China Travel Blogs - Page 5

Hat az uuugy volt, hogy delelott otcsillagos turista voltam; delben kicsekkoltam egyre novekvo sulyu es szamu csomagommal (negy nap alatt megharomszorozodott taskaim szama), majd konnyed mozgassal kimasztam a hostel ele taxit fogni. kb 15 meterre jutottam, amikor egy taxi nem fert el tolem az utcan…

Shanghai itself was a blur--we arrived with the tail end of a typhoon that was battering the southern provinces and soaked us out the first day and a half. After the packed schedule of ECHT I was expecting an equally grueling schedule in China however we were left plenty of time to ourselves... too…

My first trip to China to study mandarin for a year (the PLAN) and ended up only 6 months. However, China was a great strong country, a lot of friendly and aggressive people there although it sees hard for me to hang out with the locals. They even hardly speak English, I guess it's a good thing for me to practice the language. Anyway, it was one of a hell trip I have in my life, I could make friends with the expat at least. Helping a friend browsing the city with only 0,5% mandarin I cud speak.

  Fui com a Meltem comprar o meu novo dicionário electrónico. Ela tinha-me mostrado o dela 2 dias antes e eu decidira instantaneamente que seria um muito bom investimento. O dicionário tinha as opções em Inglês ou Chinês, e funcionava como dicionário dessas línguas e ainda de japo…

Guilin: top 10 resort landscape of China you have to visit

My love affair with the mountains continues with a recent trip to The Roof Of The World - Tibet. Our journey to Lhasa was a 29 1/2 hours train ride from Lanzhou on the Qinghai-Tibet (Qingzang) Railway. To get to Lanzhou was indeed a long journey, flying eastwards from Dubai to Shanghai, from Shangh…

Managed to get tickets to the athletics heats yesterday. (15 Aug) went with a couple of friends and colleagues :)

Me and my housemate joined a package tour to Beijing + Xi'an last Feb 18 to 21 to celebrate 2007 Lunar New Year in China. We arranged everything in Singapore for this trip. We knew that independent travel would be difficult for us since we can't speak and read chinese, and we don't have time to was…

19 days in tibet. Working in an orphange and enjoying the tibetan people and culture

    Yes, I got quarantined for 12 hours but for some of my travel companions the “imprisonment” lasted 7 days which was almost half of our precious vacation time. I guess we learned that it is probably better not to go to China during a Flu Pandemic.   Flu issues aside the tr…

Our  holiday in China has been and gone .... and it was definately an experience! We flew from Belfast to Heathrow to Frankfurt to be delayed meaning we missed our connection to Beijing - after a harrowing hour we were moved to a China Airways flight to Beijing - so we arrived only 2 hours af…

Yehah! New country- new adventures! We arrived in Beijing and were instantly thrown into the crowds and life that is China. Jen, Martin, Johnny and I made our on the Metro and managed to find the hostel- thanks Martin! And then hit the streets. Red Lanterns, street food stalls and people …

Knife and I checked in at an hostel that was situated high up un a hill. It was an old observatory. It was a cozy place, especial the restaurant wich was on the top floor with a very good view of the city. I think in summer this hostel would be better to stay in because at this time it was very col…

We left the Hongkong and its cool metro at Lok Ma Chau (yu should choose this one and not the most popular and most crowded Lo Wu station, when entering in Mainland China - unless yu r not staying in Shenzhen and want to go by train further north, then go over Lo Wu border crossing, where's the tra…

Drove 2 hours this morning before arriving in Wuzhen, a lovely old-world water canal town on the way back to Shanghai.  We wandered through the old streets and buildings, the town being like a living museum where people still live and work and produce the old products such as rice wine and dye…