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A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to TianTouZhai Village, China by TravelPod blogger Jannettek titled “Dragon’s Backbone Rice Terraces”. TravelPod is a company of TripAdvisor™. Jannettek’s travel blog entry: “There is lots of discussion and good advice online about where to stay at the rice terraces. We had chosen to stay at TianTouZhai village which is an uphill walk from Dazhai (no road up there). It sounded just what we wanted and we found it to be so. Hannah the owner of JinTian Guesthouse where we stayed had organised seats in a little bus that goes to nearby Dazhai (no need to go via Longsheng as many advise). We could walk from our Guilin hotel to meet the bus at the railway station at 8.30am, leaving our suitcases at the luggage storage area at the station and taking only our daypack. We had already experienced previously the touts trying to get us onto a bus to Yangshuo but this morning, as we walked along the rows of buses etc looking for our bus, we were approached by a guy who wanted to help find our bus. As we couldn’t find it we showed him the number plate we were looking for. ‘Coming in five minutes’ he said. When it arrived it had a different number plate, but he assured us he was the owner and it was a busy day etc. He even pulled out a card from his wallet with the correct number plate, but I noticed he had a swag of them. He put a lot of effort into trying to persuade us to get on his bus, but when he realised we weren’t coming he took …
A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Hong Kong, China by TravelPod blogger Marie_mc titled “The bright lights of Hong Kong!”. TravelPod is a company of TripAdvisor™. Marie_mc’s travel blog entry: “‘Asia’s world city’ As the locals now call it! Commerce and Enterprise hits you as soon as you land. The skyscrapers, the modernity, the buzz of a global city! I (Mufajel) had been here before about 5 years ago, and it was nice returning to this great city. As it was an expensive place, a taxi form the airport was out of the question, so we got on the efficient metro system. We got off an Mong Kok, which was where the hotel was located. It was about midnight by then, but still full of people! (An interesting fact is that Mong Kok is meant to be the most densely populated square mile on the planet, this is an amazing reference point for when we visit the world’s least densely populated state in the planet, Western Australia). We asked a few people for directions to the hotel, but no one knew where it was. We even asked a few cabbies and they never heard of it. We made the mistake of not printing off the hotel address!! And now we were in a place with mostly Chinese signs, and no map! It was hopeless. We walked around to try and find a cybercafé, so that we could print off the address and map! Luckily this being Hong Kong, it was probably one of a few places on the planet you could find a cybercafé open at 1am!! However finding it was a different matter. There we …
