Three of us spend a day in Dandong to break the long train journey from Pyongyang to Beijing. It is not a beautiful city and there was also not much to see but we still had a nice day there. We started by visiting the "One step point", this is the closest you can get to North Korea in China. It is really just one step away, but I can't say it wa...

Je suis parti pour Shenyang via Fuxin une ville ou il brule le charbon a gogo. En arrivant, on ne peut que penser de la nuage jaunatre de pollution. Les batiments sont pour la plupart carre avec un look froid ou peut-etre c'est simplement la fraicheur du matin et ma colere d'avoir eu doit a etre reveille a 3hr du matin pour changer de place. She...

Dandong.  Oh Dandong.  Dandong was wonderful.  It was the smallest city in China that we went to, and it definitely showed.  The people were much more kind, I think 5 of the 8 people on our list of 'people who smiled in China' might have come from Dandong.  AND Dandong was where we went to the Great Wall- which was by ...

Lots have happened since my last entry.  On Wednesday July 4th, I went to the Summer Palace.  It was set on a very rocky setting beside a nice lake.  It was a beautiful setting but there buildings there are seemed like form over substance.  At the palace, my camera refused to work at all.  It was acting up previously on ...

So we spent New Years sleeping in Dandong! Yeah! We didn't even make it until midnight, it was very sad. I have I think one pic, because we were so depressing. Two things that are cool about Dandong though. 1. We had an octopus pizza that was delicious 2. You can see into North Korea from the edge of the river, and there is a bridge that used to...

Ok, so its been my May holidays over here and I decided to take full advantage of the fact... I packed a rucksack, found a travel buddy and jumped on a sleeper boat over to Dalian a mere 79 miles away. The boat was really fun and we spent quite a lot of the night drinking beers and wandering around the deck taking it all in. I managed to achieve...