Sheng Feng 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.<br><br>We're off to Kunming today on a train, heading south to Laos.

... going to the police station! a woman took us here. I always say that the police should help the people, not terrifed them - and this is true here too!<br><br>We are well - it is hot and humid, and Billy told us to eat less and to drink more water - I tasted their tea and coffee: not recomendated but that's what they have. water we buy - but there are containers of purified free water everywhere - Eyal is afraid to drink it.<br><br>

... all sorts!!! - anything you can put on a skewer really! and they bbq it with this delicious sauce and then bring them all to your table and you can eat which ever ones you want!!!<br>it's great! anyway, hope you are all well...sorry for the lack of blogs...I will update later when I have some reliable internet and can work out how to type not in chinese symbols!!! bye for now!~ <br><br>p.s. - netball and footy results sounded good...Go Peake! I ...

Fri.22nd May. Xingyi - Guiyang.<br><br>Off at 8am and less than 30minutes into our drive...major attractions. Suspension bridge and a waterfall of many metres at Malinghe Gorge. This very deep gorge is known as (in Chinese) the Worlds Most Beautiful Scar. To view this gorge we could have gone down in a glass sided lift but we decided to take the pic's from a rickety old bridge that the adjacent new suspension bridge will replace. Actually, Dave took those pic's - it was ...

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... 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.

... to taste some of the local delicaticies. This time there is a wok in the middle of a round table where we put different vegetables, tofu and meats in the oil and let it cook. Everyone has chopsticks and picks out what the they want to eat. I picked out a slice of potato before it was cooked and they were appalled! No, it must be cooked first! They dropped us off at our hotel about 10:30 and told us not to wonder the streets at ...

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... China had just happened to pass by the city that contains this restaurant. After a huge walk to find it, we wandered in and knew pretty much right then that it wasn't what we had imagined. **** food, expensive and nothing to do with NZ. Presumably the name was just to make the locals feel sophisticated when they ate there. After finishing up as quickly as possible we headed back out, wondering whether ...