Qihang Express Hotel
Travel Blogs from Wuhan
The Transit Day
... For their troubles they were given tickets to a show they won't be around for. I found a Papa Johns and settled in. Due to mis communications not of my making my 9" pizza came with a side order of a 12" pizza. It was sent back. We were on another bus to the train station, then on a two hour bullet train. It has the only western toilets I've seen all day. I don't know what to think about a train being my ...
Oct 20, X'ian to Yichang
... flight to Wuhan was uneventful with a slight cloud cover. Wuhan is located at the confluence of 2 major tributaries to the Yangtze, the Han and the Suzhou rivers. It is very humid and heavily dependent on water for farming and industry. Main industries are manufacturing (steel and automobiles - Nissan, Honda, Peugeot, Citroen all have plants), and agriculture (rice, aquaculture, eels, turtles, lotus flowers) Our guide, Sharp, met us at the airport ...
Population EXPLOSION!!!
... the hard seat overnighter!!! At all cost
try for the soft bed or the hard bed. There were about 200 people
jammed into our car. At least 50 paid for the standing arrangement. It
was physically challenging. The six I sat with were nice young kids –
they wanted to talk, but didn’t have enough language. I got a Chinese
good luck gift from a sweet young ...
10th September - 14th September
So Monday 10th was teachers day in China and to celebrate we were told that there was a big concert happening for the teachers. Yes i thought i love a concert it was only after 30minutes on a bus and getting out outside a opera house that I realised it was a symphony orchestra!! Great!! The place was so posh inside and it even had westerner toilets!! I found it funny that it was necessary for there to be a picture up in the toilets reminding people that ...
Classes, Aloha and the weekend!
... people and I played wing man to Wade chatting to the Chinese girls and boys to try and set him up!! We also met some lads from Sudan that were studying in China who found it appropriate to buy Chinese Tequila shots like they were a regular beer. The bar closed and it was time to go - Zoe was so drunk so threw up in the taxi home on herself and poor Sonja!! Ha so much for dont want to go to Vox because its a Sunday!!! Good times!!
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