Blogs from Guiyang, Guizhou, China, Asia

Hi All, Just a quick stop over in the big city before moving on to do some village hopping around KaiLi. Must admit we have been having quite a bit of trouble on our travels so far this summer in finding hotels that will accept foreign guests. We have had to resort to CTrip on a couple of occasions already. So finaly found a hotel, Austin Boutique Hotel, near the massive QianLing park, which was a bonus as it was the only place we really wanted to visit. It's a great area to stay with the park, a local market and lots of cheap small restaurants nearby. So an afternoon in the park walking up QianLing Shan to visit HongFu Temple. Along the way we came across the wild monkeys who live on the mountain there. ... read more

Before leaving Guiyang, I must still visit there the Hongfu temple, near the summit of Quianling Shan mountain (1300m), and also the Renmin square with the tall Mao statue. Anshun is just a two hours bus ride distant, so that might be managed all in one day. checkout at the hotel. motorbike ride from the hotel to the Quianling Park,15Yuan. park visit and climb to the Hongfu temple. walk througj the town centre, from North to South. visit to the lovely Jue Yuan temple and the Renmin square. walk to the hotel to retrieve my backpack. motorbike ride from the hotel to the bus station near to Guiyang's train station, 15Yuan. 14:30 coach towards Anshun, 1h30, 35Yuan. city bus 4 to Anshun's train station, and check-in at the hotel. Cash problems. This afternoon, neither Visa, neither ... read more

Leaving Xijiang. village shuttlebus to the toll gate, 5Yuan. bus from Xijiang to Kaili, 9:30-10:45, 15.50Yuan. bus from Kaili to Guiyang, 11:00-13.50, 50Yuan. from Bus station to the Hotel, 40Yuan for a 20 minutes ride (as nobody could explain me how to get in the city). An incredible surprise at Kali's bus station ! See the first picture. !---! Novotel Guiyang Downtown, Guiyang, 413.10Yuan.... read more

This is the first blog for our 25 day holiday in China from 28 April to 23 May 2015. Our travel program was too busy and wifi service was too slow for me to load the blog, hence publishing this first blog on our return. Guiyang The Miao and Dong Province in Southern China 28 April – 30 April 2015 We were dropped off at the Brisbane Airport by Adam at about 7.30am and were excited to be going to main-land China for the first time. We have only been to Taiwan and Hong Kong, and both were in the 1970s. We flew with China Southern Airlines and flew via Guangzhou to Guiyang which took about 10 ½ hours and our guide Jacky was waiting for us at the airport. After booking into the Trade Point ... read more

Today is the first day of the second week of the training program. We have a wonderful group of teachers this year who have been quite patient given the circumstances. Our materials did not arrive until thursday last week so we have been trying to piece together a program of study for this these teachers with some chapters from a teacher training workbook and some lessons and materials downloaded from the Internet. It was not exactly easy putting all this together but since the materials have arrived it's been easier to draw from some of the exercises to present new ideas for activiites. Unfortunately the program is only 2 weeks long this year instead of 4 so we will not be able to achieve all that we were able to do in the past 2 summers. ... read more