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So I last left you in Auckland taking the flight to HongKong.
I arrived to hongkong after a flight that was really nice and passed fast, I reached the city pretty easily and descended from the bus to the station where I got a recommendation for a cheap place to sleep. Right when I come off the station I see the area is like the tachana merkazit in israel, just with huge skyscrappers. Straight away a chinese guy jumps on me to offer me a place to sleep, since it's in the same place where I got a recommendation I followed him, he led me to miridor mansion, which is a huge building full of foreign workers and backpackers looking for cheap place to stay, we went to the 13 floor and he showed me the room for 60HK dollars I get a dump, with 8 other people sleeping in the office with dirty sheets and dirty everything, I said no thank you and went down to the 12 floor where the guest house i was recommended could be found. But since it was already 21:00 it was full, so I had to go back and sleep in that dump.
The positive thing was that I met a swedish and dutch guy who talked to me a lot about china.

Hong Kong and China

Omer Ramote
2006-10-23 14:35:49

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/>We got a sleeper seat, and after getting on the train we found out the train is clean and comfrtable and it was really easy to sleep, the 16 hours past really fast. We arrived at guilin and took a bus to yangshou straight since it's a city known to be very beautifull and full of backpackers. On the train we met a guy from hongkong who speaks english and is going to yangshou so we just followed him, all was very easy. Arriving at yangshou we found a guesthouse pretty quick and everything was smooth.

Ofcourse there were alot of little stories with chinese people trying to rip you off but if you are not too dumb they don't manage to do it.

Yangshou was a great place, many westerners and chinese mixing together, it surrounded by mountains/hills which look like they just come out of the ground.
In yangshou we met 2 israeli couples and another israeli traveller(shlomi), we had dinner together and shlomi decided to join us for a trip the next morning.
So the next day took a bicycle and went to a famous hill called the moonhill which has a hole in the middle of it, after that we decided to go back through the villages instead of on the highway, this was 16 hours and waiting.
a wonderfull experience, we got lost 20 times, spent 4 hours to get back while it took us 40 to get there, but we got into a lot of tiny villages, with rice terraces, we almost circled a river, it was a wonderfull day and we had a lot of fun.

I stayed there till my birthday the 16 of may and we celebrated there with a nice dinner, I even got a birthday cake, it was a lot of fun.

After 3 days in yangshou we decided to move to a really tiny village called pingan, which is located on top of a mountain, the special thing is that the mountain is full or rice terraces, those crazy chinese just built rice terraces all over the mountain, it is a very relaxed village and we wanted to spend there 2 days before taking a train to kunming, the capital ...