Mandarin Xiamen

Xiamen was a typical Chinese city. It was not very interesting really. About the only exciting thing that happened took place in a local department store. We were on the third floor looking for a few things that we needed back on the ship, and Cub couldn't find a bathroom. We must have asked a half dozen store clerks and none ...

... and good views.<br><br>Just a word on environmental issues - China has a reputation for being the Bad Boy of the environment but we have been amazed how conscious they seem to be - it's generally very clean (but they have an army of cleaners), there is good use of low energy light bulbs and in most places they have recycling and non-recyclying bins. The toilets are mostly clean and the people mostly friendly - China has come a long way in 10 years. Apart from the driving.<br><br>

After a 3 hour drive along the coast into Fujian province, we arrive in another Special Economic Zone - Xiamen. This one's a little different in that it was previously the treaty port of Amoy and there is a small island offshore called Gulang Yu which was a colonial concession<br><br>The drive to Xiamen is a good one and crosses a series of mountain ranges and rivers that run down to the South China Sea. Some of these are limestone and many are uplifted plutonic granite, in great pink ...

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... ticket was an unbelievable 45 Euro including all taxes, and I got myself a seat for same day departure. It was almost hard to leave, and even so suddenly, because the staff at the hostel treated me so nicely, I felt more like a family member visiting, which may sound unbelievable in a big and busy hostel. When I left, they called me a taxi and even the cleaner was waving bye bye outside. The day before I had asked her to take my laundry out of the dryer when it was ...

To minimize our cost, we decided to choose Air Asia to kickoff our trip, I am always a big fan of Air Asia, they have amazingly cheap ticket from Xiamen to Bangkok which is starting from 99RMB(excl. tax). After comparing with all the other destinations' round trip fares, we decided to fly from Shanghai to Xiamen by China Spring Airline(the first Chinese budget airlines), then connect to Bangkok ...

... Top 5 will reflect this. The topic for this Top 5, the last in mainland China, is "Top 5 random statistics from my trip in China": 5. Least expensive day (a real day, including accommodation, food, everything): 38 yuan = $6. 4. Most expensive internet = 20 yuan per hour. *******s. 3. Out of the cities visited, proportion of cities with a population of 5 million or more: 9/14 2. Hours spent on trains: 142 1. Number of chinese characters that I can recognise: 68 Hong Kong it up...