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By travellinglisa
February 10th 2008

Happy Chinese New Year

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New haircut
I now officially look like a proper Mainland Chinese girl >.< The hairdresser gave me a fringe without telling me!

Hello all! travelblog.org? Welcome to first blog entry! With the plethora of blog hosts out there, why travelblog.org then - with its non-HTML formatting (a pet hate!), google ads (equally as annoying), difficult to remember address (no one types in .org) and unfriendly user interface? Probably not the most important thing one looks for in a blog but I'm somewhat fussy about my blog applications, after being used to livejournal for 5 or so years. Well, travelblog.org is the only one which works properly in China. Most of the other popular blog sites such as blooger.com and li [View Full Entry]

By Laowai
January 19th 2008

Guizhou: where did I see that large statue of Mao before?

Asia » China » Guizhou » Guiyang

Winter Wonderland From Anshun I took the bus to Guizhou. Too bad there weren’t any stops, some of the sights where amazing. Especially the frozen rice fields. Usually when we think of rice fields the prominent color that comes to mind is green, there was no green in the rice fields these days but the replacing white made a spectacular sight nonetheless. The rice fields were not the only things that were frozen, some parts of the highway were suitable for the Dutch elfstedentocht (ice skating competition linking 11 cities). I’m wondering if the Chinese use any precautions [View Full Entry]

By Laowai
January 18th 2008

Anshun: largest waterfall in China

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Anshun

Student ‘homecoming’ train I arrived with the night train from Chengdu, hard sleeper. While not uncomfortable, space is very limited for a tall Dutch guy such as myself. Because of the upcoming Chinese New Year lots of students are traveling home and thus the average age of the Chinese traveler was much lower than normal. China being China, a train full of students didn't become a party train but staid quiet and orderly. It didn’t take long before I was chatting with two students: Tom (his English name) and LiJing. They’re both studying in Chengdu and their ho [View Full Entry]

By BunnyRabbit
December 17th 2007

Feet on the ground

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River crossing

Thursday 15th Nov First day, new home, strange place. First job of the day - get some provisions in, so we take a trip to the local supermarket Cbest. The small supermarket is not far from our apartment, in fact it seems that everything we need is not far. There are vegetable shops just outside in the street and many other small shops. Also in the narrow street are street traders, selling vegetables and other merchandise. At the end of the small street on the way to the main shopping area, is a large square/plaze, in the middle of which is [View Full Entry]

By LindsayT
December 13th 2007

Zhaoxing - Part of the Dong Family in Tang an

Asia » China » Guizhou » Zhaoxing

Dong old man
Tang'An Village

Well itchy. Well itchy. Well itchy. I haven't done shite for updating my blogs. No excuses really. Well I have been busy since I started working in September but I had 2 months in Singapore to catch up but I was lazy. Just a quick update of now. I am in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China teaching English at English First Training Centre. The city is crap but I love the friends I've made and the most my students are great. Anyway. So here I go again. I hope I can remember all the good shit. These upcoming blogs will probably be a [View Full Entry]

By BunnyRabbit
December 11th 2007

Life Underground

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Lovers
Guiyang

Our room is on the eighteenth floor of a twenty-two floor hotel and the place we are to get married is on the fourth floor - very convenient. Also housed in the same building is a Massage Hospital! Would newly weds need this I wonder? Our room is spacious with a great view of night-time Guiyang and in the distance is an illuminated temple. The room has two large single beds, just what we need for our wedding night! The reason why we have come to Guiyang to get married is simple, it is the only city in the province that [View Full Entry]

By BunnyRabbit
December 6th 2007

Hole In The Ground

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Century Park Shanghai

Thursday 25th October 07 Twenty miles of nose to tail, grindingly slow traffic is not what you want when heading to the airport to catch a flight. But this is what the M25 dished up me as I left England. I felt that either this country did not want me to leave or that my last hours here were to be sheer agony. This feeling hadn't been helped by Kevin my son getting a flat tyre before picking me up, so delaying our departure. As the hours ticked by and light faded, visions of missing the flight loomed larger but as [View Full Entry]

By Yves en Anne
November 29th 2007

Minority Report

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Xijiang
Trotse opoe naast kleindochter

Dag allemaal, Het is weer eventjes geleden dat we nog eens uitgebreid konden internetten. Travelblog bleek ook een aantal dagen achtereen ontoegankelijk voor ons, misschien was de site geblokkeerd door de overheid??? Volgens een in Amerika wonende Chinees alleszins wel... Na de rijstterrassen wilden we verder trekken naar de volgende provincie maar een voedselvergiftiging stak een stokje tussen de wielen. Overgeven, diarree en koorts kwamen en onze reisroute werd noodgedwongen ingekort tot Sanjiang waar we een hotel hebben genomen op wat op kracht te komen. De details van het hele zieke [View Full Entry]

By Sonya and Nigel
November 21st 2007

From Kaili; a spin around the back roads

Asia » China » Guizhou » Liping

Embroidery

We arrived in Guiyang off an overnight train from Chengdu. On the train we met a Chinese student (Judy) studying English as her major. We enjoyed conversation and she also helped us to retrieve our bicycles at Guiyang. During the conversation she warned us about ‘chiefs and robs’ in the area we are planning to cycle in. As this area is famous for its ethnic minority groups (aka hill tribes) I had in my mind an image of an angry chief! (however she was actually referring to ‘thieves and robbers’) China’s railway service was taking such good care of our bicycl [View Full Entry]

By kathz
November 14th 2007

Camp Guizhou- Moon Craters

Asia » China » Guizhou » Shuitang » Ziyun

The Road
Bitumen road! and what i thought was our destination- the cave.

All everyone wanted to do was to get the hell out of Guizhou. The situation was looking hopeless. If it gets worse, students would have to be sent home. It was sad really because the hosts cooked a table full of breakfast for us. At the breakfast table, I carefully avoided those fragile girls who were still shaken from last night. I sat with the my new friends who I made on camp, those who were not so easily defeated by mountains and who appreciated the hospitality of the locals. We left the village sometime between 9 and 10. Peopled eyed [View Full Entry]

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