Day 22 We arrived in Fujian Province at around 6pm and went straight to our accommodation: a round house! They weren’t as I imagined. Kind of like the castles of china, these enormous circular buildings are 3-4 stories tall housing hundreds of people in tiny simplistic bedrooms around the edge. The centre of the circle Read More …
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China | Shanghai | Full Version
Of all the places I’ve been to in China so far, Shanghai is the city I could see myself living in. It’s like a less busy Hong Kong- cosmopolitan, fun, great night life and good public transport. We didn’t see as many cultural sites but explored the city and had time to unwind. Day 18.5 Read More …
China | Moganshan | Full Version
Moganshan is a picturesque bamboo nature reserve (I thought they’d have enough already), two hours north of Hangzhou. Our ‘hostel’, Howoolife Hostel, was like a four star hotel retreat with wooden furnishings and mud packed walls. I couldn’t venture too far from a toilet (not for the reason you’d immediately think) ( for our stay Read More …
China | Beijing | Full Version
Day 13 Freezing to death on the Great Wall, The Forbidden City and the Temple of Heaven. We met our tour guide, Luna in Beijing. Initially, she came across as a young shy guide with big glasses and a bob but we soon learnt that she’s a badass! She wrote her thesis on the Beijing Read More …
China | X’ian | Full Version
Day 10 We stayed within the city walls of X’ian, where no buildings are allowed to be taller than the wall. This has created a beautiful contrast in architecture from one side of the wall to the other. Somehow, we managed to take 2 hours to cycle the city wall’s perimeter (13.7km), probably because of Read More …
China | Chengdu | Full Version
Coined “The Capital of the West”, Chengdu is an awesome city with loads to offer. We were only there for three days and managed to fit in pandas, Jinli Pedestrian Street. I wish we could have stayed longer but, alas that’s part of the deal with using a tour. Day 5 Sleeper Train 08:30 start Read More …
China | Yangshou | Full Version
WARNING: THERE ARE SOME GORY IMAGES COMING UP! Day 2 Dog meat, cooking and snake blood shots. Eight of us went on the morning cooking course with “Cloud 9” beginning in the food market to get the ingredients. There were loads of interesting ‘foods’ like frogs, cats and dogs. They even hung the dead animals Read More …
China | Hong Kong
Central Hong Kong is exactly how you’d imagine- sky scrapers, lights and people everywhere. A real concrete jungle. I was, however, staying just outside a different city in Hong Kong called Sai Kung which is quaint with water-side restaurants with their live buffets swimming around in overcrowded, tiny tanks (although a sad sight, it was Read More …