I have now been in Chengdu for 5 days. Too long but what to do when you have a booked flight.. my planing have been little screwed dued that i didnt stay so long in songpan.
But it have been nice, i have spent some days with just relaxing. Visiting the giant buddha and giant panda.
Also meet some swedes, a couple that where really nice. Had a nostalgic trip to IKEA, nice!
Songpan And Chengdu
lördag 30 januari 2010
onsdag 27 januari 2010
After a long (15h) journy i arrived to Xining. Xining is a typical chinese city, BUT with alot of tibetans and muslims. It actual kind of cool. I just spend a day there leaving in the afternoon to go to Guoluo, wich is a tibetan city.
Xining and Road from Dunhuang
Arriving in Guoluo and didnt know when the next buss to Jiuzhaigou, i jump on a bus taking me to ahba. There it supposly should depart a bus, it didnt....
Ahba and Guoluo
So i had to go to other city, Hongyuan.. All small citys with mostly tibetans. nice to travel around and really nice people.
Ahba to Hongyuan to Jiuzhaixie
Arriving and just waiting.. no bus... mayby to other place there it can be one.. no bus arriving.. and then suddently i bus to Jiuzhaigou :)
Jiuzhaigou
But well in Jiuzhaigou i had some really nice photos! Not photoshoped, i promise!
Xining and Road from Dunhuang
Arriving in Guoluo and didnt know when the next buss to Jiuzhaigou, i jump on a bus taking me to ahba. There it supposly should depart a bus, it didnt....
Ahba and Guoluo
So i had to go to other city, Hongyuan.. All small citys with mostly tibetans. nice to travel around and really nice people.
Ahba to Hongyuan to Jiuzhaixie
Arriving and just waiting.. no bus... mayby to other place there it can be one.. no bus arriving.. and then suddently i bus to Jiuzhaigou :)
Jiuzhaigou
But well in Jiuzhaigou i had some really nice photos! Not photoshoped, i promise!
tisdag 19 januari 2010
Jiayuguan and Dunhuang
Okay, now i have been to Jiayuguan and Dunhuang, very intresting places that lies very close to the Gobi Desert. Jiayuguan is famous because they have the start of the Great Wall. When I arrived to Jiayuguan was it a nice taxidriver that told me all the things that I could do there. He said that he could drive me around for 50 kui to all the places that he thought was interesting. It started well, but after I had been to two places I started to be suspicious. Because it was quite far between all places and usual taking a taxi for a half day is not so cheap, but I also thought that it doesn’t matter, If he say one price I will pay it. When I came to pay he wanted 150 kui, and he hadn’t been so nice in the end. Because he just went from attraction to attraction and didn’t gave me so much time that I wanted/needed. He claimed that he had said that every attraction costed 50 kui (three attraction), altought I know he didn’t say it. He also said that he showed me the prices (stupid as! I said that I could speak a little and he think I can read a brochure. The reading is the hard thing in chinese). Well I told him that we had a problem, because I cant pay so much, but I was willing to give him 80 kui. Witch was 30 kui more than I expected, NO! I want at least 120 kui he said . Sitting in the taxi for ten minutes I said that I can give him 100, because its in the middle (although I still thought it was his mistake) and that I would not give him one kui more. He didn’t agree, so I just went leaving 100 kui and having him shouting “FUCK YOU”. Shit, a man in his 40´s screaming that, something wrong… Although I first wanted to go and tell him that if it was another day I would have beating him up I was satisfied by cursing back to him, in chinese of course : ). But still I have some great photos and it was a quite good day. And somehow I can blame myself, I know that I shouldn’t trust the taxidrivers standing at air/train station, and I still did it. Actual the taxi drivers in china are the worst kind of people.
Jiayuguan Day 1
I decide that from now never use taxi (and if I will never be nice to the drivers if they start to mess with me) if it’s not totally necessary. Day number two I didn’t had so much plans, just buy a train ticket to Dunhuang. I meet a girl at the hotel that wanted to take me to her hometown because they had some sighseen places. Okay I said, and it was the best thing I have done. I can bet that not many foreigners have been there and I also found some grottos that were really old. Really great! I also meet some Chinese guys that I lifted home with, and we ended up eating and drinking some beer. Really nice guys!, and I needed that after the horrible taxi driver.
Jiayuguan Day 2
After been a little hangover and spending a day doing nothing I was off to Dunhuang.
And it was a interesting trip. Because it was only a 6 hour journey I decided to take a cheaper ticket and sitting all the way. On the train was a great mix of different people. But the most exceptional where a bunch of Xinjiang people, there really wasn’t similar to (han)Chinese. One guy was talking nonstop for about 3 hours, sitting on a table and making jokes all over again. Probobly really amusing if it wasn’t 04.00 when he started and the fact that I could only understand one or two words.. (they have a very different language compared to Chinese (Putonghua). But my neighbor managed to fall a sleep. He was lying on my shoulder and snorvlingme and my “friend”, and in the background I had some music (not so good one, Arabic, Xinjiang or other place where they don’t have good music). After about half of the trip a policeman came and asked for passports (me and the Xinjiang people), but I explained to him it was to much trouble to take it from my bag and asked if my student ID was okay, it was : ). This is probably the oddest journey I have done and really an experience.
After arriving to Dunhuang I went for a afternoon sightseen trip. Visiting the GOBI DESERT!!!! Great, walking on endless sand dunes (okay they are ending, but my point is that they are big) and riding a camel. Nice!!
Dunhaung Day 1
Today I went to the famous Gogao grottos. Payed and looked at three big buddhas, amazing big, but no photos allowed so I can´t give you any proof that they where big. 28 meters I think they said they where. One was sleeping two where awake. Not very intresting but okay.
I also tried to go to Qinghai province, but I am only allowed go to Golmud and Xining. I will check this up better when I come to Xining(I heard that I can buy a permit that allows me to travel to other places, but I will see.). The most importing thing is take me to Jiuzhaigou(nature reserv).
Dunhuang Day 2
Jiayuguan Day 1
I decide that from now never use taxi (and if I will never be nice to the drivers if they start to mess with me) if it’s not totally necessary. Day number two I didn’t had so much plans, just buy a train ticket to Dunhuang. I meet a girl at the hotel that wanted to take me to her hometown because they had some sighseen places. Okay I said, and it was the best thing I have done. I can bet that not many foreigners have been there and I also found some grottos that were really old. Really great! I also meet some Chinese guys that I lifted home with, and we ended up eating and drinking some beer. Really nice guys!, and I needed that after the horrible taxi driver.
Jiayuguan Day 2
After been a little hangover and spending a day doing nothing I was off to Dunhuang.
And it was a interesting trip. Because it was only a 6 hour journey I decided to take a cheaper ticket and sitting all the way. On the train was a great mix of different people. But the most exceptional where a bunch of Xinjiang people, there really wasn’t similar to (han)Chinese. One guy was talking nonstop for about 3 hours, sitting on a table and making jokes all over again. Probobly really amusing if it wasn’t 04.00 when he started and the fact that I could only understand one or two words.. (they have a very different language compared to Chinese (Putonghua). But my neighbor managed to fall a sleep. He was lying on my shoulder and snorvlingme and my “friend”, and in the background I had some music (not so good one, Arabic, Xinjiang or other place where they don’t have good music). After about half of the trip a policeman came and asked for passports (me and the Xinjiang people), but I explained to him it was to much trouble to take it from my bag and asked if my student ID was okay, it was : ). This is probably the oddest journey I have done and really an experience.
After arriving to Dunhuang I went for a afternoon sightseen trip. Visiting the GOBI DESERT!!!! Great, walking on endless sand dunes (okay they are ending, but my point is that they are big) and riding a camel. Nice!!
Dunhaung Day 1
Today I went to the famous Gogao grottos. Payed and looked at three big buddhas, amazing big, but no photos allowed so I can´t give you any proof that they where big. 28 meters I think they said they where. One was sleeping two where awake. Not very intresting but okay.
I also tried to go to Qinghai province, but I am only allowed go to Golmud and Xining. I will check this up better when I come to Xining(I heard that I can buy a permit that allows me to travel to other places, but I will see.). The most importing thing is take me to Jiuzhaigou(nature reserv).
Dunhuang Day 2
fredag 8 januari 2010
Ma la song, 41 195m
I did it! 41 195 meter running!
Long time without writing and to tired to write so much today.
10 655 where running full marathon, over 50 000 people where in total running in all the different distance. 7 811 people finished the full marathon, i came on 810 place. Time 3 houre 48 min 32 sec, and I can tell that the last 9 km where really long!! So much pain, but it was worth it. I already promised to never do it again, but...
Long time without writing and to tired to write so much today.
10 655 where running full marathon, over 50 000 people where in total running in all the different distance. 7 811 people finished the full marathon, i came on 810 place. Time 3 houre 48 min 32 sec, and I can tell that the last 9 km where really long!! So much pain, but it was worth it. I already promised to never do it again, but...
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