Having a visitor means you need activities. The good thing is you go to places you normally would not. Last night we went to the Shanghai Centre Theatre to see their acrobat show. There we were, sitting next to all kind of tour groups. Nontheless, it was definitely worth it. It’s a great 1.5 […]
Yangshuo is known for it’s famous (so they say themselves) beer fish. We tried it, it’s ok but what really can make you go home with a story is Yangshuo snakes. Ordering snake means you have to give the restaurant some time so the poacher can go out and fetch one. That was […]
I mentioned before that most of the waitresses in the bars have pretty good English. It makes Yangshuo a weird enclave with bars, restaurants, hotels and lots of schools to learn English. They all seem to be in need of teachers so if you want to relax and make some travel money this might […]
Yangshuo for backpackers consists of one main street and some alleys leading up there. It’s called West Street and is a true Walhalla for travelers, which have been traveling the dirt roads of China. Compared to Dali it’s more crowded, compared to Lijiang it’s fairly quiet. It is the low season though now so […]
We have been blessed with some very fine and sunny weather the last two days. A nice change from the endless rain, drizzle etc. We came here to relax a bit but even relaxing has its limits. Sitting in one of the ample available bars we decided to make use of our time […]
Having a very good friend over means one has to go out of Shanghai and travel a bit. No choice but that is a good thing. Last weekend we went to the Xiang Yang Market to get the appropriate travel gear. Travel pants and travel shirts. Monday we flew in to Guilin, skipped the […]
The Chinese blogosphere has been tortured lately with some heated debates about China bashing, Japan bashing, foreigner bashing and whatever lays ready to bash. It all started so innocent.
A remark by the author of the Horse’s Mouth about the poor usage of the English language in the People’s Daily upset the […]
