Xijiang Miao village courtyard

Xijiang Miao Village

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A while back I went to a very remote and culturally different place in China and have been meaning to write about it ever since. This place is Xijiang, a remote mountain village in isolated Guizhou province and home to the Miao people; one of the ethnic minorities of China. This place is  becoming more and more popular than tourists and if burying relatives alive and drinking Rice wine from a yaks horn sounds interesting to you, then you may want to consider going… The village is now a very popular tourist destination and has an abundance of hostels, guesthouses…

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Christmas dinner, A Chinese Christmas Special

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In the spirit of the festive season i thought that it would be interesting to see a Western Christmas dinner to cook Chinese style. That’s exactly what we did!   Picture of the bits that we left out of the roast Mashed potato, vegetables and a roast chicken, ate on paper plates and eaten with chopsticks. This was my first Christmas dinner in China and was a crazy fusion of Western tradition with an Eastern mix. After the dinner we cooked between us we went to a club and finished the night in style. Not a bad way to celebrate…

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The capital!

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Travel cost; 800-3000RMB return flight/ 400-800RMB sleeper train (If available) Accommodation; 70RMB/night (hostel) Daily budget; 250RMB It took me 10 months since first arriving in china to finally make it to the national capital thats Beijing. My September flight was expensive (1800RMB each way!) but after all the reading up I had done and study from learning Chinese I felt I knew exactly what to do and where to go for the five days I was there. In my opinion I think that there are 5 things in Beijing that you really need to see. This is what I did.…

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Guilin to Yangshuo

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Travel cost; 800-3000RMB return flight/ 370-800RMB sleeper train (If available) Accommodation; 50-80RMB/night (hostel) Daily budget; 200RMB Guilin, known by many Brits for it being ‘the place where that Chinaman uses that bird to catch a fish’ is some of the finest, stunning scenery that I have ever seen in my life. Guilin is actually a fairly large city in Guanxi, a province neighbouring my home province of Guizhou. From Guiyang, it is just a sleeper train ride away, and in summer 2013 I and my friends went on a weekend break there to remember. Guiyang to Guilin 12 hour sleeper…

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