The great blog of China – Rosa’s blog Since finally arriving in China, I can tell you, it is everything I had dreamed it would be. From seeing pictures and hearing stories about this country since I was young, China is just like I had hoped, but also (like most places we’ve been) it’s something […]
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Onward to Laos The journey from Guilin to Kunming passed in a relatively sedate seven and a half hours. When we arrived at the station Mrs Cheery said, ‘come on guys let’s walk a bit, stretch our legs and get a taxi in a bit!’- downtown Kunming turned out to be deserted… With a population
Care and Coercion, Kindness and Control – Theo’s blog I’m writing my last blog from China after leaving China, on a train from Kunming to Luang Prabang in Laos, because there’s things I wouldn’t write about being in China while being in China, just in case. It struck me after our first week here that
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Zài jiàn Guìlín We said goodbye to Guilin in the rain. It was a sweet farewell to the first place we have called home on our travels…we have lived in Guilin for three weeks and we needed to stop for a while… My rucksack is heavier (Mandarin textbooks!), my butt cheeks are tighter (although more
Click here The park is alive with the sound of music! Those who know me well know that I get up early in the mornings. I love to walk and experience the newness of each day. I think it’s the closest I get to living in the moment, that sense that every day is a
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Is it ever black and white? Life is different on a two day sleeper train in China. For a start our compartment companions were a well organised couple who had lots of excellent food in sensible containers and not much luggage. They didn’t speak English and we didn’t speak Mandarin (yet!) but we got on
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Five Cats Hotel (a tail from Kazakhstan) – Rosa’s blog Our first impressions of Almaty were definitely positive, but our good mood was very quickly dampened when we got to our hostel. It was not only cheap and uncomfortable looking, but unfriendly, and the man at the desk was asking us to pay triple what
The pointed finger Our beautiful big red bus arrived in Yining at 18.45 but we didn’t know if our train left at 20.21 or 22.21. All Chinese trains run on Beijing time and Yining and Urumqi, the city where we were headed, operate on local time (two hours earlier) so we were in a hurry
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The land of giants – Theo’s blog China exceeds my expectations – even my expectation about how much it would! As soon as we saw the swanky big red bus and the open-faced happily excited Chinese passengers waiting at Almaty bus station, I was confident we’d get over the border and reassured that we’d be
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The big red bus to China The big red bus journey to China was easily the best bus journey we have had. I wasn’t scared by the driving at any point, helped largely by the flat terrain but the bus was also big and demanded a certain amount of respect going around corners. None of
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