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A taste of Thailand? But i'ts China!
... experience when getting off the plane. A young Chinese woman about 25 - 30 (hard to tell) presented me with 2 peacock feathers from a bunch she was holding. No English so I have no idea why. We gave her an NZ fridge magnet but I don't think she has any idea what it is! At the Hump Hostel we meet An Lim again - the Penang CS we met in Dali a week earlier. She said that receiving peacock feathers in Chinese means good luck. We'll see.
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All the way to the border!!
... than a farm track. Yet they are building motorways!! Unfortunately they are half built and the projects seems to have been abandoned! In the centre and south the roads are excellent. There are also a lot of high speed rail lines being built in all the parts we visited. One straight through the Great Wall as I described a few weeks ago!!
They have some strange ways do the Chinese, especially the males. They spit everywhere, even the ...
It's too hot!
... the river, we had to follow it upstream. This meant walking in the river, climbing over fallen trees and clambering over large rocks. We walked, and walked,and walked and seemed to be getting nowhere, having to be careful not to drop our bags into the water. Eventually, we decided to turn around and head back, and that's when it started tipping it down with rain making everything more slippery and dangerous. We all got back to the car drenched. Even though we never ...
A rather laid back and relaxed city
... like wearing their t-shirts up around their arm pits, revealing their flabby bits … a bad thing from many points of view!
It was time to get my hair cut … I no longer needed my winter coat. It only cost a pound to de-fluff my head and face, although he did jab the shears into my Adam's apple twice. I’m not sure if he was trying to work out if I was a real man or something, but it hurt like hell.
After a shower, we headed out ...
Southwest China to Southeast USA
... Whew! Having endured 3 months in the wet, foggy, cold, mountains of Chongqing, where I never thought I would get warm, I set off for Yunan Province in the southwest in search of heat-at least sunshine. Blue sky, sweater weather is what I had in mind.
My first stop was Kunming, touted as the Spring City for its equable climate. Ha! Lonely Planet lies. Lying in bed at the hostel I could see my breath in the air. I shivered under two duvets. Finally I looked at my handy, ...
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