Destination: China

Gallery: Xining

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 | By phil | Photo Gallery

Xining

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 | By phil | Views [906]

Somehow managed to wake up at oh-my-god o'clock and get to Xi'an station, board my hard sleeper and sleep reasonably well.  The first thing I saw when I woke up were big mountains and drizzle - western China.  Spent most of the journey chatting a bizarre ... Read more >

Tags: general

Taxi!

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 | By chinapies | Views [824] | Comments [5]

Ok, so we take the taxi to the Macau/Zhouhai border. No sweat. As soon as we hop outta the taxi, we are beset by a very demanding porter, who insist he takes our luggage for him. This dude is at least 120 years old. Of course, such a service is ... Read more >

Tags: Adventures

Being handed a newborn was a magical moment, it irradicated the very long tiring day.

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 | By rebmason80 | Views [1148]

Our last day in Yuanyang was brilliant although the weather was a bit dire.....rain rain rain. The amazing thing though in spite of that were the clouds...they were literally on top of us, it was a very strange sight...when you could see! So Ant and ... Read more >

Tags: Laughter

china aint so great anymore...

Sun, 26 Aug 2007 | By kjones | Views [1018]

I was really looking forward to coming back to china for a week again. I was wondering what it would be like after 10 years, but it seems either my memories of what it was like are wrong, or Beijing has gone downhill since then. Already I'm just wanting ... Read more >

Gallery: Kunming

Sun, 26 Aug 2007 | By thestunnings | Photo Gallery

The end of Macau

Sun, 26 Aug 2007 | By chinapies | Views [898] | Comments [1]

Well, it's sunday now, and we're just about done with Macau. Next stage of the journey is... Chengdu! Via Zhuhai airport though, so we gotta negotiate with all of our luggage to get to the Macau border, then do everything possible to avoid stairs.... Read more >

Tags: Adventures

I conqured the Great Wall

Sun, 26 Aug 2007 | By lmc303 | Views [679] | Comments [1]

Well it is Sunday and my legs are still bloody sore from the Great Wall Walk that I undertook on thursday. Yes thats right still sore. Anyway as the story goes early thursday morning we ventured to the Jinshanling part of the great wall for a 10km ... Read more >

Tags: Adventures

Gonna miss you, Xi'an!

Sat, 25 Aug 2007 | By phil | Views [847]

So here I am waiting until FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING to catch my train to Xining, cash in hand and fingers crossed.  I love Xi'an.  What a lovely city!  Nicely balanced between the insanity of Shanghai and the lifelessness of Beijing (historical ... Read more >

Tags: General

The Tibet Saga

Sat, 25 Aug 2007 | By phil | Views [583]

Why is Tibet such an arse of a place to get to? If it were a genuine attempt by the Chinese to preserve and protect all that is sacred, unique and wonderful about the place it would be fair enough. But given that the Chinese have done their level ... Read more >

Tags: scams & robberies, tibet

Xi'an

Sat, 25 Aug 2007 | By gabyber | Views [540] | Comments [2]

Llegamos a la famosa Xi'an y como de costumbre no encontramos en hotel que buscabamos. Gracias a Dios! porque encontramos uno espcetacular por un precio que no esperabamos, bien! Lo primero que vismo de la ciudad fue un mercado alucinante de comida, ... Read more >

Tags: Culture

Gallery: Summer

Sat, 25 Aug 2007 | By alilaurel | Photo Gallery

Gallery: Funny English Translations

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 | By thestunnings | Photo Gallery

Xi'an so far...

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 | By phil | Views [458]

I'm beginning to like this city!  The main reason possibly being that food is so much easier to get here - there are mountains of places to eat, so much so that pointing at stuff is easy to do when the kanji proves impossible to read...which is most ... Read more >

Tags: Markets

Old blog

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 | By chinapies | Views [766]

Thursday, August 23, 2007 Holy flang! Ok, remember that comment I made a few hours ago about this place I'm staying being an internet-less gulag? I take it back. Completely. This place has net, and I am currently writing this post from there! ... Read more >

Tags: Adventures