Xiamen Yiyuan Hotel

... I went round looking for internet but could not find any and the hotel were charging an arm and a leg so this has had to wait 24 hours - but that's another story.

In the morning we wander around the streets and take in the ambience. There is a Chinese residential area as well as the tourist area, although apparently it is hugely expensive to live here. It sounds like a small flat costs well over 100,000 pounds in this coastal part of China and it's hard to imagine how most ...

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... to a place called lushan whice is more in centrail china should by cooler and there is some mountains to clime and a nice place to chill out and get away from all there tourest with flags and mega phones lol

i hopfully should be able to update my blog in lushan but there may be no internet or at least bad internet lol

anyways take care

peter xxx

... apart but I had gone too far to step back now. Hangzhou airport was a surprise too, I expected a dimly lit hall with three airplanes departing daily but it was a huge, busy airport with a very interesting cathedral-shaped roof and could be entered into any airport design contest. Ninety minutes later I was in the deep south, it was warm, no wind, and when I walked around long after dark to get some dinner, wearing a T-Shirt and no jacket, I knew I had done something right.

I was not too worried about food. We Indians are terrific at adapting! We may crib a bit about food (can't blame us - Indian food, I have realised by now, is the best in the world - we have 350 ways of making potatoes, fantastic variety, and keeping in mind that india runs from Nagaland and Mizoram to Gujarat to Malvan to Kerala to Andhra pradesh to Punjab to Kashmir to ...

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... booth and an endless supply of peoples wanting a bit of action so don't even try to get the price down unless its raining. As none of us had been in a speed boat for uncountable years we forked over the 30 Yuan a head and donned the life jackets and with the smell of boat fuel and salt water we sped around the island of Gulang Yu. The trip only ...

... window at rural China that's nigh on impossible to get to if you don't speak the language, all without the feeling like there's something that I should be doing. I arrived in Xiamen feeling quite refreshed, and the bright blue skies and - surprisingly - warmth were more than welcome. As always seems to be the case, someone immediately tried to ruin the mood. This time, a taxi driver, who tried to charge me 3 times what he should, despite the correct fare being blatantly ...