I arrived late last night (11:30PM) in Bangkok’s 1-year-old Suvarnbhumi airport. I was surprised how many people were there at that time of night and a lot of people were spending the night on the seats there. I met up with my Thai friend, Yu and then we took a taxi to one of her …
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Day 187 – Xiamen
Tonight I am leaving China on a budget airline called Air Asia to Bangkok, Thailand. My first flight since Detroit to Tokyo in September. My plan is to stay in Thailand about 30 days (that’s the limit on how long I can stay without a Visa), then maybe visit another country or two (Cambodia/Laos/Vietnam/Malaysia), then …
Day 186 – Xiamen
The city of Xiamen is located on the southeast coast of China. The weather here seems comparable to Florida. Not too hot, not too cold. The 24 hour train arrived on schedule. Got off the train and straight onto bus #1, which runs to Xiamen University, near a hostel. For dinner, I found a place …
Day 185 – Hangzhou to Xiamen
There were two trains leaving today, one at the close station in the morning, and the other at the far away station at night (after most of the buses stop running). I decided the safe thing to do was go to the close station, even though the train ride was going to be a few …
Day 184 – Hangzhou
I don’t think the heat was working in this room; no matter which buttons I tried pressing on the heater controls nothing worked correctly. Instead I put on all my blankets, turned my computer on and put it under my blankets to use it as a space heater. I slept alright. For breakfast I ate …
Day 183 – Putuoshan / Ningbo
I woke up around 4 or 4:30AM. I think it was a little too cold to sleep in the room, plus I had a lot of things to see. No Internet access out here either. First thing I did was walk up the mountain, which is about 300 meters or so high. I was the …
Day 182 – Ningbo / Putuoshan
I wanted to go see Mt. Putuo, which is also an island out on the ocean. There were at least 3 buses and a ferry involved, so I tried to get started early in the day. Without seeing anything in Hangzhou, I took a bus to the East Bus Station of the city. Then I …
Day 181 – Hangzhou
Not all the beds on the train were full until 4AM. That’s when I was woken up and had to move my backpack off the empty bed above me for new people. Some people bring there small children and sleep in the same small bed. I think in my 6ft by 6ft space there were …
Day 180 – Xi’an
Last day in this city. I woke up today feeling better for the first time in days. I knew I was finally on the road to getting over this sickness. One of my roommates was planning on climbing a mountain today but I wasn’t quite well enough to join him on that, however. I’ll have …
Day 179 – Xi’an
After another night of 12 hours of sleep, I’m still not feeling much better. I need to go out anyway and see one or two things at least. In the rain today I visited the Shaanxi History Museum and the Big Goose Pagoda. In the museum it was interesting to see 2000 year old swords …