Regal Hotel Guiyang

... here, Guiyang at 6pm, for a taxi driver to then take us round the block (and about 2 doors away from the bus station we got off at!) to our hotel for 10yuan, nevermind.<br>The hotel is clean, with aircon and a soft bed (3 things that your lucky to get in a chinese hotel) the bathroom is completely covered in plastic. It is literally a porta-loo cabin complete with sink, bath and step in shower, just placed in the corner of the ...

... 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.<br>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.<br>We found this internet cafe ...

... thinking of home and the games going on a lot of time on saturday! <br><br>pps - anyone...? how are the snowdogs going?!?!? alright?? :) <br><br>ppps - Pat and Gus - Hope your 21st went really well...if you happen to read this!<br><br>Later....<br>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 ...

... really are enjoying delicious food. For example, for lunch today, we shared three dishes with steamed rice. A whole river fish, chilli ginger beans and garlic water spinach with steamed rice and washed down with green tea.<br><br>When we arrived in this rather large town of Guiyang I wish we had the movie camera directed on us. Helen was unsure of the way to the hotel so we stopped at some lights and she grabbed a taxi for us to follow. The traffic parted amid a deluge ...

... has found herself at the center of national attention as a poster girl on the Internet. She has attracted more than 146,000 hits in less than a week after her photos were posted on the Internet by a photographer and blogger who goes by the name "Yuan Xing Bi Lou". The blogger was reportedly so enamored of her beauty when he visited the region that he posted five pictures of A Xiang-yi in traditional Miao costumes. Netizens have left hundreds of messages for China's "most ...

... 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 ...

Scott read my email and sent me his phone number. He got a hotel near the train station and waited for my arrival in the morning when he met me, took me back to his hotel to freshen up, grab a bowl of noodle soup for breakfast then board the train again to the town where his students Squall and Wendy would meet us. The trip took about 4 hours. Squall, Wendy, Susie and a friend of Squall picked us up in a borrowed car from the ...

... of my hair, walked past ten or so before finding one that looked like it knew what it was doing. I didn't really know what I asked for but I got my hair shampooed, my head massaged, then they cut it, followed by another shampoo and head massage then i got it styled all for only three pounds. Woo hoo Guilin rocks

... there all the better. The square was packed with old folks doing various forms of exercise. Its a great aspect of China - you often see old folk out doing their activities either first thing in the morning or last thing at night. Its about the only evidence of quaintness you come across with any form of regularity. With the omnipotent 6m statue of Mao gently watching over us, we watched a marching band ...