http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Hunan/Fenghuang/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Asia , China , Hunan , Fenghuang en-us Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:19:12 UTC Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:19:12 UTC Getting from Yangshuo to Fenghuang was always going to be interesting. I did a little internet research on the matter and found a range of blogs warning of impossible connections language nightmares and neardeath experiences on the bus. Undeterred Chris and I thought we'd have a go anyway. Getting to Guilin an hour's bus journey to the north proved easy enough. Next stop Huaihua. We opted f http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Hunan/Fenghuang/blog-285834.html Fenghuang are mythological Chinese birds that reign over all other birds. The males are called Feng and the females HuangI leave Yangshou with yet another slight hangover and get to Guilin.. OF COURSE I HAAAAD TO miss the train by 10 minutes so booked into Flowers hostel again until the next day here I meet .....John as in John Candy look alike... American guy that lives in Beijing got chattin http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Hunan/Fenghuang/blog-285369.html We are now in the town of Fenghuang. We arrived thismorning at 600am after catching a local bus from Yangshuo to Guilin 2.5 hours. We then had to get a bus from Guilin to Huaihua 14 hours along dangerious roads high up in the mountains. Finally we got another cramped local bus which passed beautiful rice paddies and old towns into Fenghuang 2 hours . We did all this using sign language a http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Hunan/Fenghuang/blog-274772.html I finally said goodbye to Fenghuang on Monday. Irsquod spent my last day taking it easy. The rain had descended on the town and there wasnrsquot a lot to do. I did get up early on Sunday morning and managed to beat the rain in time to climb to the top of a small hill to see the Heavenly King Temple Tianwang Miao There is a rather steep and at times slippery path which leads to the top but http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Hunan/Fenghuang/blog-255446.html My next destination was to Fenghuang in Hunan province. I knew that it was going to be a long journey there so I'd mentally prepared myself for one or two problems along the way. It started relatively easy by jumping on a bus from Yangshuo back to Guilin. I then had a short wait in Guilin as the rained drizzled down. It was then a ten hour train ride to Huaihua a small nondescript town in Hun http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Hunan/Fenghuang/blog-254308.html My next destination was to Fenghuang in Hunan province. I knew that it was going to be a long journey there so I'd mentally prepared myself for one or two problems along the way. It started relatively easy by jumping on a bus from Yangshuo back to Guilin. I then had a short wait in Guilin as the rained drizzled down. It was then a ten hour train ride to Huaihua a small nondescript town in Hun http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Hunan/Fenghuang/blog-254307.html It's been exactly one week since we left the cozy confines of Hong Kong and crossed into mainland China at Shendzhen. Under the stern gaze of the Chinese Police we nervously handed our passports and tourist visas to the immigration officer. At this point we had no idea what to expect...As we made our way through the Shendzhen train station we knew we needed to catch another train...most probably http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Hunan/Fenghuang/blog-236057.html Hello againThis is the continuation of our epic journey in China.The last leg of our journey before reaching Fenghuang was a onehour bus ride. It was during this jaunt that our luck really improved. We loaded onto an already packed bus and were ready to pull out of the station when a young lady signalled that she wanted to get on. I squeezed over to make some room smiled and gestured for her t http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Hunan/Fenghuang/blog-236032.html Yangshuo The YHA hostel was extremely comfortable and the staff very helpful we ended up staying 8 nights in the Senior Leader Hostel. On a couple of occasions one of the girls cooked us Yangshuo Fried Rice and a vegetable soupshe wanted to add it to the morning's breakfast and we were her ginny pigswe liked it and she added it to the menu.Yangshuo is a small town in the Guangxi Province surr http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Hunan/Fenghuang/blog-227583.html Dag allemaalDe treinverbinding KailiHuaihua tartte ons geduld en zoals we gevreesd hadden arriveerden we inderdaad te laat om nog een aansluitende bus naar Fenghuang ons volgende doel te nemen. 's Anderendaags 's morgens zijn we dan meteen vertrokken naar het busstation maar dat bleek geen garantie om vroeg in Fenghuang te geraken want de bus vertrok uiteindelijk pas tegen de middag. Het gaf http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Hunan/Fenghuang/blog-223683.html So I've been traveling through China for quite awhile and many exciting things have happened. However they decided to redo the blog website over the past 2 weeks making it almost impossible to access my account. Well the website is prettier now and I can finally finish updating you on what I was doing two weeks ago. I swear at some point I'll actually write about something that happened in th http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Hunan/Fenghuang/blog-221224.html Oh boy this is going to be a long one. We haven't placed an entry since leaving Beijing since then we've headed south west through China visiting TaiyuanPingyao Xi'an the Yangtze River Yichang to Chongqing Chengdu Lhasa Tibet WulingyuanFenghuang. OK since we can't write about everything we've experienced we'll give you the highlights of the things we loved most. Pingyao was a n http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Hunan/Fenghuang/blog-195573.html HuaihuaWe namen vanuit Zhenyuan de trein naar Huaihua 22Y voor een staanplaats 3 uur. Daar namen we de volgende dag een bus naar Fenghuang. Deze bussen vertrekken vanaf het Westelijk busstation Qiche xi zhan. Ongeveer 400m lopen van het treinstation kom je uit de treinuitgangen neem dan de 1ste straat rechts daarna de 3de straat links. De bussen rijden van ongeveer 7h30 's morgens tot onge http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Hunan/Fenghuang/blog-147597.html Vrijdag 2 maart. Vanochtend deden we het rustig aan we hadden immers tickets voor 12u20 voor onze rit naar Huaihua. Berna bleef na het ontbijt wat op de kamer werken aan de voorbereiding voor het volgende stuk van onze reis namelijk in Hangzhou. Ik ging nog wat van de verslagen van Ria en Pieter op de weblog plaatsen. Rond 10u namen we een taxi naar het station waar de rijen voor de trein http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Hunan/Fenghuang/blog-139445.html