It was hard getting up in the dark to catch the train, but we made it and settled down to watch the world go by for 12 hours. If all went according to plan, this was to be our last full day in China and we were both beginning to think about what we'd miss about it. Certainly not the spitting or smoking, but the friendliness of the people, the fo...

I took a "luxury coach" from Yangshuo to Nanning. Nanning is the jumping off spot for trips across the Vietnamese frontier. Actually, the seats on the bus were nice--only three across the bus and I had the single. They looked like business class seats on a plane. Unfortunately, they put them to close together so there was no leg room. It took ab...

Arrived in Nanning and it's beautiful...very clean for a Chinese city...On foot today I visited many shops and such...I was pretty much the only westerner around, so I was glared at more than once...Nothing interesting really happened it Nanning, except for the time when all the street vendors fled from me...or so I thought they were fleeing fro...

Hey Hey and G'day to everyone, Before I begin, HAPPY MOTHERS DAY TO YA MAR KETTLE I HOPE YOUR DAY WAS AS SPECIAL AS YOU ARE Sorry I didn't ring, I actually FORGOT it was Mothers Day. SORRY! SORRY! SORRY! For the reader, I did remember later that evening and sent a text message from the Market Place. Oh the wonders of the modern world. How a sim...

Staying in the worst hotel at the moment, it is in a town called Nanning, we are only here as we are waiting to take a train to Vietnam but it doesn't go until tomorrow night. There are no hostels and I get the impression that Westerners are a very rare commodity, causing much delight amongst the locals. I have taking to saying hello in Chinese ...

25/3 - 26/3 After another transfer night back to the hotbed of phlegm that is downtown Guangzhou, I have flown to the capital of Guangxi province, Nanning. Faced with the choice of a 10 hour busride with the remnants of the flu, versus a one hour trip on Lottery Airlines, I chose to invest $85 in the flight on a China Southern plane. Even at Gua...

We took a day trip to Macau, an island nearby that was formerly a Portguese colony and still bears many remnants of that culture, from the food to the architecture. There was a huge celebration going on by the ruins of St. Paul-- a church facade that still stands from 1602 atop the highest point on the island. Below there were hundreds of chines...

Nanning is my home town, i was born there, and it is called the green city of china ! it is on subtropical area, nice winter( it doesnt get too much cold). and it is near HK and Gunagzhou. convenient transportation. It has more than 1600 years old history here. And there are about 6.5 million population. The main nationality is Zhuang race. Ther...