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Asia » China » Fujian » Xiamen » Gulangyu October 12th 2005

Forget about Hong Kong, this is much better! We arrived to Xiamen early yesterday morning. Right away we left the main island with a boat to a smaller sandy och rocky little island called Gulang Yu. With the pages ripped out from one of the guide books at the shabby hostel i Hong Kong we soon found a little hotel, somewhat rundown, but cheap and spacious. Here we were once again recogniced, looked and starred at as we must have been one of the few if not the only white people on the whole island... Even if that sometimes might get you nervous and irritated, it's definetely to prefer in front of the aloneness and anonymity of Hong Kong. It's hard to separate the components that compose a good time, happiness or what ever you wanna ... read more
Surreal Beach Views...
Beatiful rock showing it's face by low water
The great rock that named the island Gulang Yu, Sounding like a giant drum when the waves slammed it's hole, running right through it

Asia » China » Fujian » Xiamen » Gulangyu April 5th 2004

What a horrific day (or morning) we have had! We awoke about 630am, showered so that we could be on an early train to Shenzhen. This is where we cross the border into China, so we wanted to get an early start. Tony has misplaced a padlock and his keys (hopefully inside his backpack). We wore our backpacks on our backs for the first time today as we have about a 10 minute walk through the same flyover that we went through yesterday to get to the train. First hitch was that the escalator wasn’t working so we had to climb stairs so it was easier to have the backpacks on our backs but why does everything have to be uphill? We caught the train to Lo Wu, which is on the border, this train is ... read more
A friendly engineer
Minsk World
The Minsk




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