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By Rich n Di
October 28th 2007

Rites of Passage Asia » China » Guizhou » Kaili

Have Ox will Travel

Hello from San Du in Guizhou Province. We had a lovely break in Guanling to see the waterfalls, and stayed with a very friendly family. The eldest lad was teaching himself English from the internet and doing well. He wanted to know about our journey and after seeing our family photos on the blog, with the garden in the background, he looked at Ockbrook on Google-Earth. His dad gave us a lift to the waterfalls. It was a bit of a hairy ride, though interesting to see the view from the other side of a windscreen. Since then, we have moved [View Full Entry]

By Rich n Di
October 21st 2007

The trepid travellers continue Asia » China » Guizhou » Guiyang

Petrified Women Waiting for Husband

Your asia correspondents calling from Guanling, to the north-east of Kunming. Since we last spoke we cycled back down to Kunming, via some good roads and through fine scenery. We then headed east, visiting the Stone Forest at Shilin. Not petrified or fossilised forest as you might expect, but weirdly-eroded stone formations. The local Yi people have woven some of the formations into their mythology and have ascribed names to them, such as "Petrified Woman waiting for Husband", though the likenesses are not immediately apparent. Or apparent full stop. You may judge for yourselves once I g [View Full Entry]

By Rich n Di
October 21st 2007

A life in the day of two foreigners on heavenly bicycles Asia » China » Guizhou » Guiyang

Diane resorts to Artificial Stimulants

Dear reader, to give you a taste of life on the road in China... Wednesday 10th October. We haul ourselves from bed at around 7 o'clock, and start the packing up process. We fill water bottles and eat cakes, fruit and sweet fortified milk, bought the previous evening, as a precursor to breakfast. Next a visit to the local market, to restock with fruit and snacks for the day ahead, and to search out steamed stuffed dumpings to complete breakfast. And then the climb over into the next valley begins. The road today winds for about 40 km in a series [View Full Entry]

By Devin MoHonglei
October 15th 2007

积少成多 Asia » China » Guizhou » Guiyang

Hello gente, Just writing a quick note to let those who by some stroke of fate might be thinking about me and whether or not i'm still alive or lost out in the world. I assure you i am thriving and quite alive, just busy out my ears lately, and by lately, i mean all the time. i apologise for not writing for a good long while, and if things quiet down or i feel i've made enough language progress then perhaps i'll write an update summarising all of the crasiness and interesting things that have been taking place in my [View Full Entry]

By Jabe
October 11th 2007

A change of direction Asia » China » Guizhou » Kaili

A water feature during a drought
As seen from our hotel room window

With our ultimate destination next being Kunming, we had 2 routes to get there - either through Sanjiang and Liuzhou, or through Kaili. For various reasons, Sanjiang was our preferred waypoint but, at 9:30AM when neither the 7:30AM nor 8:30AM buses to Sanjiang had come through (supposedly the only morning options), we felt forced to change our plans. Buses to Congjiang and Kaili took up the rest of the day, with uncomfortable hours of traditional music on the DVD player pitched somewhere in the screeching range. The next day we boarded a sleeper train for Kunming and, 14 hours later, were [View Full Entry]

By Jabe
October 10th 2007

The Dong show Asia » China » Guizhou » Zhaoxing

Cotton and cats

An early start saw us pootling out of Sanjiang in a bus packed with the usual mix of smokers and chunderers. It was clear when we passed from the province of Guangxi into the richer province of Guizhou, as the road suddenly became tarmaced. Shortly after entering Guizhou, there was an interesting incident that made both of us wish we could speak Mandarin. A group of men got on the bus, 2 of whom started a loud and protracted argument that eventually several other passengers joined in. Suddenly a pack of cards was produced, and there was a mad scramble by [View Full Entry]

By JohnandFrank
September 30th 2007

Rongjian en Zhaoxing Asia » China » Guizhou » Zhaoxing

Het ongeluk met vele omstanders

Toch nog een PC gevonden in Zhaoxing. Allereerst willen we even melden dat we het zo leuk vinden om alle reacties op ons log te lezen. Prachtig hoe er wordt meegeleefd. Vanuit Kaili zijn we gisteren naar Rongjiang gereden. Wederom een prachtige route door de bergen. Onderweg kwamen we in een opstopping terecht: er was een ongeluk gebeurd. Een zware oplegger had de bocht iets te nauw genomen en het tegemoet komende busje werd gegrepen. Niemand kon er meer langs. Toen wij arriveerden was er net een stevige woordenwisseling aan de gang. Het leek net of die Chinezen elkaar de hersens [View Full Entry]

Typisch winkelstraatje. Beneden werken, boven wonen

By JohnandFrank
September 28th 2007

Laatste dagje Lijiang en Kaili Asia » China » Guizhou » Kaili

Naxi orkest in Baisha

Toch nog een computer gevonden in Kaili waar we nu zitten. We zitten in een ruimte met wel 60 Chinesen die allemaal met een computer zitten te spelen. Kosten Euro 0,20 per uur. Maar eerst nog even Lijiang afmaken. Op de avond van onze eerste dag in dit oude plaatsje hebben we weer heerlijke dumpling gegeten. Maar we maken jullie allemaal te lekker met het Chinese voedsel dus daarover vertellen we nu niets. Eergisteren hebben we in de vallei rondom Lijiang een fietstocht gemaakt en een van de leukste dorpjes in de omgeving bezocht: Baisha. Dit was voorheen de voormalige hoofdstad [View Full Entry]

Ons eerste Chinese ontbijt in voorbereiding

By B n B
September 27th 2007

Stev's party, my party and gost day Asia » China » Guizhou » Guiyang

Stev's party

hello, hello how goes? [View Full Entry]

By B n B
August 31st 2007

some more pics Asia » China » Guizhou » Guiyang

my neighbourhood

Hi everyone, I hope you are all doing well. (this is Brigid by the way) Anyhow just quick note to say what we have been up to. We are teaching 5 days a week about 15hr to 18hr all different ages and levels. Teaching is fun and I am getting used to it. The school is ok but the investor can be a very tight pocketed. As a result the resources are not great and the Chinese staff get paid fuck all. This is a shame because everyone works hard but I suppose from what I have seen business in [View Full Entry]

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