happygolucky.no » china http://www.happygolucky.no the life of marius arnesen in pictures, text and some video... Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:55:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Pictures from China http://www.happygolucky.no/2007/07/26/pictures-from-china/ http://www.happygolucky.no/2007/07/26/pictures-from-china/#comments Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:25:38 +0000 Marius Arnesen http://www.happygolucky.no/main/2007/07/26/pictures-from-china/

The Great Wall - China

In a nice flow with getting my pictures from the Asia trip out on the web now. These are the last ones from China :)

My China Flickr Set

Flickr China SlideShow

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Last night…. It is a pretty amazing view….

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This park is full of interesting signs….

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In this strange little park we found a walking circuit of different stone layers…. It hurts like hell, but you are supposed to feel very relaxed in your legs afterwards…. According to two christian missionarys on the same path-del-a-pain, this is a very common thing in Hong Kong…. Sic sic city :)

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We are spending the first part of this day in Victoria Park, in Causeway Bay in Hong Kong. Mari is in charge of buying fruit, and strange things like “Dragon Fruit”, “Rambutan” and the more ordinary “Mango” is on the menu. Later tonight we start the journey back, heading towards Moscow.

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From -2 degrees in Lhasa, to 22 degrees in Hong Kong….and, obviously, the temperature is not the biggest change…. :)

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We just arrived in Hong Kong…. I think we both just got a real overload…. This city is sick….. Tomorrow will be exciting….

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Got up very early today to go to the airport. Since nobody could tell us if the taxi ride would take 1 hour or 2 hours (it seemed to depend on if a new road was open or not) we decided to be there way before our departure time…. Just in case.

Since the taxi ride took 40 minutes, driving in 140 km/h….. We got there in time…. We actually got there before the Airport had opened…. Even before the Airport Hotel had opened (at least there where nobody in the reception….)

When the Airport finally opened, we got to wait for 2 hours in the freezing cold departure hall, before boarding…. When airborn though, the view was pretty amazing.

Now we are hanging out at Chengdu airport, waiting for our flight to Shezchen. From Shezchen we will eighter take train or boat to Hong Kong tonight. (ps. I am pretty happy with my packing…. )

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We are on the train on our way to Lasa…. Heading into the Himalaya. Exciting.

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Spending the day wandering around in the muslim quarter of Xi’an. Very strange combination of islamic culture and old chinese culture. Very far from the Islamic Middle East. The picture is taken inside the Great Mosque Complex.

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Hanging out in Xi’an waiting for our permit for Tibet to get ready. Hopefully we will be able to get on a train or plane headed for Lhasa tomorrow morning.

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Have just eaten a great chinese meal…. The first one we have really enjoyed. Roasted duck…. or “Roasted buck” as the english menu says….

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We have spent the day with the Terracotta Warriors in Xi’an. To be honest, quite boring….

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Another night train. Another 3rd “floor” bed. ( aka. looser bed). When we wake up we will hopefully be in Xi’an, together with 6000 terracotta warriors.

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This has been our home here in Ping Yao. Very nice Guesthouse, with a very friendly staff and reasonable prices.

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Last day in the Ping Yao village. Tonight we get on another night train heading for Xi’an. Since Ping Yao isn’t that big, and we pretty much saw the most of it yesterday, today is dedicated to the art swedish “softing” and reading some pulp fiction (“Veien til Jerusalem”, also swedish)

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Eating out in Ping Yao. Quite some menu…. When in Rome…. :) (NO WAY!!!)

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First day in Ping Yao. Great little city with an intact city wall from the Ming dynasty. Lots of small streets with old buildings and people on their bicycles…. Small-town China it is. We have found a small guesthouse within the city walls, with an english speaking staff and a nice little room. Only drawback is that there is no tap water at all during the day, due to heavy work on the city’s piping system…. (Rumors has it that it will be water tonight) Still, it’s a pretty cool place to stay.

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Right now we are situated in the top bed (third “floor”) on the night train from Beijing to Ping Yao. Last day in Beijing we saw the “Temple of heaven”, which was rather disappointing, and did some shopping at a crazy fake-market…. (Mari bought some pearls at a famous pearl-market) Ate at KFC and was pretty proud when we managed to get on the right train to the right time (Remember: everything is in chinese, and NO ONE speaks english…. Not even YES or ON)

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Last ride in an Armored Beijing Taxi…. Øystein is riding shotgun, shit chatting in this strange language as usual, while Mari and me are getting ready to enter the rest of China on our own….

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After 3 days in Beijing we will be heading towards “Ping Yao” tomorrow. Going by nighttrain in something called “Hard Sleeper” class…. Think that will be interresting.
After a coulpe of days in “Ping Yao” we will go to “Xi’an” and visit the Terracotta Worriers.

In Bejing we have visited “The Forbidden City”, “Tian anmen”, “Summer Palace” and “The Great Wall”. Tired after all this sightseeing, I think it will be great to go to “Ping yao” and to nothing for a couple of days…

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We are hanging out on Øystein’s student restaurant after a long day at the “Summer Palace”.

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Finally we have reached Beijing. We are living with Øystein in his spacey student room. Pretty none-tourist China it is. We however, are real Tourists. Yesterday we visited the “Forbidden city” and “Tianan men”. Today we head for “The Summer Palace” and tomorrow “The Great Wall” is scheduled. Since GPRS isn’t very common here…. blogging will be a little sporadic….

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As always: Same, same…. But different.:)

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After a rather bumpy ride in the Tupolev-Monster, we are now at Sheremetevo airport outside Moscow…. Here you can visit approximately 25 different Tax-free shops, eat in over priced restaurants and buy Babushka dolls for 9000 nok….

Coke tastes like it does in all other places on this world, people smoke everywhere, there is Red Hot coming from the loudspeaker in the cafeteria and there is no way in hell we understand a single word the people here say, even when it is supposed to be in english….

Perfect timing for consulting with our friend mr. LonelyPlanet on what to do tomorrow in Beijing.

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We are on our way to China…. Miss Ekkje is enjoying her breakfast….

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Part of getting ready to leave for China and Tibet is vaccination.

Luckily I got most of what I needed and only have to drink this stuff to prevent Cholera… Thats OK by me ;)

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Getting ready to enter the Peoples Republic of China…

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Visiting the Chinese consulate in Oslo, applying for Visa to the Peoples Republic… Very interesting conversation with the woman behind the counter:

- Is this where I deliver the Visa application?
- ONE VISA IN EACH PASSPORT!
- ok…
- VISA BE READY FRIDAY. YOU PAY THEN!!
- ok… thank you!

Happy Shiny People of the Republic ;)

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