He's in Dunedin.Originally Posted by Hoon
Forum whore
He's in Dunedin.
Bogeyman
When you first board the Yangtze river boat find the purser and tell him you want to upgrade to one of the front deck suites. Your tour guide will be pissed because he wanted to offer that choice to you for quite a bit more dosh, but he'll get over it.
The only drinkable wine in China can be found on board, unfortunately I can't remember what it's called. Try a few. Don't say I didn't warn you.
Do me a favour?
You'll probably go on a half day trip on small river barges on a tributary in the three small gorges (Shen Nong?). Take a soft toy with you and give it to one of the guide girls.
Go soothingly on the grease mud, as there lurks the skid demon
Forum whore
sure, consider it done
Kruger-Dunning Parts n Service
Wonder if the Chinese have realised the tourist potential of the dam. Pretty good doco here and learned a few new things from it.
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whoever did the subtitles isnt a native engrish speaker
Come warm yourself by the fire
What he said.
Also all the whore houses don't look like whore houses. The look like hair dressers and tea houses and shit. Way to find them is via a pink lightbulb outside - thus the name "Pink Palaces".
If you see a guy cooking meat on a stick, veggies on a stick etc......in what looks like old guttering - do try it, it was my favorite meal over there. Same with breakfast bread sticks (like a deep-fried french stick).
The horse and dog meat is average if you buy vacuum packed. But on the street tasted ok.
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well Singapore was very nice, very hot and very clean, Bejing not so hot not so nice and definittly not so clean. cant get facebook or utube here either
Scooter boy
Been up the Yangtze yet? Do you recommend it?
Come warm yourself by the fire
Ah yes - the great firewall of china. I don't miss that.
100% correct of the dirtiness though. Shanghai wasn't any better.
Don't go to china if you can't hack "fucking filthy". Is what I warn other.
Certainly was a massive culture shock for me to go Japan --> China.
You could smell "Poo-Dong" from the airport.
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Scooter boy
^^^ I take it you didn't try any "smelly tofu" then hahaha
Anarchic Wild Child
Drugs will do strange things to you ..
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Comfortably numb
China uses 3 different socket types and has 220V. Good useable chart here.
We did Singapore, UK, China a couple of years ago and took one of these with us. Doesn't convert voltage but as most transformers for laptop, phone, etc will accept 110-250V that's usually not an issue.
If you get a chance in Singapore check out the Maxwell Road Hawkers (food) Centre in Chinatown area. Brilliant food, very cheap (including the beer) and government certified for hygiene. Very popular with locals so expect to be in the minority there as a European. We stayed in the Scarlet Hotel just across the road and ate most of our meals there
Loud and Uncouth
And don't forget the dunny paper doesn't go down the dunny.
Even in hotels.
Unless it's a honky-only type hotel.
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yep it was good, like the rest of china it was hot and dirty
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