Wangfu Hotel Lanzhou

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... just throw their garbage on the ground and the country side and little streams are littered with trash. Our translator, Donald, told us that it is the Chinese way as he threw a food wrapper on the ground. The open sewers are another story completely, but I'll save that for another day. It's almost dinner time.....probably have some Chinese.

... City with Luo Wei.. Ying is from Zhengzhou which is the capital of Henan Province and only an hour away from Kaifeng. While we are on the subject of me having another few months off to travel, I've been told I finish teaching at the end of December and that the new term begins around the end of February. I can't say that will happen and I'm preparing to finish teaching around the ...

... and then continued on their way up the hill. The walk was beautiful and it takes a few hours to get from the bottom, all the way across to the third Pagoda and then back down to the bottom again. It was growing dark as I left the third pagoda but thankfully half the town was on the hill for their evening walk so I had no problem finding my way back down. I am serious and most of them would be over ...

... I threw back? And that was just the climax of a four day ride across the desert where I didn't know where I was half the time, landed up sleeping in tiny towns that do not seem to exist on any map, and got stuck in some crazy parallel time zone. Where the hell am I, and what time is it? Odd questions to ask when standing in a bus reservation office. And that was just crossing one province of China, Xinjiang - bigger than Alaska, and home of the Uighurs, who speak a kind of ...

... 1000 stairs just to get to it and then some challenging walking once you are there. We took the toboggan run down which is basically the world's longest super slide. Totally fun! Tomorrow, it's back to swimming. Christine is the presumptive butterflyer on the relay. The coaches haven't announced it officially yet, even if Katie Currie and Matt Lauer have. So the plan for tomorrow is to ...

... showers were some of the worst that we saw in China (quite an honour). There was a squat toilet (that didn't seem to flush or have a bucket of water near it) right next to the shower and the only shower with hot water didn't seem to drain. By perching on the edge of a row of bricks between the toilet and the shower you could avoid the twin risks of falling into the pool of everyone else's shower water or the alternative ...

... days ago. Thankfully, we've heard from our friends who teach English to Chinese students in that area, all of whom are safe and sound. Despite being felt as far south as Hong Kong and even into Vietnam, we in Jiangyong, sounthern-ish Hunan province didn't feel a thing, nor did we learn about it until Craig figured out what exactly he was watching on the Chinese news program he had tuned into to practice his Chinese. The English channel CCTV-9 didn't have anything about it yet, so we ...

Posted by Emily: Our second train was a decidedly different experience from our first. We booked a 'hard seater' rather than a 'hard sleeper' and it was indeed harder. We sat upright, facing strangers with very little leg room between. We again appalled the watchful crowd by standing on the seats with shoes on (disgusting Americans) but settled down for our nine hour trip to the small(er) city Lanzhou, another leg in the journey ...

... tourist was killed on a bus somewhere in Northern Sichuan. Instead of treating the death/lawsuit as a wake-up call to improve safety and driver skill in the Chinese public bus system, the government instead levied a tax against all foreigners to try to make back the money). The scenery was not so great on this one, mainly passing through lots of islamic towns, where a man ...