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Ev you back from China?

Ev went to China?  :blink:  

yeah...and I'm still in China

I've got no plans these few days so I'm just gonna surf the web a little, watch some TV and relax. I got myself shacked up in a five star hotel, they have some MAD fast broadband.

Oooooh, where are you/where did you go on your trip????  I might have seen you and not realized it!  LOL  

I stayed in Beijing for a few days, visited the forbidden city, the summer palace, a coupla monastaries by day...and went in for a little night life  :hehe:

Then I got my ass hauled to Xian, visited my cousins...slept in late and went spending big around town at night. Climbed Hua Shan and slept up there, and some other big assed mountain whos name I can't rightly spell...Stayed in a coupla times in the Grand Castle Hotel where I stayed. The five star service was cool...they had some water garden indoors with a live pianist at night, so I requested a few songs and drank a few Royal Coffees (btw: ALL the coffee in this country tastes awful). Then I got my ass hauled to this other five star hotel where I am now, the room is better, but there aren't such great facilities.

not a lot to say really...I'm just here sightseeing...on the point of which, I spotted this sign outside some old WW2 guerrila tunnel network outside Beijing

(http://img48.exs.cx/img48/5134/Image255.jpg)

Heh, I visited Beijing and Xi'an 2 weeks ago, so I guess I couldn't see you.  :P  Although, my tour group never got any treatment like that!  Was it because we looked too much like American tourists?  LOL

Ev- cute picture, but I'd much rather go to a restaurant that served "Anti-Chinese food" instead.  ;)  

Its not because you look american. Its because package tours are by nature cheap 'n flimsy...like a bad boob job. The nasty comments behind your back, the way drivers seem to be aiming right at you, the way people put out fag ends on your butt...THATS because you look american :P

I'm not with a tour group, I got too many people to see, things to do. Though China is a difficult place to get around if you don't know anyone, so if you're just visiting infrequently its still best to go with a package tour. I'm really starting to wish someone in this place knew how to make a coffee.

anti-chinese food huh?...dunno if a place like that would last long here  :alien:

Our tour was 10 people, so it's not like we were a mob of Americans... though we always attracted a mob of peddlers and beggars!  LOL

I'm sure that a non-Chinese restaurant would be good variety in China.... they seem to be lacking every type of food except the same old Chinese dishes.  :P

Oh, and the drivers just aim at everyone.  ;)  :hehe:  

they need somthing to keep them occupied all day

Except..... not many people own cars, except in Beijing.  :unsure:   I did see a lot of people sitting around on the streets to pass the time, though!  :)  

Lanair...thats just blatantly not true...I can find a KFC here in Xian by walking 50 meters in just about any direction...theres over 40 of them in Beijing...and about as many McDonalds. Though I don't suppose you went around visiting the fast food chains with your tour group.

As for cars...the roads are jam packed right now. Most are taxis or what I assume to be company cars...even the four lane roads are full.

That is, if you consider those places food.  ;)  A few of us actually wanted to stop at a McDonald's for dinner once (we were desparate for any American meal), but instead we got driven to another hotel.  LOL  

*decides to point out hamburgers arent american*

I think they are actually...an american saw a stall selling pieces of meat in between two slices of bread at a world convention in crystal palace. He took the idea and modified it, adding the meat in some sesame buns, creating the burger as we know it.

At least, thats what I heard.

Split into a topic of its own. Still in HQ as it isn't spam, however. Enjoy!

its was some european guy that decided to make mince then cook it like now except they were a lot fatter and squat

I was waiting for that!  LOL

Ev- since you're in Xi'an, have you seen the terra cotta soldiers yet?  :)  

:o is that the excavation in the mountain? i really wanna see that  :miffed:  

that would be really cool :cool:  

Meh, I didn't like it too much.  All you could see were the 3 pits with the terra cotta soldiers in them... and the pits weren't completely excavated.  A lot of the soldiers were broken, too.  I wanna go back in 10 years when they finish the job.  :(  

id like to go back 2200 years and see it when it was finished

Oooh, or go into the actual tomb, which is supposed to be amazing (but is closed to the public).  Of course, if you saw the Emperor's tomb and army, you'd probably be killed to protect it's location/contents.  LOL  

i think it would bea little hard to keep its location secret with all that stuff being moved there

Well, until 1990-something is was a secret!  Everyone after the early Han Dynsaty didn't know where the tomb was, since it was camouflaged as a giant mountain.  ;)  

yea but i mean at the time, someone would get suspicious over all the wagon trains

I've pretty much seen all there is to see around here. The terracotta warriors are kinda...um...crap. To be honest theres not much to see and say about a bunch of statues, a lot of them disfigured. Its like the great wall, you gotta go and see it...but once you get there, theres not much to be done about it.

Heh... I agree about the soldiers, but the wall was different.  My brother and I climbed up the steeper half.... and I mean steep.  In places the wall was going up at a 60 degree angle.  Man, that was hard.  :ph34r:

By the way, I have the long-awaited picture gallery here!!!  Go to this site (http://www.olympus.ofoto.com/I.jsp?c=9ouitre.19460hky&x=1&y=-uhb60o) to see them.  BTW- you might have to register, so just do so.  :)

ah got there eventually.

nice. these are like my dads pics of Thailand

boo <_<  

Seriously?  That sucks..... but the pictures are worth the wait!

Gimme your address and I'll air-mail you our photo album!   LOL  

compared to some of the places you can go...

...like climbing Hua Shan up cliff edges as steep as 90 degrees

a wall just ain't so hot...and theres always so many people there

yeah that'll happen. :P  

can you do climbing tours in china? that would be great

dunno, but all the tour groups here are just out for money, they pack too many events in..you'll have a better time if you go by yourself with a guide or a relative or something

I wanna go to the Olympics in China.

Hopefully Beijing will look more presentable by then!  LOL  

I'll probably be there for the olympics...if I'm lucky maybe I'll actually get some tickets :P

If you're lucky you'll get laid to meet me ^_^

Hopefully it'll be better than Athens!  ^_^

You can still get some tickets to the Olympics now, if you want.  LOL  

I heard the food in beijing sucks :/ well thats what my parents say anyway.

haven't been to beijing myself, but just visited the south of china mainly, by hong kong to guang zhou areas, about 2 years ago.

 

I am not accustomed to traditional Chinese dishes.

I am, yummy as hell :)

I thought that meant that you were yummy as hell.  I wouldn't mind a taste to prove it though :P

you still want that bottle of man juice?

Sure... you should come by and give it to me in person ;)

i lack the funds to send my body to america :/ but i might go over to america someday in the future, when i do you'll know about it.

yAy! *huggles DDM*

No to stray back on topic, but.... the food in Beijing is just like all over China (except Sichuan).... blah.  I think all the food in that country is a bit too greasy and salty.  ;)  

It's not like it's any better here.

I dunno; I can get some good Chinese food here.... it has more flavor and is... well... better.  ;)