http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Guizhou/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Asia , China , Guizhou en-us Tue, 24 Nov 09 23:36:35 +0000 Tue, 24 Nov 09 23:36:35 +0000 Hey AllIrsquom back on campus and taking a deep breath as I decompress from our homestay that as you can tell was chockfull of adventure. Happily I can tell you that despite the little side trip to the hospital it was truly an enjoyable experience. One unexpected plus is that my Chinese is actually improving. I can now string together elementary sentences such as ldquoMy horse is fat http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Guizhou/Kaili/blog-442939.html Thursday 1st October 2009Happy 60th birthdayToday is a special day no it's not my birthday but The People's Republic Of China's birthday. It is midautumn festival holiday and National holiday combined.Today started unusually as a result of this special day it was quiet. I awoke at 7.30 having had a good night's sleep for a change nothing woke me up. I lay in bed at 7.30 listening to the won http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Guizhou/Zunyi/blog-441472.html Hey.So after I bought my plane ticket to Chongqing and I prepared to leave. Unfortunately I had to leave at like 7am. Why do I always have to leave so early But I was very upset namely because I came back to China with the understanding that I was going to Hunan and now here I am flying to Chongqing and I have way too much crap that is overweight. So after investigation More talking to the e http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Guizhou/Zunyi/Tongzi/blog-440642.html 8th of sep 800 am host's home when i saw his emailhe travel with a spanish girlhe like hershe like heso far nothing happenthat's midnight1 am.i lost my host.i have to stay in a internet coffee.i only have 20 yuan.i don't know what happen to him.why all the bad thing toward to me till he find me on 2 am.i am lucky again everydayi told myselfdon't be afraid.don't be weak.be a vagobonding http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Guizhou/Guiyang/blog-437278.html After Beijing Yini and I traveled to Guiyang capitol of the Guizhou province in southwest China. Guizhou is filled with watefalls forests mountains and other such natural delights. Here are some pictures. Enjoy http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Guizhou/Guiyang/blog-412733.html Dear friendsThe next coming days we are staying at the Miao family guesthouse. It's realy perfect to stay and sleep with the local people.Let you inform about the Miao Minority people. Read the article below.The information about the Miao minority is provided by www.china.org.cn. Many thanks foor the information.The Miao ethnic minority With a population of 8940116 the Miao people form one o http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Guizhou/Kaili/blog-399098.html Dear friendsIn this travelblog an impression of the Sister Meal festival and other Miao festivals we visited during the last 7 days. We have had a great time lots of fun and we learned a lot about the Miao people.The Sister Meal festival is for the Miaos the most important festival every year. Why Here is the information. Thanks to Tony Wang.The Sister Meal Festival.The festival repr http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Guizhou/Kaili/blog-399029.html This was our last homestay and trek in China and again we were trekking through rice terraces but having come further south and with the weather much warmer more people were working in the paddy fields. They grow the rice seedlings in large rectangular trays and then divide them into little round dishes which stay afloat in the paddy field as the workers stoop over knee deep in mud planting the http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Guizhou/Kaili/blog-393516.html Dear friends In this blog travel with us in the mountains and enjoy the pictures of the Miao peoples countrylife.One picture tells more than a thousand words.Stay tuned for our new adventures in Yunnan Provence. From Kali with love.Monkey and Bear.Lieve vrienden en vriendinnenIn deze blog weinig of geen tekst. Want een foto vertelt meer dan duizend woorden.Reis met ons mee door de bergen en erv http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Guizhou/Kaili/blog-390707.html I havent written anything on here for a long time and I realized I wrote the most while we were in India. This was not by coincidence obviously and after some quiet weeks there are new experiences popping up as we have reached China. Since leaving Ho Chi Minh City we have spent a few weeks in Malaysia Singapore and Hong Kong. All of them safe westernized modern and with fairly good levels of En http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Guizhou/Guiyang/blog-389949.html Much is said about the lsquoassault on your sensesrsquo that way so many have chosen to describe Asia. Irsquove been here in China for a year now living and working and to say itrsquos an assault is to do it an injustice itrsquos an inescapable barrageMy alarm clock goes off at 730am. Thatrsquos not so bad and after a shower I feel liberated and ready to conquer the world. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Guizhou/Guiyang/blog-374972.html Kelly Li picks the most popular eats from her home province of Guizhou.Guizhou food from the Qian minority culture is one of Chinarsquos most highly regarded cuisines. There are more than 250 popular dishes of bright colour and attractive appearance. The Qian people cook cuisine thatrsquos not only spicy and hot but also delicately tasty.But for the purposes of this article here are a mere http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Guizhou/blog-374821.html 15th February 2009I've been back in China a week now since a three week holiday in the UK. I wasn't going to write anymore of this blog but seeing that it was such an eventful trip I thought I would write a little more. Anyway it is 1 a.m. and I can't sleep. Ever since I've been back I've been unable to sleep properly I go to sleep but then all too soon I am awake and can't get back. The other http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Guizhou/Guiyang/blog-373657.html Hey Guys First of all a belated merry Christmas and happy New Year I hope all of you are taking good care of yourselves So guys it's been a while...... what to talk about this time I think I'll start by just saying my patience for living in China is starting to wear thin and hence when my contract finishes at the end of February I'll be happy to leave this country and start travelling http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Guizhou/Guiyang/blog-368287.html I have been in Panxian for nearly 18 years since I graduated from university and was allocated to work as an English teacher in a senior high school of a coal company. It was an attached school of the company Panjiang Coal which is the biggest coal and power company south of Yangtze River. The school is now being transferred to the local government since the central government don't encourage http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Guizhou/blog-360678.html That morning as the train jolted me from my slumber I woke to spectacular chartreuse light which filled the carriage. Everyone was already up sipping green tea from glass jars highlighted in the dazzle and staring out the windows. Our train came to rest on a viaduct and from beneath it yellowing green autumnal rice illuminated in the rising sun stretched to the horizon.There was no fanfare on http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Guizhou/Zhaoxing/blog-352560.html As is customary for me my plans made a sudden change. Instead of heading north and staying in Sichuan Province.. I head south for Guiyang the capital of Guizhou province.Guizhou province is the poorest province in China and inline with that one might say one of the most untouched provinces in china. I arrive at the Guiyang Train Station after 19 hours in a VERY hard seat and am greeted by my f http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Guizhou/Anshun/blog-334244.html The school trip to BaiYun Mountain was crazy.In the morning when the cold morning breeze passed my face I thought it was gonna be a chilly day. So I put on a tshirt and a jacket.Everyone was so excited to go to the BaiYun Mountain but when we arrived there it brainwashed us from all the excitement. To start from we had to keep going up hill with stairs every time when we thought we arrived t http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Guizhou/blog-333274.html All everyone wanted to do was to get the hell out of Guizhou. The situation was looking hopeless. If it gets worse students would have to be sent home. It was sad really because the hosts cooked a table full of breakfast for us. At the breakfast table I carefully avoided those fragile girls who were still shaken from last night. I sat with the my new friends who I made on camp those who were n http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Guizhou/Shuitang/Ziyun/blog-330372.html I unzipped the tent to find the searchlight glaring into my eyes. I swore at the person with contempt as they laughed at the state of my morning hair. It was 530 yet the hilltops were still silhouetted against the moon. I gave my tent buddies a nudge none budged. I gave up and made my own way to the hole trying not to look down.By 6 all tents were unzipped I had trouble rolling the mat and s http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Guizhou/blog-329947.html