Hi all

After we have cruised the Li River we would like to cruise the Yangtze river, so could someone let us know how to get from  Guilin by bus and / or train and would it be easier to get to Yichang or Chongqing from Guilin?

Thank you for your time :) 

Blah blah, PLA still the largest army in the world blah blah.

What I want to know is what happens to those 200,000 disgruntled militarily-trained types.  I guess when you do this kind of thing, you just have to make sure that they're laid off in small groups far away from each other, so that they don't get the chance to band together somehow.

Can anyone recommend a tour company for a 10-14 day trek that includes Tiger Leaping Gorge..thank you

Does anyone know a good web site to book accomodation in these cities?

Can anyone recomend a good hotel that is reasonably priced and close to the city center?

Can you book hotels and train tickets with a single company to gain discount?

What: La Traviata performed by Northern Ballet Theatre

When: Jan 25-27 at 7.30pm.

Tickets: RMB 180-880

Telephone: 6551 6930 or 6551 6906.

only children’s play to be held in the vast Capital Gymnasium, featuring an ice cream cake large enough to break a Guinness world record and, no doubt, an earnings goal to match.

There is a giant ice cream mountain. There are bears on this mountain, fifty of them, of all colors and sizes. There is an evil alien bear, a heroic young baby bear, lessons about love and friendship, and finally, at the end of the show, the audience gets to eat the ice cream cake. Which, in the interest of exactitude, will measure four meters to a side, one and a half meters in height, and weigh in at ten tons.

Do yo know the french : José Bové in China ?

A long and very well written article from Harpers about China talks about China stereotypes, a bit of the reality of the sweatshops and factories that supply Walmart and IKEA, the migration to the cities, the water supply, power generation, and gives an interesting comparison with the United States.

Some quotes: 

Pile all the rocks in one place and you'd have the pyramids.

On the one hand, [China] must keep growing fast enough to absorb all that restless labor - the newspapers are already full of reports about college graduates unable to find jobs, and then there are those people pushed out of work in the vast and useless state heavy industries. And on the other hand, it must keep resource and energy use enough in check that China doesn't simply crash and burn. 

Latin Dance Music, DJ CAM

Happy Hour (buy one get one free) 7-9pm. 9pm-late

Thursday Jan 12th and Friday Jan 13th show starts at 8:00pm
Tickets     Tickets call Sherpas hotline at 6209 6209 or mailto:Shanghai@TheComedyTour.com
Price: 250RMB at door, 220RMB pre-sales ( to Jan 10th )
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