In our desperate attempt to find a decent beach other than Hainan at this time of year, we decided to head to Qinzhou, near Beihai. We could see some beaches on Google map but as usual they were untraceable in real life. Asking some people around, we came out with this name : Saniang bay. […]
Huangguoshu Waterfalls黄果树瀑布
A nice place to visit around Anshun, but I think that despite the mass of tourists, it’s better to go in summer. The water level will be higher and the waterfalls more impressive. Huangguoshu Waterfalls is another artifical park. China’s mountains are, for most, impossible to reach by yourself so parks have been built throughout […]
on the road again
Once again we are leaving our cozy hostel to go to the unknown, the wild. This time we are heading to Xishuangbanna, at the border between China and Laos. It is the jungles and rainforest so we have no idea where we will be able to find a hostel. Tent and sleeping bags are ready, […]
Same goals, different ways
Most of what amazes us in China comes from these little daily habits we don’t notice until someone makes them in a different way. China is full of little differences, shocking, funny, clever and sometimes disgusting to an occidental eye. Nevertheless the ancestral China is present in all its people habits, now dissappearing with the […]
The quest for Suoshai 梭筛
We were the laughing stock of all our Chinese friends for wanting to visit a place like Anshun at this time of year. But we have decided to stop paying for tourist sights and try to find some peace in the real China. On a random Chinese website I’d found a few things to do […]
Change of plans
One of the perks of being a backpacker is that our trips are budgeted. Money does not fall from the sky and there is no way that working a year in China gives us enough to do this trip without limits. So we are used to budgeting, which means we are also used […]
Chongqing 重庆 and Wulong 武隆
Writing travel guides is not an easy task. I can write it for myself because I know what I want and what I am looking for, but I don’t know what you are trying achieve with your travel. As I mentionned in previous posts, travelling is a personnal experience nearly imposible to compare to another’s. […]
On the road again
It’s again this time of year. Like children wait for Christmas we wait the moment when we can travel again. Our backpacks were waiting for us, at least we like to think so… It’s time for us to at last practise our Chinese and set up for our big South-east Asia adventure. Two months in […]
