Kitsch and Bicycle day. Visit of the Tian He Tan karst region and of the Hua Xi wetlands, both are parks, some 25km SW of Guiyang. motorbike ride to He Bin park bus station, 10Yuan. bus 211 from He Bin to Tian He Tan (terminus), 2Y. Tian He Tan karst park visit (100step bridge, boat ride through the wet cave, walk through the dry cave, Nepalese bridge over canyon 3Y, zipline over the valley 37Y) 67Y admission. minibus from Ti He Tan to Hua Xi, 6Y. bicycle ride through the wetlands, 1.5h, 20Y. bus 202 from Hua Xi to Guiyang, 2Y. city walk to the hotel, 10 minutes. !---! Novotel Guiyang Downtown, 503Yuan. ... read more

A six hours hike through the terraced rice fields, to the mountain pass, to the Miao village on the other valley. Without map, crossing just few chinese-only speaking people. With a picnic underway and a beer in the other village. A nice adventure, for the sights and for the human contacts despite the poor conversations.... read more

A long journey, full of surprises. Unfortunately, the seats in the bullet trains from Guangzhou to Guiyang were all booked. I should have booked earlier, a lesson learned. Few places for the 12:00 train, without seat, were still available. So I had to wait for 2.5 hours, and had to stand in the train for nearly half the time of the 5h30 journey. Next, the bus between Guiyang North station and Guiyang Central station took nearly one hour instead of the announced 20 minutes. Finally I had to take the 21:00 train to Kaili, arriving there at 23:30. Surprise, when showing the hotel address to the taxi drivers. Discussing thanks to Google translate tool on my tablet (fortunately with the language kits Chinese, English, Dutch and French downloaded from home, as none of the Google stuff ... read more