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Thursday, 15 Nov 2007 | Views [3166] | Comments [5]
This rabbit above had escaped from a cage outside the restaurant next door, causing much fuss in the mini supermarket! Guilin After arriving and dropping my stuff at the hostel, I went back to the train station to arrange onward tickets, ... Read more >
Tags: Mountains
Tuesday, 6 Nov 2007 | Views [1550] | Comments [5]
After 12 hours in a constantly stopping, rickety old hard sleeper carriage from Emei to Panzhihua, I met Norwegian Marianne and Dutch Pieter an the start of an 8 hour bumpy bus journey across the mountainous Sichuan-Yunnan border. They were also heading ... Read more >
Tags: Mountains
Saturday, 27 Oct 2007 | Views [1980] | Comments [3]
Thanks for all the very kind comments, but you'll be glad to know that I'm leaving soon for a mammoth journey to Lijiang (which isn't even very far away), so this one's going to be mainly pictures. Along with the Giant Buddha in Leshan (one of ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
Monday, 22 Oct 2007 | Views [1155] | Comments [7]
Telling me
all about China before I
left, Rosie McC said that Xian (Xi'an -
pronounced like Sheean - just a wee city compared to Beijing
and Shanghai,
with only 7 million people!) was a great place, and she wasn't lying! After a few days ... Read more >
Tags: On the Rails
Tuesday, 16 Oct 2007 | Views [1199] | Comments [2]
Ni Hao! Arriving in Beijing, I was quite glad that - before leaving the UK - I'd used accumulated Airmiles to book a couple of nights in a hotel. It was well nice to indulge in some 'flashpacking' at the end of all the train journeys from Russia, ... Read more >
Tags: On the Rails
