric here) and I had no idea when we'd reach Qinzhou, but we finally did after 3 hours. My ...

... etroites de ce qu'il reste de vieille ville, séances photo sur l'ile de Shamian... Je me suis pris a détester l'immense salle de bowling ou nous allions chaque soir, de laquelle je pense detenir le titre officiel de plus mauvais joueur. J'ai été surpris de constater combien les cantonnais aiment a jouer au billard, ce qui n'a en fait rien d'étonnant vu que le jeu est omniprésent sous toutes ses formes dans les villes chinoises ...

Beihai is a small city, but there is a beach named the silve beach which is called the best silve beach in China. It's 2 hours by train from the capital city of Nanning as they both in the same province. I have been there several times, but this time as i have this travel blog, so i just gonna to write something. and show some pics as i took a better camera with me. anyhow, i am a camera bug ...

We had an early start from our beautiful guesthouse to the local bus station, where we would continue our journey to Liuzhou. We were thinking we'd be travelling rough, as we had started using local public buses rather than private minivans, and we weren't sure of what the standard would be. The first bus journey was about 2 hours, a normal standard coach, clean, air-conditioned and pretty OK. We stopped at the bus station to catch some lunch and ...

... Yes, I'm sad to say, some are quite delicious. Birds don't come near me anymore, I've joined the 1.3 billion to fear! ...um....yes yes, getting on with the day...went out into the beautiful tree lined streets of Beihai, caught the number 3 bus the 10kms to Silver Beach. Yes and if your ever in the area go to Silver Beach area, on the way, don't look out the windows because you see some really dumb looking hotels and things I just don't know what to call ...

... gear, he'd be having flashbacks and diving under the table for cover. On New Year's Day itself we headed back to the beach, this time it was a lot busier but you could probably put half the population of the city here and it still wouldn't seem as busy as Wasaga on a holiday weekend. Beach fashions in China run the gamut from the sublime to the ridiculous. Unfortunately "Speedo's' are popular, so you have some men running around playing badminton in these terrible garments ...

... Holy Mother of God. I've slept in a camping cabin with drunken, snoring friends but I have never in all my life heard such a cacophany; such an interminable, unrelenting, headache inducing wall of noise as this. I'm a light sleeper at the best of times, but Cathy grew up in T.O and I'm fairly certain that she would have slept through the London Blitz if she had been around during the second world war. Suffice to say that the din even woke her up! It sounded like the whole of ...