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Intrepid Season 2005 - China, Tibet, & Nepal (part I)

Brett Voegele
2005-11-19 14:15:37

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train here to Shanghai. It was one of our passengers birthday, so we had a little feast - complete with cake and copious amounts of beer and baijiu. Upon arrival here in Shanghai we had a free day, and then last night we booked a room at a restaurant for dinner and.....karaoke. It was an entertaining evening, to say the least.

Today is another free day, and then tomorrow we embark on our long train journey - 26 hours to Guilin. We'll visit the rice terraces at Longji, where we'll do some hiking. We'll also spend some time in Yangshuo, where we'll do some bike rides. I'll end up leaving the group there, such that I can get to my Tibet training.

And with that, you're up-to-date, so I'll sign off for this time.

April 10, 2005

Picking up from the previous Shanghai update, we did embark on the 26-hour train trip to Guilin. I was actually 'leader for the day' for some of that - including the train trip. However, playing drinking games with the locals and two big bottles of baijiu, while most of your group is down in the dining car talking, may not be the best method of leadership. Think I can pass it off as promoting local interaction?!?

We spent one night in Guilin before catching local buses to the rice terraces of the Longji region. I'd visited the area on my own before and had been duly impressed with the art and engineering of the terraces. It was probably better when I saw them last as it was around August and the paddies were green, whereas the villagers are just now beginning the planting this year. Still, it's always fun to see the same area in different seasons.

The first day we simply did a few short walks in the rain before eating and playing drinking games that night. The next day we tried to sweat out the poisons by doing a walk from the village of Ping An to ...