In the first place, we are very grateful to the chinese people - and there are many of them - who were so helpful to make our trip a success. Some day, somewhere, we have read: China, you hate it or you love it and this is actually true. Anyhow, if possible, we hope to return to explore new regions and to meet again our newmade friends. Things to remember:
- we used several trains 40 hours, several sleeperbuses 20 hours...and we were never embarrassed through smoking or splashing meals. F.i. on one of these hardsleepertrains, a policeman started smoking his cigarette...however, Griet pointed to the sign that smoking was prohibited. The PSB man laughed, opened our window and threw his cigarette through it.
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- In Lijiang, we showed our busticket to a passenger, she smiled and confirmed that this was our bus. A few days later, we met her in Dali with her husband and she pulled us to the guesthouse, where she was staying. Conversation was impossible, but we got a nice cup of tea, took pictures, exchanged adresses - impossible to read for us. But being home again in Belgium, we received a nice present to remember China and regularly emails from her family. Hoping to meet them again in the beautiful province of Xishuangbanna, where they live. See pictures below.
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In Datong: we liked to make some videofilm about the daylylife of the chineses. As a rule, we always ask pemission to do so and on the market, the people refused. However along the street, 2 women were repairing shoes and we asked if we could film - a man made a sign, we could. Lateron, when crossing a street to change checks in a bank, a woman with a bike, suddenly pulled on my camera. Being in the bank with her, the employees explained, that the woman wanted to have the pictures removed. It was apparently her, who repaired the shoes. We whiped out everything with some difficulties, but again on the street, she was hanging on me again and wanted money. Then, we got upset ourselves, called a taxi and disappeared to the main branch of this bank, leaving this woman behind with her bike. Afterall, this was the only problem of this kind we had in China.
To every traveller visiting this website
Although we have already travelled quite a bit, it is however our first time that we launch a website on this matter. We have done our best to bring you practical info and a touch of the beauty and the atmosphere of China. We love hearing from you
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For those wanting first hand info, you may contact us on our adress
SARLET ERIC, Grote Thems 3 - 8490 Varsenare by Brugge Belgium,. See : http://users.skynet.be/brugge
Tel: 32.(0)50.38 63 18 - Fax: 32.(0)50.39 29 46
The following video films are available at WEGWIJZER
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