Again early start, I so wish the Panda's would have there breakfast bit later, they have no consideration for once need of longer sleep. Was it worth it, well depends on how you feel about captured animals and being artificially bred, because they are on the edge of extinction as result of us humans. It was cool to see the Panda's with our own eyes, but somehow I could not help myself to get the feeling of uneasiness. Well yes they are endangered, but please do not tell me how wonderful you are because you managed successfully to bread these tame [View Full Entry]

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BANK ROBBERY After three weeks the cash was running low, we went to withdraw some money for our Horse trekking trip. In big city like Chengdu it should not be a problem, right- that is if you remember your PIN ( Group didn't). I (Romi) love my bank they have branch in here, and we have found it, would you believe it. The rest of the day we have wondered round the shopping centre, bit scared what we should have to eat as most of the dishes either have meat ( Group trying to be vegetarian) or are so bloody spicy [View Full Entry]

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JOURNEY TO SONGPAN Well this was our earliest start so far (5.50 am leaving hostel). And 8 hours on the bus heading north of Chengdu. The experience - lets say Me Renata wishes Chinese people would consider that some people are taller than 5". And Me Romi had the privilege to experience the worst toilet in the world, trust me you do not want me to describe it. ARRIVAL Someone will pick you up, our travel agent said. Well half hour standing at the station like two plonkers we have started walking towards town centre, and that our receptionist remembered she [View Full Entry]

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HIYA GUYS Just to let you know we most probably won't be on the net for 5 days also, so don't be alert, we are still alive, we think :o) We are off horse tracking, we will give you feed back when we back. Love Romi and Renata Hije lidicky Upozorneni!!! Nebudeme na prijmu asi pet dni, nebojte se, zijeme, doufame. Jedeme na vyjizdku na konich, dame vam vedet az se vratime. S laskou Romca a Renca [View Full Entry]

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HAPPY VALENTINE -yuck - you sad people.. but we love ya anyway NOT THE BEST TRIP SO FAR After managing it to get a new ticket and refund for the wrong one, off we go to see the famous Terracotta warriors. How do we get there, OK there are 3 options, green terracotta bus, bus 306 or taxi. Where did you say you saw the green bus... OK... lets go... wondering around desperately trying to see the bus, haggle hard with taxi drivers determined to not get ripped of (400Y don't think so, 200Y still no thanks) where the hell is [View Full Entry]

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JINGSHAN PARK After Me (Renata) pre-explored this park we have both returned here. Here we saw so far the most beautiful Buddha - "Vairocana = Universal Brightness = Buddha of five directions". As we had quite lot in plan shortly we went to our next stop. BEIHAI PARK As this was our second visit to this park we knew what exactly we wanted to see and missed last time NINE DRAGON SCREEN and we have walked trough beautiful park. Next stop NEW SUMMER PALACE We had only 3hours to cover 290 hectares of park in -6 Celsius with strong freezing wind. [View Full Entry]

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LAST DAY IN BEIJING We had to check out of the room by 12 noon as we were going to our next destination in the afternoon. However how the hell did we managed to pack all of our staff in the back in first place and why does is suddenly feel much heavier...well not sure, we have managed to check out about 5 minutes before we had to... The next 4 hours spent on the net and writing our blog entries... TRAIN JOURNEY Getting on the train was interesting - We against the rest, luckily Me (Romi) being cheeky jumped the [View Full Entry]

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ARRIVING TO A MAD HOUSE Once you get out of the station ( if you don't loose your ticket like me Romi) you get swamped by the amount of people, however to our pleasant surprise there was a men with sign Romana Dobrovicova - that would be me, thank you very much *giggles* First impression of Xian was not very good and did not get any better. It is as bad behind the wall as in front of it. Xian is very polluted , the sun can not even make it through smog, the streets compare to Beijing are very dirty, [View Full Entry]

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LAZY DAY in XIAN wow we can sleep as long as we want there is nothing we want to see anyway, just need to kill day waiting for our train... So we had breakfast, lunch and spent most of today on the net... And tonight we off to Chengdu - soft sleeper. Well train station - what a surprise - absolutely packed. We have managed to get through the security and found our waiting room. Our train had delay - why wouldn't it. But we have arrived in Chengdu on time. And there were people from the hostel waiting for us [View Full Entry]

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WEAKER LINK Me Romi as a weaker link in the chain of 8 become poorly and decide to take this day off and feel sorry for myself. While Me - Renata took the adventures route and went out in the big big China City by myself. As PRO Me - Renata knew where I was going and saw wonderful Jingshan Park where we both returned on the day 9. TICKET TO XIAN Next day we wanted to buy ticket to Xian and went to the bus stop which was half day walk and was closed. So we went to the Train [View Full Entry]

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