China - Yangshuo (11.10.2013)

I arrived in Yangshuo (northeast of Guangxi) on Sunday 6th of October in the evening after more than 26 hours of local/public transport (train, bus and motorcycle).
I met my roommates. A Danish couple (Lisbeth & Erik) and a girl from Boston in US (Leah).

Monday
We rent bicycles to go from our hostel to downtown to join a girl from Switzerland who they met few days before.
We took the bamboo rafting to go down the Li river for about 1 hour and we stopped in a small village.
The bamboo rafting driver was really lovely. He put some Music on.
We had a quick lunch and we went to the Gold Water Caves to admire the crazy imagination of Chinese people and to have a mud and hot water bath.
After that, we came back to Yangshuo to have few beers on the rooftop of the swiss girl's hostel and cheap diner in downtown.

Tuesday
We rent scooter to have a look to the countryside around Yangshuo.
We went to a tea plantation and they showed us the tea ceremony.
After that, we went to a place where we could jump into the river from a bridge.
Finally, we came back to Yangshuo to see the Impression Liu Sanjie show.

Wednesday
It was the lazy day.
Just have a talk and share our videos.
In the evening, we went to downtown to eat something and few drinks.

Thursday
The night and the day after was so bad.
We were not feeling good.
We probably got food poisoning when we ate in town last evening.
At the end of the afternoon, I went to Guilin by bus.
On saturday evening, I'm going to take my last night train in China to go to Shenzhen in order to cross the border to go to Hong Kong.

China - Chengdu (03.10.2013)

I arrived yesterday in Chengdu.
In the train, I met a chinese girl who was speaking in english.
All the people sitting next to me asked her to translate their questions.
The topics of the questions were about salary, pension, French romanticism, ... .
I answered to the questions for 4 hours.
They also offered me food.

I also met a chinese boy who is music teacher.
He helped me to buy my train ticket to go to Guilin.
He also took me up to my accommodation with his girlfriend's car.
Fortunately, otherwise I would never found it by myself.

My accommodation is located in a building on the 30th floor.
The top view is quite nice.
People who work there are very nice.
They invited me several times to eat with them for free.

Today, I went to the Research Base Of Giant Panda Breeding.
I met 2 chinese boys in the bus to go there.
We visited the Research Base Of Giant Panda Breeding together and we went to the city center to eat something.
They also offered me the lunch.

French people should take example to welcome foreigners in their country.

China - Xi'an (01.10.2013)

I arrived in Xi'an saturday morning after 11 hours sitting in the train.
The train was completely full and 1 hour late.
I took the opportunity to buy my train ticket to go to Chengdu.
I couldn't get ticket that I wanted because there was only standing tickets available.
16 hours standing is not so cool.
I got a hard seat ticket for Tuesday 1st October in the afternoon (Xi-an 13h05 => Chengdu 04h56).

This time I found my youth hostel easily.
I just asked to two Italian guys in the street.
My youth hostel is very nice and clean.

Saturday, I walked in Xi'an's streets (Bell tower, Drum tower and Muslim quarter).

I met a Spanish guy and sunday we went to see the Terracotta Warriors and Horses.
Sunday evening, I went to eat Xi'an's Noodle with 3 people who are in the same dorm than me (1 Brazilian boy, 1 Finnish boy and 1 Switzerland girl).

Yesterday, I went to Huashan mount. One of the five sacred mountains in China.
I climbed for 9 hours (2000m of elevation). It was almost only stairs.