China Travel Blogs - Page 4

I couldn't help feeling I should have done more with this Shanghai bit of the trip. There are places an hour's journey away, which would be worth seeing, but as I said before, I'm flagging. I did get up reasonably early though, and set off to the Bund again, to find out about boat trips. It's…

We flied from Lijiang to Kunming for transfer to HK. We only had few hours so we just walked around the city and went to the Kunming zoo. The zoo was pretty old and the cages for the animals were dirty, some animals were missing too. I think it is not worth to go (the entrance fee is quite expensi…

Lonely Planet says there's only one weekly bus from Vladivostok to China. Knowing that you can't believe everything LP writes I went to the bus station in Vladivostok a day before and I was told a bus leaves for Harbin every day except for Sundays. Cool I said to myself and bought the ticket f…

In der Nacht sind leider noch einige Leute ins Hostel gekommen und haben recht unangenehm laut die Nachtruhe der bereits schlafenden gestört. Bin überflüssigerweise früh aufgestanden, denn der Zug nach Peking hatte knapp eine Stunde Verspätung. Hab mich zum Bahnhof bringen lassen. Der Zug schl…

Shitak Beer has the most honest name. The first four letters describe the taste and the last two letters describe the sound people make when they drink it.  The strange thing about China is that they have this wicked vodka like liquor which is called baijiu, which is like 160 proof.  I us…

Being a coastal city, Xiamen is not as famous or as modern as Shanghai, but it has something unique and intriguing. Walking on the street, you can see all buildings and streets, even in the very downtown area, are small and delicate. It reveals the hospitality and nature-loving …

Shanghai was incredible!  Despite the fact that they're technically in the same country as Hong Kong, Shanghai was a completly different place.  We spent the day with our friends Tim and Susie.  Our first stop was the Bund.  A short cab ride took us to the major riverwalk area o…

So lindsey and I went on a mini-excursion during the清明節long weekend, when everyone else went to xi'an. we wanted to go to the Beijing Art Museum, but we got off two wrong stops, yes, twice. Twice the ticket people let us back in. It was funny. And of course, when lindsey was talking, everyone…

Be warned. This entry is not so much a "blog" as it is a diatribe. A rant. I am cranky. I am growing quite tired of Beijing. And it is so crowded here! Over 36 billion people live in Beijing! Okay... it's only 20 million. But that's still a hell of a lot of people! To try to cross a street is…

This is the second time I've attempted to write this blog; the first time I got Chinese symbols replacing Roman ones before the computer annoyingly crashed altogether as I was doing the finishing touches. (Needless to say the original was much more informative and entertaining.) In fact, it's a goo…

We had 8 days in Tibet. Due to the high altitude, we need first 2 days to acclimatized, therefore, no activities for the first 2 days. We visited Lhasa ( 12001ft/3658m), Tsedang (11483ft/3500m), Gyanste (13255ft/4040m) and Shigatse (12585ft/3836m). The Tibetans are very religious and friendly. You …

The tour for the day wasn't included with what we have already paid on our tour package but it felt like we had no choice but to just go on and pay the additional tour. For what we paid we had our own service van and driver plus our tour guide and it wasn't really expensive so really no compla…

"Would you like your dog with rice or noodles Sir?" Nanning is not a touristy place but is famous for its dog dishes - that it dishes made of dog, so eating here was always going to be interesting. In fact we managed to avoid dog and managed a good meal of beef, pork and some form of Asian veg; our…

Without getting much sleep, as people were watching DVDs in our hostel room all night. I crashed as soon as I got on the coach for the tour. My sleep was only interrupted by the pre-arranged stops on the way to the wall. The first such stop was the Jade Museum. I don't know why there is a stop arra…

Country of contrast! :) i've been in nine cities in China and would love to visit some others:)