Qianling Hotel Guiyang

... br>The best bit about yesterday has to be that Tom went out looking for dinner whilst i grabbed a shower, and when he came back, he had chips and sausage! We have eaten nothing but noodles and rice with spicy food stuffs for 10 days to finally have something mildly english, was amazing. Even if the chips were under-cooked, and the sausage over-cooked. Oh well.

We're off to Kunming today on a train, heading south to Laos.

... and a little old, a typical Chineese place. Nobody speaks English and all the signs are in Chineese(which is their second language, after the Miao language), anyway: we manage.
Today at 9 Billy came and took us to thr CITS office, gave us good information. We go at 12:30 to a Miao village, Xijiang, where we'll spend the night. Tomorrow we'll return' pick the luggage and continue to the south.
We found this internet cafe ...

... thinking of home and the games going on a lot of time on saturday!

pps - anyone...? how are the snowdogs going?!?!? alright?? :)

ppps - Pat and Gus - Hope your 21st went really well...if you happen to read this!

Later....
we went out for lunch with CD, the maganger of the bar last night...this was cooll...there's lots and lots of little dishes filled with different vegetables spread over the table....you get a small, thin ...

... spooky. Helen, our guide, was obviously quite bemused at this unusual stopover and sent a pic' to her boss of the Crazy Cables!

More mountains and another, even longer and taller suspension bridge under completion. Later we stopped for lunch. We were glad that Helen didn't take us to the restaurant next to us as it served dog! We are in the Guizhou Province where dog is the provincial delicacy. We leave this province tomorrow, so the dogs are safe for now!

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... tourism director", marveling at her beauty and dubbing her "a lotus surfacing above crystal-clear water". "You can't find such natural glamor in an office employee," a netizen wrote. A Xiang-yi works at her birthplace, a 1,000-household Miao village in Xijiang town famous for its ancient ethnic architecture. She told China Daily on Thursday that she had "mixed feelings" over the sudden rise to fame. "I'm very happy that people like me, but I'm also worried that some people ...

... to the Zhenyuan Fucheng Hotel, which was a basic room but in a great location in the middle of the main attractions of the town. We had several interesting walks and saw life of the local and touring Chinese people. We were taken to a magnificent lunch and then proceeded to the Wuyang river where we were taken on a river cruise - beautiful scenery along the river. We also witnessed a Miao dancing troupe performing, which was fascinating - both the girls and the male flute players ...

... to see there, a waste of time. Buy some fruit and sweets for supper in the train, and we are left at Guiyang train station, among milions of chinese people. The train has no closed cabins, and we must sleep in the beds in the middle of the corridor, more than 80 persons per wagon. This will really be an experience. Tomorrow we arrive in Guilin, after more than 17 hours in the train. I wonder if it is worth saving the hotel to suffer all this.

... capital of the province. Check in, a short walk, and buy something for supper in a supermarket: some dehidrated noodles, to which you only have to add some boiling water to cook them. Very cheap and tasty! It's been almost 1 week since we saw last non chinese person! Incredible, we thought we would find thousands of tourists everywhere, visiting China during Olympics, but we were wrong.

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... volunteers. We had a dinner that everyone contributed to there, with the main course being roast duck. We also made a huge bowl of salsa, and somewhere along the line, someone discovered a clever way to make tortilla chips. Chinese food has a thing called jiaozi, which is a dumpling made by wrapping a flour shell around vegetables or meat. So you buy the wrappers for the jiaozi uncooked, then fry them, and you have ...