Bus broke down stop
Bus broke down stop, originally uploaded by miguelanjo. On the trip between Litang and Shangri-la the bus refuse to work for about 20 minutes. Meanwhile, the driver with help of some passengers moved petrol from one tank to another and did some other things in the inside of the bus to pump manually the petrol. […]
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First and most important reason why Hong Kong is not China: You have to pass immigration. You officialy leave China (that’s why we needed a double-entry visa) and get a Hong Kong stamp. The traffic is left-sided. The buses don’t look like they’re going to fall apart any minute, and their exhaust fumes don’t smell […]
Read MoreNight Train Philosophies – Shenzhen to Guilin
After hanging around at Mc Donalds for half of the afternoon, we boarded our night train in the early evening in Shenzhen, a Chinese city close to Hong Kong. We shared our compartment with a Chinese man who fell asleep very early, so we didn’t make much noise, did a bit of reading and then […]
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