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Zuitaiping Hotel Xichang

Haibin Road Xichang, Sichuan, China

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'Not so' Soft Sleeper from Yichang to Lizhou

A travel blog entry by burgessdempsey

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... on a strictly noodle diet on the overnight trains, we managed to find one hot water boiler in a cupboard six carriages and '50 years back in time' away, which was heated by a coal fire underneath it. In a way it's good to see that the health and safety police haven't found China yet.

Noisy rolling stock and cigarette smoke wafting throughout the strictly 'no smoking carriages' meant overall not a lot of sleep!
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De miau

A travel blog entry by eva_op_stap

op de bus hier naar toe was de enige andere westere mens, een hollander. we zijn samen naar xichang gegaan. deze dorpjes zijn de woonplaats van de miau minderheid, deze hbben ent als de anderen een knot vaaraan op het hoofd maar deze keer met een grote bloem in, en vestje in verschillende kleuren. als je het dorp binnekomt wordt je door een aantal vrouwen verplicht om rijstwijn te drinekn uit een hoorn. gelukkig is deze niet al te sterk.
dit dorpje is ook behoorlijk toeristisch. ...

Workcamp in TaErDi village, Sichuan

A travel blog entry by runningmuffin

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Ten days in the middle of nowhere. Literally!
It was quite an experience, the first time for me to go to the Chinese countryside, a village you cannot reach by car. Really enjoyed it though, wonderful people! Especially some of the older ones. I mean, I couldn't talk to them (some of them could not speak anyway) but just saying hello to them, trying to tell them where I'm going (when I was on my way to the kitchen, that worked pretty well!), sitting down with them and showing ...

Finally some heat!

A travel blog entry by jendrix

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... her all the girls want very pale skin so they all use whitener!...not quite sure what it is whether it bleaches the skin or what...but its everywhere...it took me ages to find a sun screen without it in...and to my dismay, yesterday I noticed that the shower gel I bought in Beijing, which I have been using for the past 12 days, has whitener in it! I think I'm white enough cheers! Anyway bye for now! Pics on my facebook if you wanna check them ...

My god, I am the first Westerner they've seen

A travel blog entry by happysheep

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... the big cities and main tourist routes for a glimpse at some of the remote and rural parts of this vast and varied country. There are five of us loaded into a four-wheel-drive on a two-week road trip of about 4000 kilometres: a driver, a local guide, a photographer and our host, Peter Schindler, a Hong Kong-based entrepreneur and former formula two driver who has turned his passion for switchbacks into ...