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Hey guys!
Zo te zien hebben jullie het prima naar je zin daar! Wat een geweldige foto's allemaal! Vooral de verboden stad en de grote muur zien er erg inspirerend uit! Maak er wat moois van! Cheers uit een regenachtig moerasland, Pip

hoi
hoi globetrotters, Hier een bericht van jullienicht. Dieniet zo veel verstand van computers en internet heeft. Gelukkig kreeg ik via Hennie en Peter een mailtje hoe ik jullie kon volgen. Dat is dus gelukt maar een bericht achter laten is weer een heel ander verhaal. Waarschijnlijk krijgen jullie nog en berichtje van mij. Wat een leuke verhalen om te lezen ik krijg meteen zelf ook weer zinom de rugzak te gaan pakken. Helaas heeft Roy jullie verhaal ooj gelezen en levende schorpioenen op een stokje............liever niet. Ik las dat jullie misschien de Arnapurna gaan lopen. Als je de tijd hebt DOEN!!!!!!!! Ik heb de helft gedaan en het was gewleldig. Bij Poonhill moeten jullie de zonsopkomst gaan bekijken. Dat betekend heel vroeg op en dan een aardige klim naarboven. Maarik heb al gelezen dat jullie dat niet erg vinden. Helaas zullen meerdere mensen het doen maar echt het isde moeite waard, zeker als je kleursveranderingen ziet op The Fischtail. Ik blijf jullie volgen en geniet ervan veel liefs Roy en Paula Ps prachtige foto's

Wat klinkt het allemaal leuk!!! Kun je inmiddels een beetje met stokjes overweg, Steven? Kan me nog levendig herinneren dat je ze zonder enige gêne als mes en vork gebruikte... :) En moesten jullie ook een verzekering afsluiten om de Great Wall te betreden? Veel plezier nog, geniet en ontzettend leuk dat jullie ons op de hoogte houden. Groetjes, Anna

eindelijk
HI lieve allebei, Eindelijk een levensteken van mij,ik heb nog niet eerder tijd gehad,ivm Praag,oma en de kleinkids die momenteel bij ons logeren. Wat hebben jullie het weer gaaf!!!en die foto,s,ik ben zo jaloers....vooral die bij de Chinese mUuR!!wAT IS mIEKJE ToCH fotogeniek!!!! Wij hebben het geweldig in praag gehad,prachtige stad! Vandaag zijn we aan het vissenfeest voor as zaterdag begonnen,de staarten zijn klaar en de vissen die opgevist moeten worden (er zit een nr voor een prijsje in verstopt)Het is deze week subtropisch weer,gisteravond met vrienden buiten gegeten en geklaverjast en nu maar hopen dat het zaterdag niet regent!!! Wij genieten van jullie gezellige,geestige berichten!!!!XXXXXm_j

Het klinkt allemaal weer jaloersmakend leuk! Veel plezier op de berg..en anders gewoon maar dicht tegen elkaar aan kruipen..

hiii
Lieve 2, wij zijn weer terug!! En hebben het geweldig gehad. Fijn om jullie avonturen te kunnen lezen om toch een beetje in de stemming te blijven;-). Mooie foto trouwens hier rechts! Leuk om jullie verhalen te lezen, ik herken heel veel van mijn eigen China reis. Geniet van jullie reis, van elkaar en van het heerlijke eten! KUS E&G

Hi Guys
So you are in China seeing the Machu Pichu in another country, It is another amazing human feat but one which can be seen from space it makes such an impact on the landscape, similarly to South America the Chinese revere their environment but trash it not seeing the future lies in our hands, but there are some very very very rich people in China with the biggest growing economy ever and some people who work very very hard to make a life for their family. Say hello to those people for me China is and has been a very hard road for the people to live within the regime who own everything and dictates to the lives of its people even where they can live. Thanks for the photos I hope that you are well and happy and have a beautiful journey throughout. Keep in touch Love Kate and Gave

客家话
湘南土话 粤语: 18 十時，適十獅適市。!!!

Goed begin!
Heee lieverds! Wat een lekker lang verhaal al om mee te beginnen zo na jullie eerste week. Het klinkt al erg goed, ik zou zeggen; hou dit vast en ga vooral zo door ;-) Enjoy!! Xx

Footie
Gaaf hoor, veel gedaan al! En mooi dat de footie ook weer gezien is, die ga je de komende maanden veel tegenkomen...misschien dat project toch nog eens oppakken! Cu in oktober!

Bon Voyage!
Can't believe you're on the road again and I'm still cooped up in New York! Anyway, I can see I'm going to make a lot of use of online translation services while you're on your trip... For the English speakers following this travel blog, here's how Google Translate translates this entry: Fire, fire! The night before we leave, the hot air balloon happiness that I of my former colleagues have been embarrassed. Very nice but a bit stupid because there was too much wind. But our happiness is not blowing balloon on the new thatched roof of the neighbors but in a high tree where the flame slowly burns out ... happy Our Lufthansa flight goes according to plan and Friday July 13th we are at the beautiful, modern and especially gigantic Beijing airport. And huge is the keywoord of this city, whether for metro distances, palaces, temples, squares, crowds or walls go! We sleep in a charming hostel full of plants in a hutong in the center. A hutong is an attractive neighborhood with all streets and houses that unfortunately ground rapidly be replaced by residential towers. The first day in Beijing consists of overtaking and sleep walking through the hutong, along a lake teeming with the Chinese on the side, with huge kites, on the pedal or just a job to swimming. It's hot over 30 degrees, but the smog is so bad. We take all the rules in a stone jar of yogurt in the full sun - we do after the Chinese, who are fond of. Due to a square with the drum and bell tower opposite. Children are at the badminton, at dusk, they are replaced by a matrix of Chinese dancing stamp on music. At the more we choose a hotpot restaurant full of Chinese, everyone here takes a kind of fondue: In a metal boiler and you order a vegetable broth, mushrooms, tofu and meat on to cook, then baptize them in a kind of tamarind , garlic and red pepper sauce - very tasty, like the Chinese Tsintao beer! You feel very safe around here, so we walk to the end of the evening through the hutongs back to our hostel. Saturday we rented bikes at the hostel which is quite an adventure. The intersections are enormous and the largest vehicle takes precedence. First stop breakfast our trek we ignore the time being in eetstraatje with live scorpions on a stick, silk worms, cockroaches, big spiders, centipedes, turtles and small sharks - soon on to the huge and impressive Temple of Heaven park full of ancient conifers and range temples. Chinese have holidays, so we run into hordes of people who have fun with ice cream, badminton (@ Oscar: and the ever-popular footie!), Karaoke singing on the street. And pictures but they can not (at least not with our camera). Next stop is the square of heavenly peace where we park our bikes. However, special to stand there amidst the Russian communist architecture and the entrance to the Forbidden City with Mao's portrait. We should be! We feel we walk a few miles straight through still another temple throne followed by a square. When we come into the living area is a bit playful with a park and pagodas. The hundreds of buildings let on either side of us. The exit is on the back and there is also a hill with a park and a temple on it. The hill was created from the excavated soil from the forbidden city and the temple gives great views across Beijing. To come back to our bikes we take two Rickshaws converted for one euro. They take a strange path through the hutongs and they stop at the corner of the square. They meant "natural" 10 euro ... yeah it kicks in and we do not walk to the square - which ultimately takes another half hour - bunch sewer! Bouke, the friend of her sister Marloes Miek, every six weeks in Beijing for work. We will cozy Peking Duck dinner with him! In a very trendy restaurant we choose the special - and I may Bouke the kitchen to choose our own duck (or all sex and spit eh ..)! The duck is carved at the table and the crispy skin baptize you in sugar, it gives me is most reminiscent of a donut. The meat is done with a vegetable sauce and pancakes - very tasty! Lichees with nitrogen as steaming toetje.Bouke takes us to the top expat spots, close to his work, hotel and the famous tower by Rem Koolhaas, we see the skyline from the 63rd floor. On the sixth is a trendy club in a rebuilt temple on a huge terrace with a cool interior, fresh cigars at a table to be rotated and Western prices here .. On a sweet card from Marloes says they tracteert us a drink and we take all three mojitos - thank you lobby! Bouke has more surprises and we will go to The Place, an underground club where you feel after the first entrance through a laser maze need jobs and then come in a spectacular light show. On stage in the middle east European ladies to dance, but unfortunately we Fedde le Grand as one week after missing! After a great evening at half past three we lie exhausted in bed. Sunday we start a little later and we go to Bouke art district 798. The buildings of a former electronics factory have been transformed into galleries and street art - very cool! Our brunch is a bargain and superlekker banana and chopped egg sandwich in the street and an expensive iced coffee in one of the many gift stalls in the art district. Here you will find everything from aliens, robots and terracotta warriors to pill balconies of agents through which you must wrestle, pictures of miners, farmers in Lilliputian perspective, bound women's feet and much more ... We have a drink in bar street, go through to the night market and choose between all fried insects for a lot of snacks that are actually quite disappointing and therefore take the Mac as an ice cream dessert ... Monday we take a small tour bus to the Great Wall! Not one of the tourist, massive and almost park-like pieces, but the rugged stretch between Jinshanling and Simatai. And we are really the only twenty on the wall that quickly blow apart. We run a piece of 22 towers in three hours - idiot because the heat of the day with about 35 degrees. Fortunately, sales people from the villages with iced water bottles that we add overheated iced tea from our backpack. The wall is sometimes restored, sometimes in the original condition - really impressive! In the area you see nothing but green hills and some parts are very steep. Up to the highest peak you can see the wall lying on the ridges and to think that some 10,000 kilometers of built! Susanne a woman from Switzerland tells us of her months in Nepal and has convinced us to the Annapurna trek of two weeks to do (@ Dimitry: is not that cool to do together?). We will meet in the evening with her to eat so we can write her tips. She and a Japanese of our bus went along to the Chinese family restaurant Bouke us after work and take it. The ugly building stands alone among the gleaming skyscrapers of the business district, but the dining room is very cozy and what we have many unwise and good food! It's a very tasty and slightly spicier version of Chinese cuisine which resembled what we can pick in NL. Mmmhh Bouke thanks! That night we sleep (I read okay, Miek barely) in the dormitory because all doubles are occupied. We are late, grab the bags, breakfast omelet and yogurt in the hostel. We take the subway and taxi to the Summer Palace, a huge collection of graceful bridges, temples and palaces on a hill on a large by 100,000 workers dug more on the outskirts of the city. We see a fraction of the total and hurry to get the night train to Shanghai. Much too late - because only ten minutes before departure, we are panting and sweating in our wagon with two bunk beds. The Chinese enjoyed cabin where we can exchange a word with us to help the bags under the sofa stuffing. In the dining car, we take two not very tasty and recognizable microwave meals. We chose a train for 12 hours about the approximately 1700 km does, it can also present in more than four hours, but we find the sleeper train it fun - and gives me time to write this piece! Until now, China is large, modern and impressive. Next piece in a week from the train to Xian? Annemiek and Steven