Pipaxi Hotel Zhangjiajie

... and the giant spider- whom we named "spider man." Since we moved in we have been scrubbing and spraying the entire place, and it has turned out alright! Adam spent the entire weekend scrubbing the kitchen, and wouldn't let me help because he said I don't scrub hard enough haha. So instead, I stuck to washing clothes and hanging them on our clothes line. It's definitely much more convenient to live on campus... we can leave ...

... for the bus, a tour group guide then told Luke’s father that he was getting on the wrong bus. Luke and Shorty were already on the bus and I was about to get on when his father erupted in exclamation of our perceived error. Luke ran to the front of the bus and talked to the driver. We were on the correct bus. The reality was that the guide had purposefully lied to Luke’s father in an attempt to secure enough seats for his group. That way none of his flock would ...

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i spent 3 days in the park and have done alot of walking proby 80k in 3 days

i meet a realy cool guy from japan who has been traveling for 2 years now lol, there is also quite a few brits from leads as well which is cool.

i am going to guangzhou from here which take 15 houres by train

anyways take care

peter xxx

... take" moment when I saw her. It was too good to pass up: I had to get a picture! After doing this loop it was starting to get a little late. Judging from the map I had, the hostel I was supposed to stay in was quite a distance. I had no idea which bus to take and I figured that walking would be the best option. The walk took me through a beautiful canyon which had a nice river running through it. A layer of mist was hovering over the river ...

... on their mobile devices. I couldn't help but smirk a smile while reading my book and hearing Karen Carpenter's "It's Yesterday Once More" blaring out of a young mans cell phone while he hummed along. From what I could see out the window on the last leg of the train journey, the surrounding mountains of Zhangjiajie look to be beautiful. I am looking forward to the weather clearing up and getting up to Wuling Yuan scenic area in the next couple of days.

... with water and set off towards the mountain. On the way I was bugged by yet another tour guide but this one I liked. He had decent teeth, his clothes were clean, and his nails weren't too long. He's about 35. He wasn't pushy like the others, and was patient with my bad Chinese. He can also speak a little English (by a little, I mean just a some words here and there, not like forming sentences). Anyway, he told me I should take the cable-car up ...

... forecourt and the city in front of me, felt ill and did a runner for a taxi to get the hell out. It didn't look unsafe, it looked like a total pollution nightmare. A thick fog hung over the city; a wide river about 200m wide ran through it looking like it was totally devoid of any life at all. A thick white grimy dust clung to every surface. It looked like something out of an orwellian nightmare with shades of lowrise blade runner thrown in. The ...

Hello all, thanks for the messages. It is great to hear from home. We are leaving Guangzhou tomorrow to go to Shanghai to complete the australian side of things. Mei Lee will have a medical on Thursday and when we get the results we go to the Australian Embassy and aply for her entry visa. So the last leg, we can;t wait to leave. We went on a river cruise last night which was great, they certainly know how to make ...

... were soo strong its ridiculous. When the stream got too shallow to continue, they jumped out into the freezing knee high water and literally pulled these gondolas( still full of about 20 people) around over the rocks, turned us around and started sailing again, without breaking into a sweat! The total row was 3km each way. God i felt lazy sitting in that boat, it was really humbling seeing people work so hard, complaint ...

... us almost two full days to see what was in store.... Once more there wasn't much on the surface of the town, but it was a much smaller and quieter place than elsewhere with only 4 million people living there, it was positively a hamlet. Walking around you get this real feeling of warmth and friendliness. We'd been stared at in many of the previous places that we'd visited, but this was on another level, people were practically crashing thier ...