http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Guizhou/Guiyang/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Asia , China , Guizhou , Guiyang en-us Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:48:32 UTC Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:48:32 UTC The school decided to let us off with a week A whole week to not teach and also to give us some spending money so wasn't going to pass off this opputunity to get out of the province. Felt like Yunnan was getting too small for me in relation to traveling. So I looked up on the good old ctrip for cheap flights and one of the cheapest was to Guiyang which I had never heard about and there was bare http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Guizhou/Guiyang/blog-328955.html Thursday 21st August. My journal continues A tale of two lighters.They get you in the end they always do.Irsquom approaching British security at Heathrow and find a lighter in my pouch. I quickly unzip my case and put it inside the case believing that I should not carry it in the plane but not wanting to throw it away because I might want to light a cigar at the other end of my arduous tra http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Guizhou/Guiyang/blog-320341.html Wednesday April 9th 2008I'm sitting writing this entry from Guiyang I still haven't set off on my trip yet. I spent last week travelling to Nanning to put my passport into the Vietnamese Embassy to get my Visa sorted. I took an interesting picture in the Nanning Bus Station a good example of the beauty that is 'Chinglish.' Check out the Bus Station Loving Service not a dating service or http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Guizhou/Guiyang/blog-264625.html Hello alltravelblog.orgWelcome to first blog entry With the plethora of blog hosts out there why travelblog.org then with its nonHTML formatting a pet hate google ads equally as annoying difficult to remember address no one types in .org and unfriendly user interface Probably not the most important thing one looks for in a blog but I'm somewhat fussy about my blog applications a http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Guizhou/Guiyang/blog-244505.html Winter WonderlandFrom Anshun I took the bus to Guizhou. Too bad there werenrsquot any stops some of the sights where amazing. Especially the frozen rice fields. Usually when we think of rice fields the prominent color that comes to mind is green there was no green in the rice fields these days but the replacing white made a spectacular sight nonetheless. The rice fields were not the only thing http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Guizhou/Guiyang/blog-240200.html Thursday 15th NovFirst day new home strange place. First job of the day get some provisions in so we take a trip to the local supermarket Cbest. The small supermarket is not far from our apartment in fact it seems that everything we need is not far. There are vegetable shops just outside in the street and many other small shops. Also in the narrow street are street traders selling vegetable http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Guizhou/Guiyang/blog-228231.html Our room is on the eighteenth floor of a twentytwo floor hotel and the place we are to get married is on the fourth floor very convenient. Also housed in the same building is a Massage Hospital Would newly weds need this I wonderOur room is spacious with a great view of nighttime Guiyang and in the distance is an illuminated temple. The room has two large single beds just what we need for http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Guizhou/Guiyang/blog-226712.html Thursday 25th October 07Twenty miles of nose to tail grindingly slow traffic is not what you want when heading to the airport to catch a flight. But this is what the M25 dished up me as I left England. I felt that either this country did not want me to leave or that my last hours here were to be sheer agony. This feeling hadn't been helped by Kevin my son getting a flat tyre before picking me up http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Guizhou/Guiyang/blog-225513.html Hi again fowks this blogging thing has been running into all sorts of delays and hiccups not sure where the blame lies. Could be me not a lot of time with work and socializing and that could be the computerhellip.one thing all should know about Chinahellip.nothing workshellipincluding our PC. We had a big ass system crash after having a shop in town fix a couple of things so muggings he http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Guizhou/Guiyang/blog-217850.html Dear reader to give you a taste of life on the road in China...Wednesday 10th October. We haul ourselves from bed at around 7 o'clock and start the packing up process. We fill water bottles and eat cakes fruit and sweet fortified milk bought the previous evening as a precursor to breakfast. Next a visit to the local market to restock with fruit and snacks for the day ahead and to search http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Guizhou/Guiyang/blog-212978.html Your asia correspondents calling from Guanling to the northeast of Kunming. Since we last spoke we cycled back down to Kunming via some good roads and through fine scenery. We then headed east visiting the Stone Forest at Shilin. Not petrified or fossilised forest as you might expect but weirdlyeroded stone formations. The local Yi people have woven some of the formations into their myth http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Guizhou/Guiyang/blog-212969.html Hello genteJust writing a quick note to let those who by some stroke of fate might be thinking about me and whether or not i'm still alive or lost out in the world. I assure you i am thriving and quite alive just busy out my ears lately and by lately i mean all the time. i apologise for not writing for a good long while and if things quiet down or i feel i've made enough language progress the http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Guizhou/Guiyang/blog-211347.html hello hellohow goes http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Guizhou/Guiyang/blog-206069.html some more pics http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Guizhou/Guiyang/blog-197696.html Hi everyone I hope you are all doing well. this is Brigid by the wayAnyhow just quick note to say what we have been up to. We are teaching 5 days a week about 15hr to 18hr all different ages and levels. Teaching is fun and I am getting used to it. The school is ok but the investor can be a very tight pocketed. As a result the resources are not great and the Chinese staff get paid fuck all. Th http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Guizhou/Guiyang/blog-197659.html Hey folksBeen a little while huh Wersquove been sooooo busy at the school wersquove had the summer school which is just about to finish yay Yeh just in case you donrsquot know B n B are in China now wersquore both teaching English to the best of our ability but it can be a little tricky at times. The city wersquore living in is called Guiyang itrsquos in the http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Guizhou/Guiyang/blog-193199.html Guiyang My days here in Guiyang consist of roughly 10 hours of teaching. I teach 20 aspiring English Tour Guides the English language in the context of Tourism etc... from 900am530pm with a 2 hour break for lunch and time to prep for the following dayrsquos class. Though I am tired to the point of losing all abilities of comprehension I love every minute of this liv http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Guizhou/Guiyang/blog-192407.html Vi glemte helt at skrive hvad der er sket mellem Chengdu og Guangzhou. Det skal lige naevnes at Claus har vaeret daarlig de sidste to dage saa vi har mest set hotelvaerelset og dets TV 04 kanaler paa engelsk primaert fra Hong Kong. Vi naede dog at se lidt af byen og skal forhaabenlig se mere saa der kommer snart en 'entri' om byen herEfter E'mei Shan tog vi tilbage til Vi havde haabet paa en http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Guizhou/Guiyang/blog-187538.html Guizhou population 8940 116 Our guide for Guizhou took us trekking to some of the more remote Miao ethnic minority villages. The Miao people are the largest minority groups in China and divided into branches including Black Hmong White Hmong and Stripped Hmong depending on their dress. Here people believe that everything has a spirit that controls their destiny. So during disasters an eld http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Guizhou/Guiyang/blog-160694.html Donderdag 8 februariDeze morgen staan we op om 6u30 en ontbijten we rustig om 7 uur. Het restaurant is nog quasi leeg. De dienster van de vorige avond met het grappige snoetje die haar neus opkrult als ze lacht is weer van dienst. We vertrekken om 9 uur met de bus naar het Qiangling Shan Park waar een mooi boeddhistisch tempelcomplex boven op de berg ligt. Het is te voet bereikbaar over het Neg http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Guizhou/Guiyang/blog-131928.html I have moved I am no longer in Beijing but in a thriving backwater metropolis is that an oxymoron of just over 3 million people. I am living in Guiyang which is the capital of Guizhou province. For those paying attention this is the same place that I visited in May of this year. I enjoyed the area so much the first time around that when I saw an opening for teachers down here I decided I co http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Guizhou/Guiyang/blog-84852.html As you know I am now in Chengdu the capital of Sichuan province and hundreds of kilometers from the Dragonrsquos Backbone and the Longji Rice Terraces. Now I could have gotten here the easy way by going back south to Guilin and catching a train to Chengdu. It would have taken two days and would have been very easy. However I decided to do it the hard way.The hard way and you will need a ve http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Guizhou/Guiyang/blog-54168.html