Nanning Trip - Public transport experiences

Hello all,

Since term does not start until the 3rd September, we thought that we would be tourists again, and try some more public transport out in China. We have made a trip to Nanning, which is the regional capital of Ghuangxi (where we live).

Nanning is not really a "tourist" destination - traditionally it kept the armies to fight with Vietnam during the old days, and in the sixties was used to ship guns to the VC on their side this time...

Actually writing this from Nanning in a chinese internet cafe which I think is now trying to kick me off. Therefore, the next blog will come quickly and with more news of emails and other communications. By the way, the gmail appears to be working a bit better for us now... so you can continue to use these accounts.

Sorry for truncated blog...

Please stay tuned...

Lee and Johanna

We have arrived... in Guilin

Hello all,

First of all thanks for the feedback that we have received already (Liz and Ivano). Its nice to know that we are missed:)

We have arrived in Guilin after a 20 hour travel (this was including a few hours delay because of "leaking hydrolic fluid" in Finland which was very reasuring :))

The first week was spent cleaning degreasing the kitchen and removing coch-roach coloney. We think that we have won in the end.. Now it looks lovely, and overlooks the mountains. There are three rooms and a spacious living room, so we will always have space for guests.

Now we are relaxing and being tourists in YangShuo (around 70km south of Gulin). Some "stock" photos can be found at http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Yangshuo. We will try to put some of our photos up in the coming days.

Please be patient with our internet connection. We are currently using the "best yet" internet connection in China, and are often cut off from Google, and other internet sites. If you wish to send us an email, please use Johanna's GMX account, until further notice. (johanna.weilemann@gmx.de)

We will be writing more as soon as we can.