V8 Hotel Xi Lang Branch Guangzhou

i knew it would happen, but only four days in and sarah has chinitis, all the smells, tastes and intruguing aspects of CHina have resulted in symptoms including vomiting in front of a chinese family in Qingping markets. we walked through a really really fascinating marketplace full of kittens, puppies, tortoitses, so many fish, salamanders, chip munks, every manner of claw, dried lizards, mushrooms, fungi and bunny ...

We caught a train from HK to Guangzhou on the 4th. Its a very hectic city. Lots of people, bikes, cars and buses. people riding bike on the road with ridiculous things tied to the back. we are staying on an island in the city named shamian. its very pretty, but a true tourist hub. our hostel is lovely. we thought that we were truely livinh the high life until we visited a hotel across the road that ...

Enjoyed our meetings and colleagues. Went to dinner at a typical Guangdong/Canton restaurant. Menu was very creative. Plenty of exotics - baby pigeon, sting ray, fish guts, beetles, snakes, chicken feet. Was a bit naseous, but likely because of jet lag.

Arrive after 11 pm and my company screws up the pick-up. 20 guys trying to sell me sim-cards are chasing me around baggage claim because I'm clearly not moving out. After an hour and deciding I won't be picked up, I bee-line for the first cab in lineup. The ...

Guangzhou was thankfully pretty uneventful except for this one little episode I thought I'd share...

Because of the 'swine flu' or H1N1 virus most of the border control areas scan your body as you walk through with your passport. I wouldn't have even noticed this had it not been for Ollie getting pulled aside for his very 'high temperature'. He was immediatley carted off while I had to go through immigration and wait for ...

... notes to function as money in many important situations in the economy.
Banknotes do not have to be legal tender to be acceptable for trade. Retail transactions can be carried out via cheques, or debit or cr cards, none of which is a payment using legal tender. Acceptability as a means of payment is essentially a matter for agreement between the parties involved.67
Millions of pounds' worth of sterling banknotes in ...

... Surely the Australian one had been taken down to have its daily polish! Can I help you sir? Yes, please do. Are you free for dinner this evening? My gawd she was stunning but thankfully, unlike Homer Simpson these words just rattled through my empty head and didn't make it to my mouth. Instead I told her I was having trouble locating which room the Australian Consulate was in. She then mouthed the words ...

... use and could not locate the friend again. Now those who have no passport need the assistance of the embassy, but the embassy is not prepared at all to listen to any one, so then why are they here? Many Ghanaians want to come home but cannot because what to eat even is a problem. Here in China if you don't have a passport you can not teach. Teaching is the only job one can do here. Many people come to China with F visa with the intention of changing it to Z visa so as to ...

... halls. The owner of the tomb is the second king, Zhao Mei of Nanyue State of the Western Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-24 A.D.). Hidden 20 meters (65.6 feet) underground, the tomb is made up of 750 huge stones with colorful murals. The over 1,000 pieces of cultural relics, bronze ware and terra cotta ware in particular, feature the Yue Culture of south China(Nanyue Culture). Represented also are traces of central Chinese culture ...

... efter fortsatte treckket, hovedsageligt ned af bakke, hvilket godt kunne mærkes i knæende. Hen på eftermiddagen nåede vi Tina's Guest House, som mere eller mindre markere enden på den del af treckket som er værd at se. Derefter skulle vi så ned til den gamle færgepassage. Det involverde at stoppe 8 mennesker ind i en mini-bus beregnet til 5 personer - jeg sad på en taburet i bagagerumet sammen med to andre og en masse bagage. Turen tog ca. 30min. men var ret halsbrækkende og ...