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Travel Blogs from Wuhan
The Transit Day
... A mall is the only thing in the vicinity and has minimal entertainment options. I've seen both Bourne Legacy and Total Recall so the cinema was a no go. Those who went to see the latter walked out within five minutes as it was dubbed. Some of the others went to see some kind of talent show and got pulled up on stage in front of a hundred odd people to dance Ganglam Style. Watch the white monkeys ...
Oct 20, X'ian to Yichang
... were soon on the road in a 32 seat bus; the only occupants. The 4 hour road trip was our first opportunity to see rural China....very interesting. At one extreme we saw farmers manually tilling and harvesting their crops, to larger holdings being worked by machines. We stopped at the ancient city of Jingzhou for lunch and to visit the local museum & ancient city wall. The city does not have the modernisation program of Beijing or X'ian, was ...
Population EXPLOSION!!!
... trip. It is magical and mysterious! The
next morning I was on my own to find my way back to the train station. I
have NEVER in my life seen so many people at once. There was a “people
jam” for about 3 blocks!! It took 20 minutes. Inside the train station
there was another jam of people. Unbelievable!!! Oh… the train…
recommendation: DO ...
10th September - 14th September
... and poor Gary was in the middle of me and Sonja stressing. Thankfully one of my students had found out for me that there were seats left on the early morning train and had written down in Chinese for me exactly what I needed and where I wanted to go. My exam is at 5pm on Saturday and I cant afford to miss it!! Shanghai is 6 hours on the fast train from Wuhan!!! Plan of action is to get up at 4am and head to Hankou train station in the hope of getting a train!!
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Classes, Aloha and the weekend!
... Wow! It was hot, my lips, tongue and throat were burning after just a tiny spoon full and after i had a little bit more my ears started to hurt too!! too hot!! After the traumatic experience of chilli sauce we decided that we would go out and went to Wuchang where we knew there were two good bars - Prison and Vox! Zoe didnt want to go to Vox because it was a Sunday and thought it would be rubbish! We then started to make friends with ...