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Published: October 27th 2008
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This travel blog recounts the adventures I had travelling four provinces in the North of China (Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Gansu, Shaanxi) with my good friend Bastien, who came to visit China and me earlier this year. Together we travelled for about 11 days and covered quite a distance. We took a lot of over night trains, in some places only stayed for a day, arriving early morning, setting off with the next night train the same day.
Now in 11 days, a lot of things happened and we had a extraordinary great time... far too much to write it all down, so here are our daily travel diary entries... they might not always make sense and might only be understood by the two of us, but heyho, you should have been there.
At this point, big thanks to Bastien for helping me transcribing his terrible handwriting. This travel blog is for you!
Hohhot: Taxi → Hohhot Airport
Bull Bar F1
Electric Bike
Hotpot (Pagodas)
Wuta
Muslim area
BBQ Street
Train HET-YIN
→ Passport
Yinchuan: Boat trip and beers / Cheap Hotel
Walking/ 13 floors „we are still here“
Talking - Chinese Schoolgirls
Beers Top of Mao
Stuck Toilets
The bike
There he comes... - Martine
Great Weather -Sunburns (Kerstin)
Funny Bar Hotpot
Drums/Towers
Tai-chi + Singing (Tri Yann)
Bayanhot: Bus Slow
Bumping (Bastard)
Toilets (Temple) - Fancy Lunch
Olympic Stadium -
Pagodas top of the hill / nap
Military zone
Outside Pool - Grumpy Kerstin
Market - cool taxis - Bronze Pagoda
Ripping off
KaFaChu → KFC - Taxi
Night: Snooker on TV
Sleeping - Sick Kerstin
WC still broken. Reception phones
Check-up late...
Noodles → Pharmacy
Seeking a bus → (17)
„Sit Down Kerstin!!!“
Taxi Rips Off
Western Xia Tombs → Relaxing and Hot
Electric Bus
Pagoda Beita
Lazy Kiki / Monks Singing
Music-playing Doorman
Bus 29 → Little Girls (A+ English)
Pharmacy → Pickpocket → Hotel
Swords/ Dinner (Ribs) WC (++)
Train Station/ Floor Football
Queue/ Foreigners
Sleeper - very hard/warm
Bad Night/Sweat
Lanzhou: Early → Tickets → Jiayuguan
Warehouse → Luggage
Breakfast → Dumpling soup
Coffee → Ages...
Walk to the Yellow River...
Blister → knife → Open... walk
Dancing (4 different) Ball/Tennis (Trad. Pair dance)
Disco/Tai chi
Speed boat ew ++++- beer gardens everywhere
Cash Machine. Cable cars
Shooting (too much → bitch)
Beer (long beach chairs) view (+++++)
Walk → Hamster ball (water)
Little Pagoda
XinHua Square in HuHeHaoTe
Flying a kite which requires special technique (shit) →
Geronimo (cable people)
Walk down Lunch (Noodle)
Bridge → Beer garden Beers
Strawberries ≠ Strawberries + Mango
Delicious → throw in the river
Rafting - fucking rip-offs
Lambs skin → funny floating
Taxi → Wrong Park
Walking up → Steep
Chairlift → singing
Traditional Bzh song
Beer dodgy (very) toilets
Temple → Kerstin shot me
Way down → stairs +++ steep
Kerstin + bushes = wee
Singing → trad. English songs (Beatles, Dylan, Supporters (genre))
Spread the good mood → everybody sings now!
Souvenirs massage + scratching tool (+touching)
Taxi → twat → big mess
Warehouse = luggage → fancy *** dinner
Poooooooo!
Station → train
Beer. Lamp. Snoring Twat
NOW!
We can’t sleep...
(over/ under table)
Hollywood: You know how it feels to be a fucking star!
TWATESS
JiaYuGuan: Train: come out too early
Taxi: twat
Fancy shower → different water supplies * radio + light
Bicycle: rip off
Room 2202
Wrong way: found the way: Fort → fucking huge rip off
Chinese soldiers on a day off visit
Beer on the wall
Fight in armours → warriors: killed each other
Museum (shit)/ (so-so)
Water fight
Souvenir (ashtray)
Nice „Greek“ restaurant (rice, lamb ribs)
Bicycle
Oh my god... just realized...
we had a beer on top of Mao!!!! again (wrong way)
Fucking difficult against wind
Great Wall → climb 371 steps → further then the end „one of the 300 hundreds things to see in life“
Go down.
Beer with a cat and two Chinese women
Cycle back → sandstorm
Chinese youngsters: biking (pulled Kerstin, Electric bike Bastien)
Park road crossing picture in front of the hotel
Bank
Pay for the rip off
Food, beer, back: listen to radio, watch TV, chill out on bed, get drunk, swear at each other often
TO BE CONTINUED
Shaolin fighting...
Morning:
Coffee, checkout, market
Restaurant... little bottles... train station (beer)
Train
Drinking (talking a lot)
„Fuck-off“ „fucking train“
Cup of noodles
Beautiful mountains
Sheep
Sleeping
Drinking later (maybe)
Xi’an 04.05.2008 18:55: What did we do?
We came out of the train
K. fuck off! (hotel bastard)
Go to hotel
Check in
English breakfast
Shower
Quest to find bus to take us to Terracotta army
Terracotta army → awesome, impressive but expected more anyway
Souvenir shopping
Hard bargaining
Ice-cream rip-off
Bus back
Sitting with locals
Hotel
Taxi twat → good driver though
German BBQ
Look for bar, no find, pub crawl, got drunk, K. head ache (fucking wincher)
Bed fight
English
13 floors...
and we are still there!!!! breakfast
Post card writing
Walk around
Temple
People invite us for food (rude Europeans)
Nap in the park
Tuk-tuk
Kind of silk market... extra bargaining (Bastien: lighter cheaper than K. 5<6)
Taxi to the hostel taxi to town
Bye bye Kerstin
McDo
Oh, yes this is how it went for poor Bastien after I left him... McDonald's... global, international cuisine, the same in every country... even the Chinese (at least) know what a hamburger is...
Bastien went off to Beijing, on (yet) another train, whilst I was flying back to Hohhot. On the way to Xi'an airport I was involved in my first Chinese accident... after a year and a half (it had to happen at some point)... luckily only the airport shuttle bus’s mirror was damaged... take off, home sweet home, HuHeHaoTe.
Sorry, für meine deutschen Leser... aber dieser Travelblog macht noch nicht einmal in Englisch Sinn;-)
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