Xige Hotel Xiamen

... understand what we needed. They took us from one aisle to the other showing us everything from toilet paper to toilet bowl cleaner and still no one knew what we meant. Finally, while leaving the store, we found one, but it was definitely a close call. The people were very sweet, but definitely new to the tourist trade.<br>

... group seem to have the ubiquitous eggs and cake - rather them than us. We revisit the "King of Tulou" (it was almost dark when we passed by first) - the largest of them all which has over 200 rooms and once had around 600 people living there, now there are only 400. Despite the drop in population it's interesting because they have not turned the inside into a hotel or shopping experience and so it does feel like someone's home (well 400 someones!). We can climb up to ...

... is another concrete jungle and sits on a very rugged coastline so is quite a spectacular jungle. We have a fast drop off at the Ferry Terminal to Gulang Yu; the ferry takes about 5 minutes to cross as it is less than a kilometer. The ferries run 24 hours and are very frequent. As it's Sunday the place is heaving with Chinese tourists - apparently Gulang Yu is very popular with locals. It's continuing very warm and we have regained the humidity as we came back to the coast, so the sea ...

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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<br><br>i hopfully should be able to update my blog in lushan but there may be no internet or at least bad internet lol<br><br>anyways take care <br><br>peter xxx

... winter is coming. I guess Santa is already waiting up there in the northern plains of Novosibirsk, all packed up and ready to go. After breakfast I felt it is time to become active or freeze to death, so I enquired about air tickets to somewhere warm. Hainan island was quite a long way, but the girls at the reception got me a very cheap ticket to Xiamen, a place on the southeast coast I always wanted to visit, with a forecast promising more than 20 degrees down there ...

... Riyuegu Hot Springs and were pleasantly surprised by what we saw. After we checked in and got changed we walked into this oasis of hot tubs of every flavor, from Curry to wine to peppermint, milk, aloe vera, beer, wine, coffee, rosemary, pineapple and coconut and all sorts of teas. The place looked like the club med of hot tubs! There were massage areas and spas along the way. They were categorized by drinks, herbs, teas, etc. We were in such ...

... As usual, the streets are full of Chinese day-trippers stocking up on the local sweets and clockwork zebras that walk round in circles. Chinese tourists will buy anything! We have seen very few European tourists though. This is very much a local tourist scene. I am writing this in the grounds of the Xiamen Museum, yet another stately building with a mildly interesting display of cultural artifacts, more stone art, a couple of organs ...