The last evening before i took the bus to Yangshuo we went for dinner downtown Guilin. There we meet Wendy and her sister. Later joined Vanessa – but she refused to be in the picture.
Another nice evening in China!

Wendy’s sister, Stan and Wendy downtown Guilin

Just to give you a hight idea

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At Sharon’s Coffe in Guilin.
Diana, Stan and Sharon

Did a day trip and meet this student’s from Guilin

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Took the subway to the airport – not to bad! My bags had to go to the x-ray at the subway station and i had to show the whiskey bottle and the gorilla pod – of course! Than on to the airport. They have Olympia volunteers all over the city now so it is easy if you have a question. Good thing as i could not find the shuttle bus for the other terminal.

The woman at the airline counter told me as i am not a Chinese i can not sit at the emergency exit (do not understand the commands in case…) but the friendly steward at the plane put me right into it – sweet!

Got down at 15:15 and everything is very very green here. I stay at Stan’s place. He is a Couchsurfer and really great! He hosted 3 people last night! We went out together and meet some of his friends. Makes for a really different experience. Today the other two left but soon 2 Canadian girls will replace them.

Sonia & Schutze’s place in Beijing

Airport Express Train Station

More motor bikes than cars

Nice – hope the sun get out tomorow…

look what i found in the little supermarket next to the place i stay!! only € 0.35 for a 0.33 ltr can! 0.5 ltr can’s of Königs Pilsner are €1.80

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Another day in the city. I really enjoy the flat of Sonia and Schutze. They are in Shanghai so i have the whole place for myself. In the living room they have floor to roof windows – great a lot of light and a lot to see – buildings for example

Today they put the “clean the air for olympia” plan in the capital in order – that means that on one day only cars with an even last number can drive and on the other the ones with uneven. This puts 2.000.000 cars out from the road. Lets see how the air is tomorrow. The city if full of new planted trees and still they work and work to make everything nice till august 8th. Yesterday i went to the “Birds nest” to make a few pictures – no way to get even close to it. It is fenced of and soldiers gard the whole thing. 2 bad!!! Security all over the place – today it was te 1st time that even i had to xray my camera bag before entering the subway.

I booked a flight down to Guilin at the 22nd! Like to see some green while i am over here.
The ticket need to be confirmed before so i hope that will work out.

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