Ping Hu Yichang

... in this net cafe has just hawked up his deepest-lodged phlegm and spattered it on the floor beside me... yeuch!!<br><br><br> So, there I was ambling round Yichang, pondering the possible reasons for such a quantity of wedding shops, with such hideous frilly numbers in their windows, when I spied something far more interesting... food stalls which had, as well as the usual assorted fried small birds and ...

... a couple of girls in the group as they are both extremely obese and everywhere they go children point and laugh and even adults blatantly stare at them. I&#8217;m yet to see an overweight Chinese person so I guess it&#8217;s particularly foreign to them. Eventually I found some more of the group and we went up to the internet cafe next door which was amazingly plush with gold ceilings and private computer booths with sofas. Tomic showed up here too which was useful as we couldn ...

Xi'an <br> <br>The main reason we traveled to Xi'an was to see the 8th Wonder of the World - the Terra Cotta Warriors. We all studied the site (with its 7000 personalized soldiers made of clay to protect the Emperor after his own death) before arriving and yet I made everyone sit through a very boring 30 minute video of the history and details of this attraction. For me, it was just that, an attraction. I had traveled there 20 years ago when it was ...

... towering over you on one side then dropping away to infinity to the other. We saw one side of the dam (the dam has caused the river to pretty much flood the three gorges, and many many peoples houses too). It looked impressive, and you could clearly see that the river was at new heights. It didn't look right, the river past the dam, now looks like a huge lake. The bus then pulled into a ferry Port 'yay' we though, the bus was just taking us to ...

... Chongqing durano minimo tre/quattro giorni e che non c'era posto fino a dopodomani. Abbiamo optato per un aliscafo in partenza domani mattina: una giornata di navigazione attraverso le tre gole fino a Wanzhou e' piu' che sufficiente per noi. Da li' domani sera dovremmo essere in grado di saltare su un treno fino a Chengdu dove dovremmo arrivare dopodomani in mattinata. Il condizionale e' d'obbligo. L'avventura anche.

... just because it was a Friday night or nit, but it was packed, and we were the only non-Chinese people in there, except for some strange Dutch guy. We were the freak show for the evening I think! The night though was brilliant. They had live singers on and proper cocktail barmen tossing their bottles all over the place - even with flames. The defining moment was the Long Island Iced Teas. This is my favourite drink but there are not ...

... 3 nights with another couple in a small cabin on a boat!). They had a bit of a go at the reception who didn't seem to grasp what was going on so I tried to help out by pointing to the different room options of the price list board that every hotel has here. They got on the phone to the travel company who booked the hotel for them and eventually they got things sorted out. I took a taxi to the train station and booked my train without any problems and headed to a ...

... him in Chinese so he just stopped, in the middle of the off ramp! So funny. We were all in stitches. We got a little lost on the way and wre stopped at a couple of army stops, but made it to the boat eventually. On the way Mary told us about the Three Gorges Dam project. It's horrendous! I won't go into it, (read more http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_gorg es_dam ) except to say that it's going to kill most of the animals in ...

... and it is dingy and dirty. Live eels are being gutted in front of us and it stinks. We make a break for it.... As Ive had a pretty bad stomach bug for days of i decide that the only way to fix this is medication. Simple enough, we consult the bible and antibiotics are recommended. Armed with this and the chinese word for diarrohea we go to the local pharmary supermarket - it is literally the size of a supermarket with rows of check outs ...