After visiting Xiahe and its monasteries, Chi and I got a bus to a village called Langmusi. It was a long journey but as we got closer, the hills and grasslands started appearing. Tibetan prayer flags formed huge teepees along the roads and on the hills bringing a riot of colour to the green and… Read More »
It was half way between Langmusi and Chengdu… well it was at least on the way to Chengdu where I needed to be, and I had seen pictures of the place and so I thought I’d take the 6 hour bus to Jiuzhaigou. I booked the Tibetan Barley Inn which was fine. After coming down… Read More »
I was a bit skint so no big holiday for me this summer. I looked at a map and decided that Gansu and Sichuan provinces looked interesting. So I got a cheap flight to Lanzhou and managed to avoid an overnight there by rushing down to the south bus station and hopping on the 1:30pm… Read More »
I am fed up of all my friends being away for my holiday as its always during holiday tie. It seems everyone has birthday parties except me. So I took drastic action and decided to have a birthday party when the weather was nice and when everyone was around. The South Bund was chosen as… Read More »
There are so many interesting jobs open to foreigners in China such as acting, modelling and being a fake business executive for a company. Recently I have done another typical foreigner job – the voice-over artist. Firstly I had to send the studio a voice sample. For this, I went into a soundproof room in… Read More »