Home Inns Middle Zhonghua Road 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 ...

... paper circle and put it in your hand and then add which ever vegies you want, stacking them on...then you kind of wrap it all up except for one part...where you pour the chilli-soy-something sauce into it and then pop it straight into your mouth. :) yum, and fun!
Josh and Lyon headed back with CD and another guy who was a piercer and Josh got his eyebrow pierced!!!
after that it was time to pack up and head to the train station...destined for Kunming!

... really are enjoying delicious food. For example, for lunch today, we shared three dishes with steamed rice. A whole river fish, chilli ginger beans and garlic water spinach with steamed rice and washed down with green tea.

When we arrived in this rather large town of Guiyang I wish we had the movie camera directed on us. Helen was unsure of the way to the hotel so we stopped at some lights and she grabbed a taxi for us to follow. The traffic parted amid a deluge ...

... on the scenic and cultural attractions of Xijiang, instead of just a beautiful face. A Xiang-yi sees it differently. "Every villager is an ambassador of Xijiang," she said. "Besides, you can find girls much more beautiful than I everywhere in the village." A Xiang-yi said she has more important tasks to concentrate on for now - with the May Day holiday approaching, she has to get ready and train dozens of staff members for a tea-tasting fair. "It will be three hectic days," she said.

... to see there, a waste of time. Buy some fruit and sweets for supper in the train, and we are left at Guiyang train station, among milions of chinese people. The train has no closed cabins, and we must sleep in the beds in the middle of the corridor, more than 80 persons per wagon. This will really be an experience. Tomorrow we arrive in Guilin, after more than 17 hours in the train. I wonder if it is worth saving the hotel to suffer all this.

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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It's been a really long time since I updated this. Our semester has finished up, and Christmas and New Year's have come and gone. Not a whole lot has happened recently, though. Winter has definitely settled in. We have moved our bed into our living room, and basically treat our house as a studio apartment. There is no central heating, and the walls here are concrete, with no insulation, so we stay in the living room ...

... IN THE NEXT VILLAGE AND THEN A PROPER CHINESE COOKERY CLASS WHERE WE LEARN TO COOK THE LOCAL SPECIALITES - HOPEFULLY NOT ANY KIND OF HOUSEHOLD PET. WELL THAT'S IT FOR NOW, THIS IS ONLY A SHORT ENTRY, PROBABALY WONT GET THE CHANCE TO UPDATE YOU ALL UNTIL WE GET TO HONG KONG ON THE 19TH BUT WE'LL UPLOAD MORE PHOTO'S OF THE LONJI TERRACES THEN. TAKE CARE EVERYONE - LOVE ALEX AND MON XX