We have spent one month backpacking through China in October 2007. It’s a huge country and one month is certainly not enough to see even the half of it. But still, i think we have a fairly good impression of China (except perhaps the Shanghai area). (Continue…)

 After Guiyang our culinary exploits became limited to very classic dishes such as boiled chicken and stirfried vegetables, not much worth mentioning. Our next stop however, had been labelled “the best place to sample Cantonese cuisine”. That place is Guangzhou, capital of the Gu    izhou province and home to some 3 million Chinese. (Continue…)

After visiting many cities on our way, we finaly discovered a very beautifull piece of nature here in Yangshuo.The whole area is covered with stunning little karst mountains and waterways.

Idealy to do some walking or a little tour by bike.

See all of our pictures here.

Next tuesday, we’ll be travelling for one month through China. Can you guess:

1) how many busses we took?
2) how many different beds we slept in?
3) how much we spent on food (average per day in euro)?

Leave your guesses as a comment. The winner will receive a free drink (when we’re back

After being on a side track for a week we decided to go and visit another wow tourist attraction on our way… the Dragon Backbone Rice Terraces.

Described in travelguides as THE must see place in China, especially in October with its spectacular vistas while the rice is stunningly golden. Who would not go there??? So after a week of almost no tourists, we arrived after another busmarathon of 13 hours in Longsheng. (Continue…)

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…)

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…)

 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…)