What a trip!

Hi again!

Thailand was definitely worth visiting, now we are going to visit China. Getting to China was quite a journey, first we had to cross the border of Thailand to Myanmar. We took quite a couple of busses and trains to get there, after that we only had to cross the border of Myanmar up to China. It took a lot of paper work just to cross two borders, everything is well surveyed. But at least we made it without any difficulties.

Our main goal was getting to Peking, the capital of China but of course, not without visiting some interesting places. Such as the Jinma Biji Archway which is a traditional piece of architecture. It represents emblem of the city Kunming with a golden horse and a green rooster. Because of our long trip getting to China, the night was falling so this was a great opportunity for us because the archways were beautifully illuminated. Tired of our trip we had a good night sleep in one of the hotels nearby.

The next morning we went to see the Huangguoshu Falls which is also known as the Yellow Fruit Tree Waterfall. It is one of the smallest waterfalls in China but quite worthwhile visiting. The waterfall is located in Anshun on the Baihe River.  It is that popular because you get a lot of different views depending on the location of the viewer.

Because of our budget we wanted to save some money so we decided to  hitchhike, we were already close to a busy road so it was easy to get a ride. After a couple of hours we arrived at Chongqing. It is a very high-developed city with lots of skyscrapers because of the government’s investments. We were highly certain that we could easily find something nice to eat and afterwards a train that would take us far enough. Further on our trip we spend the night in Xiangfang, in a simple but nice hotel, the people were friendly as always. The host of the hotel even offered us dinner, which we definitely did not reject.

We went further on our trip by train, straight to Shijiazhuang. Over there we visited a very famous bridge called the Zhaozhou bridge. It is the world’s oldest open-spandrel stone segmental arch bridge. Although it looked quite simple, it was still very amazing.

By the end of the day we can definitely tell you that China is quite spectacular! You cannot imagine how big it is, there was so much to see. The last journey was taking a bus to the capital of China. We immediately went to bed because we were thrilled for the next day.

Thanks for reading our blog, hopefully you will keep on reading!

Sofie Van Laeken

Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhaozhou_Bridge
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (photos > curiosities)