Hejsa alle Vi takker igen igen for de mange mails, det er altid dejligt at horer noget hjemmefra. Nu har vi taget hul paa vores fjerde uge (det gaar bare alt for staerkt.) og inden vi forlader Kina vil vi lige give lyd fra os igen. Efter vi skrev sidst havde vi en endnu en dag i Lijiang, som blev brugt paa en cykeltur udenfor byen. Vi cyklede ud sammen med Daniel, britten som vi ogsaa var i Tiger Springskloften med. Da vi havde lidt vanskeligheder med en af cyklerne, maatte vi vende om for at bytte cyklen og Daniel cyklede [View Full Entry]

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After finally leaving my hotel room having not eaten for two days I passed on my bug to Steve leaving him bed bound. I'm a bad wife I know. I went for a walk having not seen any of Kunming. Getting down the road I saw loads of commotion, people waving flags and shouting "China". Without realising it I'd caught on to the tail end of the Olympic torch relay coming through the city! It was really exciting even the little kids had China t-shirts and stickers on their faces (they really know how to do merchandise over here). I followed [View Full Entry]

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We arrived in Kunming at about 2pm. Kunming is 1890m above sea level so already you find yourself adjusting to the changes and notice the mild temperature compared with Hong Kong. We negotiated for our taxi at the airport and headed straight to the Camelia Hotel, which was the meeting point for our Gap Adventures - Southern China Adventure around South West China. Can't say it was the nicest place to stay and rooms were big enough but it is drak, old and drab and just needed a good clean & paint. Other than that, we were excited to finally be [View Full Entry]

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Today I went to the western hills, just west of Xi'an suprisingly. The views were incredible,we climbed to the top sat on a chair lift and walked back down visiting the various toaist temples and Bagoda's along the way. It was very nice to be out of the city for a change in a calm and peaceful setting. Sadly Helen couldn't make it as she has caught a stomach bug, I imagine this will be the first of many for us both on this long adventure. She is getting better and has been eating today. I'm sure she'll be back climbing [View Full Entry]

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The same day stretches six weeks long, waking, sleeping - it’s the same - denying routine, denying necessity, progress, change, accepting sunlight, escaping cold, watching an apartment block’s shadow creep up the block like a giant sundial tracking the day’s journey. Ants pass aboard buses, crowded into minivans, on three wheeled bicycles laden with boxes. Measuring time with questions. What next? Feeling the victim of circumstances, easier to procrastinate, stagnate, grow weary of a love affair. My lover and I argue, see the less than perfect existence, the differences between us multiply, a beauty once compared to a constant light begin [View Full Entry]

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TO THE WARMER CLIMATE Today we were hoping to go to warmer part of China Kunming. How little did we know. But first we thought we should really see at least some of Chengdu's Temples so we GREEN RAM TEMPLE won our votes. Managed to find it with out any major problems, only we were not exactly sure that the temple we have found ourselves in front of was the one we wanted, but hey we were there so in we went. It was very beautiful temple, however we were still puzzled which one it actually was, until we met two [View Full Entry]

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STONE FORREST Great start as we were leaving the hostel it started to rain... determined not to get on the tourist bus we were left with no other option than get on the minibus and even we have asked if it goes straight to Shilin and were reassured that it does we have made one decoy stop trying to get us buy souvenirs, but as we knew what was happening we have stayed in the bus and did not get commission sticker like all the other tourist that got off it and got most probably dragged round some temple and lots [View Full Entry]

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HEADING TO LAO BOARDER As we had to leave China by the 03.03 we knew we have to head down to the boarder so the plan was to pick our visa today get ticket and cross the boarder. Buying ticket was not that difficult, sleeper bus to Jinghong than change to Mengla, then to Laos easy peasy... You would have to see the sleeping bus, me and Reni knew we would get quite close on this trip, but never realised how close that would be until we had to sleep on this bus with other three Chinese people at the back. [View Full Entry]

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Hei igjen! Naa er vi i Kunming. Har egentlig gjort veldig lite her. Vaert paa byen endel. Mye av grunnen er vel at vi for forste gang har hatt litt varmvaer. De andre har solt seg endel faktisk. Ble saa gira i Chengdu paa fotball, saa da jeg kom hit lette jeg straks etter en fotball stadio. Var ikke saa veldig stor, bare 3x kapasiteten til Grefsen stadion kanskje. Fikk likevel en fin rundtur i byen og paa universitetsplassen. Svenskene drar naa ned til Thailand og er der noen dager for de tar fly til Bali. Vi fortsetter med danskene til [View Full Entry]

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Aujourdhui on quitte la Chine pour le Laos. On a passe des mois supherbes dans ce pays extraordinaire. Les dernieres jours on a eu dans le sud de la Chine, a Guilin, Yunhshou et Kunming. Le soleil et la chaleur arrive et avec le paysage vert. Notre dernier jour en Chine est consacre a la bouffe et .... La suite viendra du Laos. Bisou Nathalie, Sara, Lisa et Heiko [View Full Entry]

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