Blogs from Xi'an, Shaanxi, China, Asia - page 91

Estoy enferma, tengo un pequenyo resfriado y no creo que la gente del vagon del tren este muy contenta conmigo, no he parado de estornudar en toda la noche. Por fin hemos llegado a Xi'an, al bajar del tren habia una mujer insistiendo en que fueramos a su hotel, le hemos dicho que ibamos a mirar el hostal de la juventud pero eso no le ha parado, nos ha ofrecido un precio razonable y cuando hemos visto la habitacion nos hemos quedado, el Hotel Ludao esta cerca de la estacion lo que es muy conveniente, y por lo que he visto, casi que todo el mundo que ha llegado despues que nosotros, esta pagando bastante mas dinero por el mismo tipo de habitacion. Xi'an, no me siento muy bien, pero hemos ido a explorar, la ciudad ... read more

Our last few days in beijing were minus touristy, they mainly involved us getting drunk, singing, getting drunk, breaking tables, more singing, and getting drunk. The day after our great wall trek we sat around alot and eventually got ourselves together and went to tianamin square. saw a few of the sights then came back to the hostel and invited a few swedish girls out with us that night. In the end up most of the hostel came out with us cos they'd heard dermy was taking us to a chinese rock and roll place with live music as recommended by his chinese friend. so there was about 20 of us, irish, swedish, english, israeli, danish and german all expectin some real chinese culture but when we got there it was just some bar full of ... read more

Well cyber hitch hickers we are safe and sound and back on the air at least for the moment.I am sitting in a hotel at the Xi'an airport.Our 4:30 flight has been delayed till 7:30 so they have given us a room and hence internet access. Interesting feature in the room the usual toiletries are here including comb and slippers but this one featres mens briefs and socks as well.Not sure of the cultural significance to that but can imagine a number of things from very acccomodating for travellers diahorrea to some afternoon delight with a concubine.Anyway I am not sick and married so won't need a change.Not likely to fit anyway. We left BOb'and Nadias yesterday and as we drove to the train station marvelled at the red sun shini9ng through the polution in Beijing.The ... read more

Hello all. Just time for a quick posting here before my hour of internet runs out. First, thanks so much for all the comments. I am more or less freely 'posting' them on the site, so if you just have a persona message for one of us that you don't want posted (something like, I miss you so much schoooky wookums or some kind of memory of fraternity hazing, just note this in your comment and I won't post). On the subject of comments, one of these days I hope to be able to go through these and respond. To those folk interested in Club Masa, in Fji, go at your own risk and look out for the short indian ex con. Will keep you up to date on other good stuff that we find along ... read more

Thursday, September 8, 2005 Weather: Clear Temperature: Warm in Chengdu, cooler in Lhasa. We are about to arrive in the mysterious land of Tibet, clearly the most adventurous portion of our trip. Our flight was on China Air that left on schedule at 10 a.m. for the 90 minute trip. This time we were on a Boeing 757 and our group was seated in the very back of the plane. Every seat was filled and the overhead bins were crammed with every imaginable form of luggage. The Lhasa airport is quite new and modern but it is located about one hour bus ride from the city. The area is mountainous and it is necessary to have a long runway for takeoffs at such a high altitude so locating the airport in a large flat area was ... read more