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Ashley_Laura - Ashley and Laura's Travel Blog | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 2 Comment(s) | 21 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=195573] | 2007-08-24 10:35:27
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Areas in Hunan: Changde | ChangSha | Fenghuang | Guilin | Hengyang | Leiyang | Liuyang | Xiangtan | Yueyang | Zhangjiajie | Zhangjiasai | Zhuzhou
Oh boy this is going to be a long one. We haven't placed an entry since leaving Beijing & since then we've headed south & west through China visiting Taiyuan/Pingyao, Xi'an, the Yangtze River (Yichang to Chongqing), Chengdu, Lhasa (Tibet) & Wulingyuan/Fenghuang. OK since we can't write about everything we've experienced, we'll give you the highlights of the things we loved most. Pingyao was a nice little city & had many historical sites to visit, our favorite being the Qiao ancestral home. It has many rooms to show what life was like for a wealthy capitalist in the Qing Dynasty in [View Full Entry]
By Danz
August 18th 2007
August 18th 2007
Anren No.1 Middle School, my new home.
Asia » China » Hunan » Hengyang » Anren
I have been invited to teach in a small town in Hunan Province (Chairman Mao's birthplace). My small town is called Anren. The students have never had a Foreign teacher and many people have never seen a foreigner. So I will not only be representing Australia, but every Western Foreigner. I am sure my quirks, mannerisms, personality and character will be looked upon with a magnifying glass and thought of as the norm for foreigners. I arrived at my new school which is in a very rural area. We (Dana from The USA & I) were driven 3 hours off the [View Full Entry]
Danz - Daniella Wilkie | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 3 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=193527] | 2007-09-21 12:00:39
Woke at 5.30 am, heart filled with joy, dancing around the hotel room, bluebirds serenading me as I packed. Why the life filled with love and laughter? I hear you all ask. Well, today I am leaving YueYang's Sinopec compound, and will be freed. William was so embarassed about the job not working out, that he decided to treat us to a mini-tour of his university town, only abaout two hours away. I would have preferred to leap on the first bus outta here, but am also very stingy, and wanted to take advantage of a free holiday. William and [View Full Entry]
ErinOB - Erin OBrien | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 2 Comment(s) | 28 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=183082] | 2007-07-14 00:00:00
By ErinOB
July 13th 2007
July 13th 2007
Isn't there a saying about piss-ups and breweries?
Asia » China » Hunan » Yueyang
William, one of our students, has an image of himself as a master businessman. About two months ago, he decided to set up a school, in the town his girlfriend's father lives. He offered us places as teachers, 10,000 kuai each a month, for two months. Apartment, flights paid for, the works. Wow, says us. This sounds like a fantastic plan. Making loads of bucks, seeing a different part of China, good hiking down there, and we'd have enough money to afford stuff when back in England for a week or so, rather than having to beg poverty and drink other [View Full Entry]
ErinOB - Erin OBrien | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 3 Comment(s) | 0 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=181393] | 2007-07-13 00:00:00
I arrived in Changsha after about 7 hours on the bus. Unfortunately we pulled into a remote bus station and so I had to catch a cab into the center. Once I got to the train station I called Dan and arranged to meet up with him in about an hour. In the meantime, I headed over to Micky D's to get some food and find some peace amid the chaos of big-city China. Well, I got food, but peace was not forthcoming inside the packed McDonalds. It seems that McDonalds is big in China, very big. I did managed to [View Full Entry]
where to - Andrew Carter | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 1 Comment(s) | 5 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=137716] | 2008-03-31 17:28:57
By China 2006 2007
March 3rd 2007
March 3rd 2007
Huaihua en Fenghuang - Praktisch informatie
Asia » China » Hunan » Fenghuang
Huaihua We namen vanuit Zhenyuan de trein naar Huaihua (22Y voor een staanplaats, 3 uur). Daar namen we de volgende dag een bus naar Fenghuang. Deze bussen vertrekken vanaf het Westelijk busstation (Qiche xi zhan). Ongeveer 400m lopen van het treinstation: kom je uit de treinuitgangen, neem dan de 1ste straat rechts, daarna de 3de straat links. De bussen rijden van ongeveer 7h30 's morgens tot ongeveer 8h 's avonds maar hebben geen vaste vertrekuren, ze vertrekken als ze vol zitten. 35Y voor een rit van ongeveer 2uur30. Het landschap waar je doorrijdt is nog steeds he [View Full Entry]
China 2006 2007 - Berna en Wim | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 0 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=147597] | 2007-03-03 00:00:00
This journey has been going now for quite sometime.... I've got a website running called 'Chinawheelie', but I've decided to post a few entries here up until this point. In the last year I've cycle a long way, through searing heat, torrential rain, gail force winds, sand and snow storms. I also found a puppy that now travels on the back of 'Little Wheelie' (my tricycle) and met a girl in Beijing who I asked to marry. She stupidly said 'yes'. The scarey part is that this journey is only just starting really. I've covered the whole of the South, Central, [View Full Entry]
China Wheelie - Rob Luxton | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 0 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=134207] | 2007-03-02 11:19:59
By China 2006 2007
March 2nd 2007
March 2nd 2007
Naar Fenghuang en bezoek van de oude stad.
Asia » China » Hunan » Fenghuang
Vrijdag 2 maart. Vanochtend deden we het rustig aan: we hadden immers tickets voor 12u20 voor onze rit naar Huaihua. Berna bleef na het ontbijt wat op de kamer werken aan de voorbereiding voor het volgende stuk van onze reis, namelijk in Hangzhou. Ik ging nog wat van de verslagen van Ria en Pieter op de weblog plaatsen. Rond 10u namen we een taxi naar het station, waar de rijen voor de trein richting Shanghai nog langer waren dan twee dagen geleden. Gelukkig hoefden we ons daar niet tussen te begeven. Op het moment dat we in de wachtzaal kwamen, [View Full Entry]
China 2006 2007 - Berna en Wim | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 3 Comment(s) | 20 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=139445] | 2007-03-18 07:19:51
The morning was chilly on top of the mountain, a rather crisp start to the New Year. Zhangjiajie was experiencing a bit of a cold spell, not the most desirable of conditions when your hotel room is devoid of both heat and heavy blankets. But then again, it wasn’t really much of a hotel in the first place. Following my aimless, foggy wanderings of the night before, and the bus that proved to be my salvation, I was deposited once again in what seemed to be the middle of nowhere. Dark and desolate, a large man standing singly in the [View Full Entry]
TrojanTraveler - Peter Winter | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 1 Comment(s) | 7 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=132577] | 2007-02-25 07:58:24
By TrojanTraveler
February 17th 2007
February 17th 2007
To Tell You the Truth, I Don't Know
Asia » China » Hunan » Zhangjiajie
Senlin Gongyuan was a ghost town this morning. Known as Zhangjiajie Village by some, the small town at the base of Wulingyuan Nature Reserve seemed to be more a setting for some bad horror movie than the booming tourist spot it claimed to be. Chinese New Year was fast approaching, and it seemed the entire town had disappeared for the festivities. The empty four-star hotels, now locked up with loose chains and wood planks, were wrapped in a thick blanket of gray fog. A single motorized rickshaw putters down the open street, vanishing into the dark nothingness beyond. I had grand [View Full Entry]
TrojanTraveler - Peter Winter | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 1 Comment(s) | 7 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=130676] | 2007-02-19 12:56:47