Sunshine Hotel Guiyang

Sara:

...Seriously people think it is acceptable to hock up disgusting things and spit all over the floor, wether that be in the street, a cafe, bus, or train, people spit everywhere here!

We got here after a horrific 10 hour bus journey, it is very hot, about 33 degrees.

The bus seemed to have a problem with its suspension, and we were sitting over the back wheels going up, down and around rocky mountains. We ...

... 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!

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.

... ages though....12 would be early!
people have been doing that at most gigs so far and they've all been really nice and its been heaps of fun to go out with them and taste the food (we seem to always have midnight meals!) and then crash after that! after the second Chongqing gig (at Nuts club) we went and got barbeque which is great!! - you choose which skewers you want...there's like potato, zucchini, mushrooms, meats, intestines, chicken skin ...

... 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.

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 ...

Am I the only one to feel a little uncomfortable about this exoticizing of a person by Chinese . . . Tourism official becomes an attraction herself As the deputy director of a county tourism bureau in Guizhou province, A Xiang-yi's job is to attract as many people as possible to her home region. The underdeveloped Leishan county is home to people of various ethnic groups, of which Miao people account for 83.5 percent of the residents. But in the past week, the 26-year-old ethnic ...

... street food - the region is famous for its many kinds of tofu - and then to a ceremonial tea house. at the end of the day we ran out of time and had to rush back to meet Beth and Dan, after which we took Nick for dinner and beer, including to the only place in zunyi with beer on tap where we taught Nick how to pour. Corrupting youth? Bah, the beer there is so weak it's hardly corruption.

In our daily walk before breakfast, Monika joins a Taiqi group, and I play badminton for sme minutes with local people at the park. Then some poor breakfast, a quick shower and head for our first visit: Qingyan Old Town. A typical scenery of chinese ancient films, a grey wall sorrounding the town, small buldings with inner terraces, narrow stony streets...and the non-stopping rain. We must buy an umbrella and Michael also to continue the visit ...

We must check out at 8:00, because we need more than 3 hours to cover 145 km from Anshun to Zhijin, where te biggest karst cave in China is waiting for us. The roads are a torture, but we hope it will be worth all the suffering. We are visiting Daji cave, an enormous area under a mountain, with many huge "rooms", in which football grounds should fit widely. Lots of different karstic ...

... zzm354 กก zzm359 The villagers themselves created the working electricity network by siphoning power from Stone Gate Village. To get water, however, villagers ...

... and we're both teaching culture. I have Wednesday and Friday off, and my Monday classes will be gone for a month to do their teaching practice. So we're spending our time watching a lot of movies, planning our lessons for next semester, and generally relaxing. Next week, we're taking our winter vacation to Kunming, a place south of here, in Yunnan Province. After that, we'll be in Chengdu for our winter in-service training.