The Route to Yangshuo with The Dragon Trip
We took a 20 hour train from Shanghai to Guilin, then a further 1.5 hour bus to Yangshuo. We said farewell to the 12 others we had been travelling with since Hangzou and picked up one more Brit, Felicity. We actually departed from Shanghai a day early so we could have an extra day in...Continue reading→
Shanghai with The Dragon Trip
I was feeling a little under the weather today so I decided to take it easy. We watched Iron Man 3D with an additional 8 minutes just for the Chinese not that we could understand it anyway! The others did a walking your to the propaganda museum but I was happy to get my Robert...Continue reading→
The Moghanshan Mountains with The Dragon Trip
We caught the 14 hour sleeper train leaving Beijing at 19.15 and arriving at Hangzou 9.00am. We met the other 12 people on our trip at the train station.. All Brits! Then we headed to West Lake and then to Monganshan. Monganshan is where we are staying the night in a hostel and is pretty...Continue reading→
Exploring Beijing with CRCC Asia
The original plan for day one was to accompany the older interns on a day trip to the summer palace, but due to the hangovers we all pretty much stayed in bed. Me and 2 others left earlier than everyone else the night before so we met around 4pm and explored a couple of the...Continue reading→
“Gan Bei”
So the drink culture is just as complicated as the dining culture, as learn from a culture lesson by CRCC Asia. From what I can gather there are two main types of alcohol consumed here, Baijou which is Chinese rice vodka and Pijiu which is Chinese beer. Baijou can range in strength from 40% – 60%...Continue reading→
