Park Guiyang

Sara:

...Seriously people think it is acceptable to hock up disgusting things and spit all over the floor, wether that be in the street, a cafe, bus, or train, people spit everywhere here!

We got here after a horrific 10 hour bus journey, it is very hot, about 33 degrees.

The bus seemed to have a problem with its suspension, and we were sitting over the back wheels going up, down and around rocky mountains. We ...

... going to the police station! a woman took us here. I always say that the police should help the people, not terrifed them - and this is true here too!

We are well - it is hot and humid, and Billy told us to eat less and to drink more water - I tasted their tea and coffee: not recomendated but that's what they have. water we buy - but there are containers of purified free water everywhere - Eyal is afraid to drink it.

... paper circle and put it in your hand and then add which ever vegies you want, stacking them on...then you kind of wrap it all up except for one part...where you pour the chilli-soy-something sauce into it and then pop it straight into your mouth. :) yum, and fun!
Josh and Lyon headed back with CD and another guy who was a piercer and Josh got his eyebrow pierced!!!
after that it was time to pack up and head to the train station...destined for Kunming!

... barps' and we were off on a hair-raising ride through the rush hour traffic including a u-turn generating the loudest response yet. Somehow we arrived at the hotel having just lost sight of the taxi, but luckily we spotted Helen on the footpath waving her piece of paper at us, and not a scratch on the truck. A close one but we are now in a nice newish bright and clean pub, on the 16th floor, laughing at the cacophony below. It is chaos out there and we are off for a bite.

... much manipulation and a positive outcome is not guaranteed". "It would do no harm to the image of the local government," he said, comparing her with former US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, who he described as "beauty meeting politics". Professor Xia Xueluan, from the department of sociology and anthropology at Peking University, disagreed. He said that pictures of a civil servant circulated online in the name of beauty is "inappropriate". Xia suggested that tourists ...

... Not much more to see here, so we decide to go back to Guiyang for some lunch. After that, a visit to the Hongfu Temple, on top of a hill in Qianling Park. Another silly visit to a budist temple. They're all the same: sculptures, incense burners... Once you've seen one, it is nonsense to visit others. Go back to Guiyang center for last visit in the province, the Jiaxiu Pavilion. A small building in the middle of the river, with nothing ...

... with strange names and shapes, beautiful colour illumination to enhance the incredible effects of the stones and rocks. More than 2 and a half hours walking inside the cave, and only explored a 20% of it. Incredible. It was really worth! It's almost 3 o'clock, so we are hungry and our guide also, and have an splendid lunch. Then, another 4 hours of road torture towards Guiyang ...

... a swimming pool and a playground. The community here also developed quickly under Pollard's influence so that it soon possessed an orphanage, hospital, leper house, post office and so on. Due to the elevation, the mountain-top village Stone Gateway lacked essential crops and large portions of the villagers perished due to famine. In 1906, missionaries Rev and Mrs. Harry Parsons brought potatoes into this area for the first time ...

... capital, Guiyang, it was hard to believe we were in the same country after the glittering glass and bright lights of Shenzhen. The traffic was minimal, a fact borne out by the almost total absence of road-markings. Soon afterwards we were to find that those same roads turned into a late night BBQ. You couldn't clearly see the far end of the street 100 metres away for smoke from all manner of food, being cooked in all manner of styles although mostly it was grilled over ...

... school house. There we were divided up into host families and led off to our houses. Our host father Yang Wei is a really nice guy. He was kind and eager and he worked hard with Jack and I to try to conquer the language barrier, which was made larger by the fact that the Miao speak their own language and aren't accustomed to using Chinese, although most of them have studied it. Our mother was small and pretty and she made some really good food. The house we stayed was wood ...