Blogs from Nanning, Guangxi, China, Asia - page 3

Hi again!! I finaly sat down to actualy write some of the entries now. So There will be a few! We arrived in Nanning by plane, it was a rather small airport 40 minutes outside the city. We went outside to find a bus or taxi. Again we had som trouble commuicating with the locals. But we met a guy who translated for us and got a cab which drove us in to the city and pointed frantictly in through some trees. We searched the area for half an hour until we met someone who actualy knew where the hostel was. The Nanning City Hoste is more a guesthouse, realy cool. It is owned by an american called Weston, who is very helpfull and a cool guy. It is a "small" town. Only about 2 million. ... read more

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While researching train information from China to Vietnam we found very little info so I wanted to share our recent experience. We took the T8701 train from Nanning, China to Hanoi, Vietnam departing at 6:45pm and arriving in Hanoi at 5:45am(4:45am Hanoi time). Cost for 2 people in a soft sleeper(4 people in a berth) 456RMB=$66.76 There was confusion as when we got on the train half of the train is green(China side) and the other half red(Vietnam side). Anyone getting off the train in China sat in the green side and those of us traveling on to Vietnam were in the red cars. You must depart the train with all your luggage when exiting China at Ping Xiang station 10:11pm, board back onto the train once cleared customs. Then again do the same thing for ... read more

At 10am Jacky arrived at the hotel as promised. Our first stop would be his place of work. He’d told his colleagues about a Scotsman he met and they were keen to meet me, so much so that a few of them turned up with cameras to take their pictures with me. I was game and they were all friendly so no harm no foul. I wasn’t made to feel like a circus animal. We met one of Jacky’s friends and our party of 3 headed across the plaza to the Wall Mart where I bought the ingredients for lunch, we got the bus to Jacky’s flat where he had me show him some of many photos from around his country. This took longer than planned so we decided to forego the museum visit. As I ... read more

Our hostel in Nanning was everything that China had appeared to be to us so far: modern, clean and mildly friendly. Food had suddenly become an issue as for starters I'm vego, but also reading a menu was impossible unless is was in English (which was rare). The first night I ordered “Fried Vegetables Just” and got a huge plate of wilted spinach, with boiled rice of course. The second night we went to a vegetarian restaurant where I ordered “Seasonal Stir-fry Vegetables”, and again got a plate of wilted spinach. Nick tucked into some crispy skin “chicken” that I was hesitant about and said it was pretty good. Phoebe was rather miffed about not getting the real deal, as Chinese seem to be very enthusiastic about their fake meat. A specialty here is 'Dog Hotpot', ... read more