China: There and Back Again.
In and around Asia
Ryan and Claire- intrepid adventurers or foolish youths? This is an account of the travels, trials and tribulations of Claire and Ryan (formerly of Melbourne, Australia, curently of The Greater World As We Know It). You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll fall in love with Ryan and Claire. Or maybe just Ryan.
Route taken and entries by Real Traveler claire and ryan
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IN TRANSIT.
CLAIRE.
Ryan and I had a bet to see who would get sick first. I was overtly confident in my success, claiming that Ry had never been ov... Continue reading »
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King Hong Kong.
CLAIRE.
Things I have seen or done in Hong Kong.
Lantau Island.
A giant Buddha too tall to comprehend emerging through the smog.<... Continue reading »
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Lucky foreheads in Hong Kong
RYAN....
Hong Kong is a city of bright lights, lucky foreheads, big buddhas, temples, bamboo scaffolding holding up huge buildings,... Continue reading »
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Sleepers and Squats.
CLAIRE.
Caught the train from Hong Kong to Shenzhen on mainland China. Passing through the no man's land between shiny, happy Hong... Continue reading »
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Searching for China in Shenzhen
Ok, I agree with Claire when she says that Shenzhen is sterile and horrid. Shenzhen can in one way or another be likened to almost every big city o... Continue reading »
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Owen College.
CLAIRE.
Arrived at Yangshuo in the wee, dark hours of the morning. To cut a long story short we were met by someone who introduced himself as... Continue reading »
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Enter the Dao Xian.
CLAIRE.
We arrived at the school to a fanfare fit for the Queen: A big banner that said 'Welcome Ryan and Claire from Australia to teach us'... Continue reading »
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Intenational Women's day - A trip to Mt Zhouyi
RYAN...
For International Womens day our school decided that all the women will have the day off. I was invited to join their outdoor excursi... Continue reading »
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Exploring the Moon Cave (Yue Yan)
RYAN...
Today we piled into a bus and drove out into the countryside to visit Dao County’s famous Moon Cave (Yue Yan). The bus trundled along... Continue reading »
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Rainin' in Guilin.
CLAIRE.
Guilin is a shoppers Mecca and is the biggest city we've been to so far. It's a stunning mixture of heavenly mountains, ancient pagod... Continue reading »
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I Climbed the Mountain.
CLAIRE.
The bus trip from Gongcheng to Yangshuo is amazing. Mountains like dreams. We'e getting quite good at the ol' 'point'n'ticket jab' ro... Continue reading »
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The True Meaning of Easter.
CLAIRE.
We chose to celebrate the impending Easter Sunday by taking a ride on the Shaoshway(not correct spelling) River in a paddle boat shap... Continue reading »
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A journey to civilisation
RYAN…
Today after our Friday lessons we jumped on a bus to go see our Aussie friends in the nearby town of Yongzhou. Daoxian and Yongzhou are... Continue reading »
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The Chairman Mao Tribute Tour 2006.
CLAIRE.
Like all great ideas, it started with the death of an earlier one. What we thought would be a week-long holiday was reduced to five d... Continue reading »
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The Chairman Mao Tribute Tour 2006, DAY 2.
CLAIRE.
130 kilometres and one agonizingly painful train trip from Changsha lies Shaoshan (or 'little mountain' literally trans... Continue reading »
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One of the rides of our life.
RYAN...
Our friends Laura and James came to hickville for the weekend to see us. They came bearing information about a mystical, m... Continue reading »
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Where the Yao people play
On friday afternoon we went for a tip to Jianghua, a town pretty close to Daoxian. Again, the driving was conducted in the standard Chine... Continue reading »
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The Screaming Tourists
RYAN...
We took the excruciatingly slow train from Changsha to one of China's National Parks, Zhangjiajie. The train took around six hours wi... Continue reading »
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Where the Smog Meets the Sea.
CLAIRE.
Among the many names for Shanghai, my favourite must certainly be 'Whore of the Orient'. This was the sexy, smoggy, sultry Shanghai t... Continue reading »
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Looky Lady Looky.
About an hour from Shanghai lies the wonderful (though remarkably touristy) city of Zhouzhuang. One of a handful of 'water cities' in the area,... Continue reading » -
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Tonghua Or Not Tonghua.
CLAIRE.
Corn-enthusiasts only need visit Tonghua.
In a nutshell, we went to work, it turned out to be dodgy and we high-tailed out of t... Continue reading »
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Bored in Beijing
RYAN...
Beijing is boring.
We arrived on a sleeper bus from Tonghua (shudder) in the early drizzle and smog of an anonymus part of the... Continue reading »
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The Terracotta army
RYAN...
We arrived in Xi'an in the early morning straight off a 12 hour sleeper train from Beijing. Xi'an is nice...sort of the sa... Continue reading »
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It's a laid back city
RYAN...
Kunming is a laid back place. I like it and I would stay here for a longer time if we were not so hurried to get out of bloody expens... Continue reading »
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The beautiful mountain
RYAN...
Its enough to see most places in China in just one day. This is what we did in Lijiang. The Sleeper Bus from Kunming was much better... Continue reading »
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Waiting for Zhongdian.
CLAIRE.
We became far more intimate with Zhongdian than we ever intended. Travelling on a hunch that access to Tibet overland was now possibl... Continue reading »
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Deqin and Back Out Again.
If you are planning to hitchhike into Tibet from the monestry just out of Deqin, make sure you have sufficient funds as there is no bank that will acc... Continue reading »
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