Liuzhou International Hotel

... 19km from the seat of Sanjiang County and consists of 8 connected Dong villages. They are Ma An, Ping Tan, Ping Zhai, Yan Zhai, Dong Zhai, Ping Pu, Ji Chang and Da Zhai. I bought a ticket and entered from Da Zhai (aka Chengyang Village). The ticket entitled me to watch a show performed (at 10:30am) by the locals and a cup of traditional oil tea. The performers were all from the villages and all wore traditional Dong Costumes. They looked ...

... my stuff to the bus stop and it wasn't until we were there that he told me I would have to pay for his admission into the cave too. This was like the breaking point for me, so I told him I wouldn't pay for him and I changed my mind and wanted to go to the train station right away instead. Things with him kept going downhill from there, as he charged me for 2 full days so I felt pretty cheated in the end. From ...

... of us, always meant to be served in a rice bowl and eaten with chopsticks. Since the food is extremely oily, the rice serves nicely to soak up the excess grease. The dishes are incredibly varied with multiple colors, textures, sizes, all the while, maintaining a yin/yang balance. Yin foods including bean sprouts, cucumber, tofu, water, duck, crab, etc and will usually be boiled, poached or steamed. Yang foods like bamboo, eggs, ginger, rice, sesame oil, beef and chicken will be deep ...

... in the bed beside me yelled out angrily to the driver. It turned out that she need not have worried. We stopped again further down the road and picked up her husband and the other illegal passenger, who had probably been in contact with the bus by mobile phone. Yoong slept well, but I was restless and don't think I had much real sleep. By the morning I was also quite uncomfortable as, at least to my knowledge, we did not stop for a toilet break after about 1 am. Raymond's Travel Page

... who printed and laminated it for us right away. That afternoon, while our boatman said goodbye to us (probably happy he didn't have to push our fat Western rear-ends over weirs anymore) we felt dazed. Hours of sun and beer and too many things to look at had worn us out. We made our way back to Yangshuo town to have one last draft beer and some Western food before going to catch our plane back to Guangzhou.

... mal einen Job als Englischlehrer anbietet. Doch ich glaube auch meine Lehrer haetten es nicht fuer moeglich gehalten. Doch bleiben moechte ich hier nicht mehr so lange, Ich sehne mich nach der Sonne, um dem Weihnachtsfeeling so ganz zu entrinnen. Denn wenn ich daran denke, wuerde ich manchmal schon gerne ueber Weihnachten und Neujahr nach Hause, doch einen guenstigen Flug zu kriegen ist ...

Hello or Ni Hai, the past week has been a bit hectic. We left Hanoi and headed to Halong Bay which is pretty spectacular. I'm really going to have to improve my vocabulary and learn more words to descibe stuff. Halong Bay is full on little Limestone islands ( about 1000) all jutting out of the sea. really serene just sailing about soaking up the scenery. After this we headed up to Lang Son (town which is near the chinese border ...

... next to my effort- to be honest I just couldn't see the difference between the two, never mind replicate it. I think I'd be sent to the bottom of the caligraphy class very quickly if I lived here! On the plus side, I did learn how to write United Kingdom using a ball-point, which is going to come in extremely handy when it comes to sending my postcards home! Apparently one of the translations of my name could be 'trusted person of the family', though I'm not ...

After a rather hair-raising 20 minute taxi ride to the ferry terminal and an hour speeding along the coast by boat, we'd arrived at the port / border town of Shenzhen. With immigration and security dealt with surprisingly quickly, we were swiftly in a shuttle bus and on our way to the local airport. I was starting to get the impression that we were going to try for every single mode of mass transit possible in ...

Imaging how far I could get in Japan or even back home with 25 hours on a train I...well actually I didn't have a clue but I'm pretty sure it's further than the 1500km that this journey would take - a small hop on terms of China as a whole. I slept pretty well though even with the lower bunk of 3 (everyone sits on the bottom bunk during the day) but looking at the height of the top bunk I was glad and realized why ...