Blogs from ChangSha, Hunan, China, Asia - page 3

The most important rule that I remind myself and others is that you do not bring your standards of food to other places. If you are not comfortable with sampling the variety of local cuisine, you're going to go hungry really fast. From March 22nd to the 29th, I was traveling around the Chinese province of Hunan with a tour group that were peoples of Chinese descent with citizenship in another country. It was part of a special tour group formed by the People's Republic of China to bring Chinese people back into China to tour around (and spend money) and to have a good time so we could go back and tell all of our friends what a fun time we had with the Government. In all honestly, it was really fun. One of the ... read more

Hi All, So the holidays finally came to an end. Visitors went home to the UK and Dany went back to Italy to see family and friends. We've decided to stay here in Shaoyang for another year so that we can visit Sichuan next summer. Changsha was the last stop on the 2 week whistle stop tour of Southern Hunan. We visited the Provincial Museum to see the Duchess mummy and the City museum to see where Mao lived when he was younger. We had hot-pot in the evening. Boy it was spicy!! I went with Dany to Shanghai. Coming back I had a 14 hour hard seat train ride. I wanted to kiss the platform when I got off the train. Anyhoo next time it'll be a blog from Shanghai Enjoy the photos and Jah ... read more

This past week was our holiday but the rest of the country started on Friday and has the next week off. On Thursday, we finished a four day stint in Hong Kong and flew from Shenzhen to visit my son, Philip, who just moved to Changsha a couple of weeks ago. Changsha is half the size of our "hometown" of Wuhan but the downtown area is much more concentrated. Much of the city center is contained in a few city blocks. This results in a mass of humanity on the streets, especially during a holiday weekend such as during our visit. We were literally pushed along with the crowd at times but after living in China for almost four years, it wasn't much of a step up from day-to-day walking around! The pedestrian streets we walked ... read more

Provincia de Hunan Zhang Jia Jie 湖南 张家界 Viaje con colegas de la Universidad de Jilin a Zhang Jia Jie Según los geólogos, las 3.000 colinas verdes de este territorio se formaron durante cientos de millones de años, debido a la erosión causada por el movimiento de las aguas. Hace 1.500 millones de años, los violentos movimientos terrestres que se produjeron en el área convirtieron la tierra en hoyos marinos y causaron erupciones volcánicas submarinas. La gran cantidad de cuarzo contenido en estos estallidos constituyó el material básico que formó después los bosques de colinas de piedra que se encuentran en Zhangjiajie. Hace 380 millones de años, gran parte del noroeste de Hunan permaneció sumergido bajo el mar. De tal modo, en el lecho marino de poca profundidad de Wulingyuan y Zhangjiajie se depositó una gran ... read more

(written a while ago) I've been meaning to write a Travelblog from Changsha for the past 4 months, but haven't gotten around to it. however, I've decided to finally pull my finger out and brighten up everyone's Xmas. As you may or may not know, I'm currently living in Changsha in Central China. Changsha is one of those 'small' Chinese cities, which contains over 6 million people. It is one of the four 'furnaces' of China which, whilst aptly describing the summer situation, doesn't accurately reflect the current temperature. It's not that it's that cold (think UK Winter), it's just that the Chinese Government decided that cities south of Shanghai don't need central heating. I would love to invite one of those Cadres to enjoy winter teaching at the school. 'Furnace' could also be used to ... read more