Yun Yan Guiyang

... here, Guiyang at 6pm, for a taxi driver to then take us round the block (and about 2 doors away from the bus station we got off at!) to our hotel for 10yuan, nevermind.
The hotel is clean, with aircon and a soft bed (3 things that your lucky to get in a chinese hotel) the bathroom is completely covered in plastic. It is literally a porta-loo cabin complete with sink, bath and step in shower, just placed in the corner of the ...

... and a little old, a typical Chineese place. Nobody speaks English and all the signs are in Chineese(which is their second language, after the Miao language), anyway: we manage.
Today at 9 Billy came and took us to thr CITS office, gave us good information. We go at 12:30 to a Miao village, Xijiang, where we'll spend the night. Tomorrow we'll return' pick the luggage and continue to the south.
We found this internet cafe ...

... 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 ...

Fri.22nd May. Xingyi - Guiyang.

Off at 8am and less than 30minutes into our drive...major attractions. Suspension bridge and a waterfall of many metres at Malinghe Gorge. This very deep gorge is known as (in Chinese) the Worlds Most Beautiful Scar. To view this gorge we could have gone down in a glass sided lift but we decided to take the pic's from a rickety old bridge that the adjacent new suspension bridge will replace. Actually, Dave took those pic's - it was ...

... tourism director", marveling at her beauty and dubbing her "a lotus surfacing above crystal-clear water". "You can't find such natural glamor in an office employee," a netizen wrote. A Xiang-yi works at her birthplace, a 1,000-household Miao village in Xijiang town famous for its ancient ethnic architecture. She told China Daily on Thursday that she had "mixed feelings" over the sudden rise to fame. "I'm very happy that people like me, but I'm also worried that some people ...

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 ...

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... absolutely wonderful. We had a truly nice, relaxing, wonderful vacation. After Kunming, we went up to Chengdu for our in-service conference. The weather in Chengdu wasn't as nice as Kunming, but it was still pretty nice. It was really good to see all of our fellow volunteers again. We stayed at a hotel on the outskirts of town, which meant that all of our meals were eaten at the hotel. The food during that ...

AFTER 26 AND A HALF HOURS ON A TRAIN YOU REALLY GET TO KNOW THE OTHER MEMBERS OF THE GROUP, AND ALSO THE TOP 12 PEOPLE YOU WOULD LIKE ON A NIGHT OUT - IT TOOK 6 HOURS TO SORT OUT THE CELEBRITY GUEST LIST, INCLUDING BILL CLINTON AND PAMELA ANDERSON (FOR HER CONVERSATIONAL SKILLS OF COURSE), THE INVITATIONS HAVE GONE OUT, WONDER IF THEY'LL COME....... IT'S AMAZING THE METHODS YOU CAN ...