so it took fucken ages to get to Yangshuo, its such a awesome place and i will definitly go back there when i go back to China. so from Wuchang we took a 5.5hour bus to the tain station, the train then took 14 hours to get to Guilin, we arrived in Guilin at 6am and then got a bus Yangshuo which took maybe an hour or 2 i dont remember, so we saw the sun come up in the amazing landscape, there are rocks/limestone/little mountains just scattered across the landscape, its so beautiful and amazing to see. so we got [View Full Entry]

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So after changing our plans we took a bus to Chongqing, it was an 8 hour bus ride and our driver almost fell asleep, everyone was dozing on the bus (even the driver) when Sabine and Tom saw that the driver was starting to nod off. so they jumped up and started making noise to wake him up, after that Terry our tour guide went up the front and spoke to the drive to keep him awake. it turned out that he had been drive all night and now all day with us. the bus was pretty shitty and dirty. after [View Full Entry]

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So we arrived in Chengdu, its a cool place, we all wished we had more time here seeing it was so cool. so we checked in and then went to this cool tibetan street which was just around the corner from where we were staying. it was a cool little walk way street place. like a mall or arcade back home. we had some food and then decided to jump in a cab and go to the peoples park. it was a really nice big park with a huge tea house and ppl doing dancing and a man made lake. so [View Full Entry]

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So after a 13hr!!!! train ride we arrived in Xian and booked into our hotel. Xian is so cool its the old capital of china (i think) and had the cool wall that use to run all aroud it but the city has expanded so much that its also outside of the walls. so once we had checked in our tour leader showed us around alittle and we decided to go to the muslim area and look around. it was a cool part of the town and we looked around for a while and met a really nice local girl who [View Full Entry]

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Look im back.... so yeah thought i would pick this up again. so today i went to Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden city. i know this sounds bad but i didn't really get that excited about Tiananmen square. Maybe if i had gone in and saw chairman Moa's body it might of been more.... whats the word, i guess what im trying to say is it just felt like a public place, nothing special. So then we went to the Forbidden City and that was dissapointing, there was scaffolding all over the place and it was packed (which is to be [View Full Entry]

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So it finally stopped raining (continuation from last blog) and i decided to go for a walk, so i walked up to Tiananmen Square. it was nice and cold from all the rain that day. so i walked around and saw the lowering of the flag and then went to walk back to the hostel. On the way back i bumped into Kate, Brandy and Deven and they were going to have duck for tea and invited me aswell. so we walked around a huge block and finally got to the duck restuarant (we went the long way). It was really [View Full Entry]

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So yeah im writing this fom China but its all about New Zealand baby so lets see what i can remember.... we arrived the night before Aunty Kerrys birthday, we stayed at this awesome townhouse, unit thingy at the Viaduct, it was nice but a little noisy. So we had a suprise party for aunty Kerry at Lindas house, it was a fun night catching up with everyone, we went up the sky tower and took lots of photos and scott jumped off of it, 190ish meters i think, cant remember. we went to dads reunion, that was ok i guess [View Full Entry]

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So now im in China, Ive been keeping a diary (kinda) of China so i can remember what ive done and on what day. so here we go. The flight from Auckland to Shanghai was diverted to Japan for an hour because it was to foggy to land in Shanghai. we sat in the pane for an hour while they refueled. when we landed and the plane had stopped we all had to sit in our seats while two Japanesse ppl came on the plane with face masks on and videoed everyone on the plane. was strange but then we got [View Full Entry]

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So im sitting here and it still hasn't sunk in that i'll be leaving Australia for a year or more. Theres just to much to be excited about that i dont think i can be excited about it as a whole. Ive got Korn tomorrow night which is going to be so awesome and then i fly off to New Zealand for my auntys 60th and to spread my Ganddads ashes. After New Zealand im off to China, ive been wanting to go to China for so long and its kind of unbelievable that i am actually going, then its onto [View Full Entry]

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