Wandering Secrets

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 […]

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 […]

    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 […]

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. […]

My first months in china have been difficult, there’s no other way to say it. Work, food, language and especially people were hard to handle although not impossible. Months later I’m inthe same room as I was when I published 外国人, when I thought I would never survive this place, when I thought China would […]

10 A.M: A summer day in XI’an. To get up in the morning, sweep the thin layer of dust off the floor, off the bed sheets. Looking through the window. Smiling at the blue sky before I open the window and see that the sky is not blue, blue is the window glass. Take a […]

This post was long due. Something for the brave people that come to China by themselves without speaking the language. Something for the solo travelers that are looking to see more than the Terracotta army and the pagoda around Xi’an. I say solo, because when we are two we are invincible, fearless, intrepid. Laughing when neither […]

How did we end up there? I don’t really know. But this giant Buddha is sure worth it, as is the town near it. At only a 100km away from Xi’An, 大佛寺, Shaanxi’s biggest Buddha, is right on the road of silk. You would think it is a touristic and famous site but that would […]