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Alex Mumzhui with his Brompton on Silk Route to China.

Silk Road

Alex Mumzhiu
2006-03-20 17:44:21

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rather may take advantage of so different stranger. Nothing to compare with Russian hospitality, especially to foreigners. I eventually reach the point where I cannot see, smell and definitely eat Chinese food. For breakfast I ordered eggs with ham, but probably because it was done on Chinese skillet it smelled with Chinese smell and ham..., I do not know what animal it was made from.

Alex Mumzhiu
Guilin China
Nov 4 2002
10:30pm
Living in paradise

First I should thank my son Daniel for getting in this paradise. As you know I am a big fan of "Lonely Planet" tourbooks. But because my son Daniel already purchased "Let Us Go" tourbook I decided to give it a chance. "Lonely Planet" is better in all aspect except for one. "Lonely Planet" does not explicitally recommend really good places. They know, what because of enormous popularity of their books, the next year that place will be overrun by tourists. So they behave responsibly. The "Let Us Go" by contrast recommend places. "Let Us Go" highly recommended place called Yongsuo near Goilin. They said it has beautiful scenery, good and cheap housing, good food, friendly locals, good tourist infrastructure. I visited few such backpacker's paradise in the past. My readers may remember HoiYan in Vietnam and Pokhara in Nepal. So I take this recommendation seriously. The tourbook is failed to mentioned that the next to this backpacker's paradise in Yangsuo, the another place called "The Yangshuo Paradise Hotel" is located. This hotel was visited by every American President since Nixon, except for Reagan and Bush junior, and these guys will not go to bad place for sure. Yangshuo and Guilin both have incredible natural beauty. A thousands of limestone pinnacles almost vertically raise from the flat surface of earth. Climate is very moist here, so these pinnacles all over covered with vegetation. It look astonishing. Chinese believe that it is the most beautiful place on Earth. ...