There are a lot of different minorities in China and especially in the Guizhou province. The two biggest are the Miao and the Dong. As we were leaving Kiali, we decided to make a trip through some of the more remote Miao villages. Fortunately for us, we stumbled upon Dylan Gu, a friendly Chinese guy who just setup his Miao Exploration Service the week before and was very happy to hook us up with a guide - a local Miao boy - who would show us around his village and some surrounding sights.

So we set off from Kaili with the morning bus (Continue…)

  As you’ve read, the weather turned for the worse since we left Xi’an and we had to spend a couple of days in the rain. Luckily for me, the one thing you can do when it rains, is eat and drink! Join me for a little tour around the rainy south-west of China. (Continue…)

As almost every backpacker we ended up sleeping at Mama Naxi’s place in Lijiang. The first night they managed to cram the 2 of us in 1 tiny bed, but the second night we moved to another room. Mama Naxi realy is as kind as everybody tells she is. (Continue…)

We talked about the sleeper train and how it wasn’t as adventurous as we wanted, but since then we’ve been on a sleeper bus and that was a whole different experience (Continue…)

After exploring the foodcounters in the Moslimquarter for almost the whole afternoon I could finally convince Gregory to do what we came for, visiting the Terracotta Army. Eventhough there was lots of competition from Hua Shan Mountain (one of China’s 5 sacred mountains) we decided to go and visit the army. How can we visit Xi’an and not go to the Terracotta Warriors. As we decided to fly to Lijiang on Tuesday there wasn’t enough time to do both of them. (Continue…)

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 Aha, the sweet culinary delights of Northern China. While the Southern cuisine is well-known in Europe (it’s what we order at the take-away Chinese), the Northern style is a whole new world to discover. (Continue…)

We had been warned that taking a train in China was going to be an adventure, that there would be Chinese spitting all over the place, chickens running around, our bags would get razored and that we would be freezing our ass off. So we prepared for the worse, and guess what… (Continue…)

After our first days in Beijing we soon felt like leaving from this city. Although it ain’t that busy and there is nothing wrong with it we have to admit that cities are not our cup of tea.

As our train for Xi’an is only leaving today we were a little bit stuck in the city. So we had to fill another 3 days in Beijing! Soon we decided to go for a 2 days trip to the Great Wall. We left at 6 in the morning with a tourbus to Jinshaling, a quieter and more spectacular place to view the Great Wall than many touristy sites. (Continue…)

Apparently heating is not an Option for youth hostels in Beijing. As nights are becoming colder Ine is having a very hard time to collect enough blankets to prevent from freezing.  (Continue…)