I believe I left you on the day I had arrived in Guangzhou. I think it was the day when i went for dinner with the chinese guy i met in my dorm. He was ethnicly chinese but spent most of his life in australia. This was good because he could speak English and Chinese very well. At midnight he took me to a sea food market because the fresh batch comes in at midnight and so we walked around a found some shrimps which we purchased and then took to a nearby restaurant for them to cook for us. The [View Full Entry]

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Korte update, Wij zijn veilig heen en terug geweest naar het platteland en hebben ons goed geamuseerd. Het is echter vrij hectisch geweest dus wij kunnen nu niet updaten. Morgen gaan we naar Macao. Ondertussen hebben we wat foto's online kunnen zetten bij de vorige entries dankzij Bart. Wij zullen deze blog binnenkort updaten. Tot de volgende [View Full Entry]

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Eindelijk terug, en tijd om jullie een update te geven over wat er ondertussen allemaal gebeurd is. Na ons bezoekje aan HK hebben we de grens overgestoken naar China, met name Shenzhen. De overgang naar China was zeer duidelijk, niets meer in het Engels en niemand die u begrijpt. Chinezen zijn echter zeer vriendelijke mensen. Wij zaten wat te sukkelen met de metro in Shenzhen tot een student ons uit de nood hielp en zelfs onze ticket betaalde. Hij wou ons geld enkel aannemen na wat aandringen. Na een blitzbezoek aan Bart zijn we naar de luchthaven gegaan om over te [View Full Entry]

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I hung out in Guilin for about a week and didn't really do anything at all. For about a week my days consisted of walking around the city and walking thru all of the parks. I met some cool people at my hostel and just hung out with them for a little while just walking around town going to the local places and going to the night market. Guilin is a place to walk around and be outside, they have the most amazing ice cream (3 yuan/ about 40 cents) here and since it was was pretty hot it definetly came [View Full Entry]

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1. Random stabbings in Akhihabara 2. Tiger maulings in Kyoto 3. Bird flu and chicken cullings in Hong Kong. I'll go into detail on this one. Oh, and there is a number four, so just wait for that one. So when we woke up in the morning in Hong Kong, the first thing to greet us on all the papers are pictures of scientists in full contamination suits slaughtering chickens, and headlines that say something like, BIRD FLU IN HONG KONG. Oh yay... So some chickens imported from the mainland were found with the deadly bird flu strain, so the authorities [View Full Entry]

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First of all, this will probably be a longer post. I dont expect everyone to read it all haha, and as I said before, one of the main reasons for these postings is for ME to remember things too. So, it will be long, and maybe boring, but for me I enjoy reading and remembering these things. There are so many misconceptions about China! Western media and perceptions on China are so charged, with so much emotion and so many notions about the way things are here. For one, everything is ridiculously clean. Like, they are ALWAYS cleaning things. The streets [View Full Entry]

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Bij de Giggling Tree werden we opgehaald door John onze gids voor de komende 5 dagen. Na een vrij lange rit naar Chengyang van 6 uur kwamen we aan in het gebied van de Dong minorities. Mooi gebied bekend om de bruggen van wind en regen en drumtorens. Geen geldmachines hier en afgelegen. Best leuk behalve als ook blijkt dat ons onderkomen wel een behoorlijk Chiness plattelandskarakter kende. De WC was van Chinese makelij mooi geplaatst onder de douche, dus je doucht in de afvoer van de WC. Tel daar bij op dat we enkel koud water hadden, de electriciteit uitviel [View Full Entry]

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For a hot second I thought I was moving to Vietnam for the summer. I received an email from a guiding company located on the island of Cat Ba Island in Ha Long Bay asking if I was avalible to work for them for the summer; I was stoked, super stoked but in the end it didn't work out and they didn't get the project I was going to work on....oh well; maybe next year. So where did I want to go next, back to Yangshou and climb the limestone karsts I saw only a few days before. It's slow season [View Full Entry]

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We hebben al weer 3 dagen geleden Yunnan achter ons gelaten en daarmee afscheid genomen van de Tibetaanse, Naxi en Bai bevolking (veel authentieke dorpen). Momenteel zitten we in de aangrenzende provincie Guangxi in de bekende plaats Yangshuo, hier komen we meer buitelandse (en ook nederlandse) toeristen tegen. Na aankomst op Guilin airport zijn we op Chinese wijze (rechts & links inhalend en toeterend) naar ons hotel gebracht, blij dat we konden uitstappen en snel nog even het drukke centrum konden verkennen. Leuk maar erg toeristisch met de bekende winkeltjes, barretjes etc.. De volgende dag lekker ontbijten in het centrum en [View Full Entry]

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an overdue post yet again. somehow ive lost the impetus to blog; not as psyched for it as with my previous sojourn. its really an acquired skill; an art of sorts, to live by the day and to function without an agenda. as pegs would say, 'to dysfunction into function'. its almost 2 wks in yangshuo now; and the dream-like karstscape is really surreal, ethereal and picturesque all at once. its an unassuming little town abt an hr off guiling, yes you read right guilin haha. the closest semblance to that we have back home is the conspicuous and almost obnoxious [View Full Entry]

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