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From Guilin I had a night in the sleeping train to get changsha. I got in changsha at 6 am , it was still at night. A student tried to help me. I took a local bus to get a university, it was supposed to have beds availables for 30 Yuans. Once there, only private room really expensive, i came back in the center. After having the runs (stomackhache) in naning, i ve a cold now. I went to the chemistry, i didnt understand nothing, they gave me something after showing them my throat, i don t know how many pills i ve to take, but i trust in them, i take 2m sounds good number?.
Changsha is a really big city, 4 millions of inhabitants, i walked all day long , i haven t seen one foreigner...i think it the only country in the world where it can happen. I visited the home where lived Mao Zedong. I tasted a tea with chrysantem. I ve been also in a restaurant own by a arab family (they are muslims). Actually they look like more to algerians people that to chinesse...but they have been living here in china for severals centuries.
At the train station, i trusted also a student to buy my train ticket. THe trip was supposed to last the night. INstead of that, the trip lasted 4 hours. I arrived in Nanchang at midnight. I cheched hotel in my guide, i take a taxi to get the cheapy hotel. I woke up the receptionist, he told me that is was full. I was supposed to sleep all night long in the train instead of that i m ealking in a big city, looking for accomodation in the middle of the night (because of the poor english of this chinnesse student)!!! I found a top end category hotel, 16 euros , I bargained i got it for 12 euros...but it was really nice. No english channel on the TV. It s impossible to find international channel in china. In the travel agency, top end category hotel, tourist information...staf don t speak english.
Next morning, I applied by internet for an russian invitation in order to get the russina visa in Beijing.
I ve been 5 days now without meeting the least foreigner!!! Why they are so many tourists in vietnam? Chinesse are so much more friendly and honest ? I feel great with them.. THat s mysterious!!
I would like to discover the tradional china so on sunday i took tow buses to go to wuyuan, after i took another bus to go to licken, a small village in the mountains. People are excellents, the village has traditionals houses.
That s a so peaceful place. I pay 2 euros for a room in a homestay, the housewife never stop to speak to me in chinesse!!, i ve my hot water to make my own green tea..great
In china, you ve to be ready to be a star, people ask to you in the street to take a picture of you with them. Now i m in Hangshou, i m so impress about the number of cranes, site builiding everywhere: Bridges, roads, thoussands of building,...it s unbeelivable. You can see 50 buildings (the same design), under construction in the same time. Even on sunday, at night..thoussands of workers....working, pouring concrete,..
To finish that article i give you a number: 60 000...its the number of trees which are cut every day to supply the daily chopsticks for chinesse.
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