Our group Consists of a dutch couple, 1 french guy and a swedish girl.

Day 1
We set out at around 10.30 with our so called guide/driver/cook Freddy!
First we go to a site close to town called the train cemetery, and as you might guess by

After this we start our drive towards the Salar de Uyuni, the salt flats.
We stop at a place were the salt starts, where it is the only place where they process the salt. Here there is just a lot of salt piles lying around.

We continue to a place called the fish island, it is a place in the middle of the salt desert

After this we drive to where we will spend our first night, a hotel made out of salt!
The floor is covered with salt crystals and tables, beds, chairs are all made out of blocks of salt. We spend the night having a nice dinner and chatting. We go to bed quite early

Day 2
We get up at 6 for breakfast and we are suppose to leave at 6.30. We are running a bit late (well, our driver is...) so once we leave Freddy decides to take a short cut, apparently this shortcut is through the mud, and of course the jeep gets stuck...deep in the shit so to say...

We spend 6 hours trying to get it out, we are all covered in mud, so finally we go back to the salt hotel for lunch while our driver freddy stays and tries more. One reason to why it is so hard to get out is that only the backwheels work, the jeeps very important 4 wheel drive does not work...

At 5 in the afternoon we go back to see whats happening and the car has moved about 15 meters since we left it. Freddy is now joined by another driver and some locals that are a bit more clever than him (thank god). After 2 more hours, exactly 12 hours after we got stuck we manage to get it loose. We drive back to the salt hotel to spend another night when the engine dies, apparently the carburator. Luckily the other driver is a mechanic so he fixes it after 1 hour. We all realise both our driver and the car is pretty much Kaputt...

We spend the night playing cards and drinking beer...and spend another night in the salt hotel...which was not planned...

Day 3

After the troubles of the day before, we manage to leave anyway... all of us ready to see more!!

So we first went to see a volcano, that you can see smoke a little, but it is quite far...
We still enjoyed the surroundings... it is like being in a western film with all the rocks and the desert!

We then went to the valley of the rocks where you can find some local rabbits who are quite funny because they are hairy!! Ola tried to catch one, but didn´t succeed!! They are too quick those rabbits!

We then arrived to the stone tree... as the name says it is a stone that has the shape of a tree... it is very amazing actually!! Nature creates weird stuff!! Ola tried to climb it, but it was not allowed, and quite hard anyway.

After the stone tree we proceeded to Laguna Colorada, a natural red lake, absolutely beautiful, with pink flamingos in it. Thi is also where we spend the night, n a very basic lodging. Since we are one day late, our original hotel is full, so we have to sleep here, it is ok, but there is no showers, and the food is not that good.

We spend the night playing shithead (card game) and drinking cheap rum with our group. It is all very fun! then it is time for sleep because we are supposed to get ip at 5 the next morning.

Day 4
We were suppuse to be woken up at 5 by our driver, but at 5.20 I (ola) wake up and have to wake everyone up. I go outside to look for Freddy and I find him fixing something with the front wheel... after a while he is finished, and we all leave, a bit late again.

now there is nothing left to see, half our group gets dropped off 30 minutes after the laguna verde to catch a transfer to Chile. now it is only me, agnes and the swedish girl Emma going back to Uyuni.

10 minutes after we drop the other guys off our car breaks down again! something with the engine, Freddy looks at the engine and we stop another jeep that is not full of people and ask if we can get a ride back to Uyuni, so we leave freddy and the car behind and 6 hours later, without any car trouble, we are back in Uyuni.

We go straight to the agency to talk to them and ask for money back. The ignorant lady there just says that there is no money in the office, it is all deposited in the bank, so we ask to speak to the manager, and she says that the manager is in La paz. She makes a few phonecalls and says that someone is calling to La Paz. She offers us 10 dollars each and we all say no way. Then like through some kind of miracle she says another lady (a manager) is coming to talk to us, I think that either she teleported herself from La Paz or she was in Uyuni the whole time...

After a lot of talking and time (and we are running out of time because our bus for La Paz is leaving soon) she offers us 15 dolars each and we say no again, finally she gives us 20 dollars each which is about a third of what we payed from the beginning and we leave, dirty, tired and hungry, but at least 20 dollars richer.

So now we are in Arequipa and tomorrow we are leaving for a 3 day trek in the worlds next largest canyon, the Colca Canyon...

Bisous and kisses

Agnes and Ola

TRADUC......
Salty, muddy and wet ! but beautiful
Salé, boueux et humide ! mais magnifique

Uyuni, Bolivia

Après avoir beaucoup voyagé en bus sans avoir vraiment dormi et avoir reçu des remontrances et autres choses drôles de vieilles grosses femmes boliviennes, nous sommes arrivés à Uyuni, la ville d’où nous devons partir pour une excursion de 3 jours dans le désert de sel ! notre groupe se compose d’un couple de Hollandais, 1 Français et une Suédoise.

JOUR 1
Nous sommes partis vers 10 h 30 avec notre soi disant guide/chauffeur/cuisinier/Freddy ! tout d’abord, nous sommes allés sur un site proche de la ville appelé le cimetière des trains, et comme son nom l’indique, il y a plein de vieux trains sur lesquels il est rigolo de grimper, mais on n’y a pas passé beaucoup de temps.
Après cela, nous sommes partis pour les salins de uyuni, les étendues de sel.

Nous nous sommes arrêtés à un endroit où le sel commence et où c’est le seul lieu où ils transforment le sel. Ici, il y a des piles de sel tout autour. Nous avons continué jusqu’à un endroit appelé l’ile au poisson. C’est un endroit au milieu du désert de sel avec une très belle vue et beaucoup de gros cactus. Nous avons passé un peu de temps ici, avons déjeuné et pris des photos. Puis, nous sommes repartis et avons demandé à Freddy de s’arrêter au milieu du désert de sel où c’est complètement blanc et où l’on pourrait faire des photos drôles… on peut tenir les gens debout ou assis dans sa main, ou la voiture sur son bras…
L’étendue de sel est absolument fantastique et d’un blanc aveuglant… et si vaste qu’on a l’impression de ne pas avoir de fin…

Après cela, nous avons roulé en direction de l’endroit où nous devons passer notre première nuit, un hôtel fait de sel ! le sol est recouvert de cristaux de sel, et les tables, lits, chaises sont faits de blocs de sel. Nous avons passé la nuit autour d’un bon diner et avons bavardé. Nous sommes allés de bonne heure au lit car il fallait nous lever tôt le lendemain.

JOUR 2
Debout à 6 h pour le petit déjeuner car nous devons partir à 6 h 30. nous sommes un peu en retard (mais notre chauffeur est….) donc Freddy a décidé de prendre un raccourci qui passe par la boue, et évidemment la jeep s’est embourbée… bien profond dans la m…..
Nous avons passé 6 h à essayer de l’en sortir. Nous étions tous couverts de boue, alors finalement nous sommes retournés à l’hôtel de sel pour déjeuner tandis que notre chauffeur Freddy restait et essayait de s’en sortir. La difficulté majeure, c’est que ce ne sont que les roues arrières qui fonctionnent, le reste non.
À 5 h de l’après midi, nous sommes retournés voir ce qui se passait. La voiture avait bougé d’environ 15 mètres. Freddy a été rejoint par un autre chauffeur et quelques locaux qui sont un peu plus malins que lui (merci mon Dieu). 2 heures après, exactement 12 h après que nous nous sommes embourbés, nous avons décidé de renoncer. Nous sommes allés à l’hôtel de sel pour y passer une autre nuit. Le moteur est mort, apparemment le carburateur. Heureusement, l’autre chauffeur est un mécanicien et il a réussi à le fixer au bout d’une heure. Nous avons tous compris que et notre chauffeur et la voiture étaient kaputt…
Nous avons passé la nuit à jouer aux cartes et à boire de la bière… et passé une autre nuit à l’hôtel de sel… ce qui n’était pas au programme….

JOUR 3
Après les galères du jour précédent, nous décidons de partir…. Tous bien décidés à en voir un peu plus !!
Donc nous sommes allés voir un volcan dont on peut voir la fumée, mais c’est un peu loin… mais on a bien aimé le paysage… c’est comme si nous étions dans un western au milieu des rochers et du désert !
Nous sommes allés dans la vallée des rochers où l’on trouve des lapins locaux qui sont rigolos parce qu’ils ont plein de poils ! ola a essayé d’en attraper un mais sans succès ! ils sont trop rapides ces lapins !!
Nous voici devant l’arbre de Pierre… et comme son nom l’indique, c’est une Pierre qui a la forme d’un arbre… c’est très surprenant ! la nature est étonnante ! ola a essayé de grimper mais ce n’était pas autorisé, et de toutes façons c’était trop difficile.
Après l’arbre de Pierre, nous sommes arrivés à Laguna Colorada, un lac naturel rouge, superbe, peuplé de flamands roses. C’est là que nous avons passé la nuit, dans un habitat très basique. Du fait que nous avons un jour de retard, l’hôtel réservé est plein. Ça va quand même mais nous n’avons pas de douche et la nourriture n’est pas bonne. Nous avons passé la nuit à jouer aux cartes et à boire du rhum bon marché avec notre groupe. C’est très drôle ! il est l’heure de dormir parce que nous devons nous lever à 5 h du matin.

JOUR 4
Nous devions être réveillés à 5 h par notre chauffeur, mais à 5 h 20 moi ola je me suis réveillé et ai dû réveiller tout le monde. Je suis sorti pour chercher Freddy et je l’ai vu qui fixait quelque chose sur la roue avant… après un moment il en a eu terminé, et nous sommes partis encore en retard.
Nous allons voir des geysers. C’est à environ 1 heure et nous avons vu avant d’arriver dessus une quantité de vapeur ! nous nous sommes promenés autour de mares d’eau en ébullition et de la boue qui sentait le soufre (odeur de l’œuf). Il y a de la vapeur qui sort de partout et le paysage est lunaire.

Après avoir pris une tasse de thé et du pain, nous nous dirigeons vers le laguna verde. C’est un très beau lac dans lequel se réfléchissent les montagnes qui le bordent.
Il n’y a rien d’autre à voir. La moitié de notre groupe nous a quittés 30 minutes plus tard pour un transfert vers le Chili. Il n’y a plus que moi, Agnès et Emma la Suédoise qui retournent à Uyuni. 10 minutes plus tard, le reste du groupe nous quittait et la voiture tombait en panne à nouveau ! c’est le moteur… nous arrêtons une autre jeep et lui demandons si nous pouvons être emmenés à Uyuni. Nous laissons donc Freddy et 6 heures plus tard, sans autre problème, nous sommes à Uyuni.
Direction l’agence pour les informer du problème et nous restituer de l’argent. La femme nous dit simplement qu’il n’y a pas d’argent au bureau, que tout est déposé en banque et nous demandons à parler au directeur. Elle nous dit que le directeur est à La Paz. elle passe quelques coups de fil et nous informe que quelqu’un appelle La Paz. Elle nous propose 10 dollars à chacun d’entre nous, ce à quoi nous disons « pas question ». Et alors, comme par miracle elle nous dit qu’une autre femme (responsable) arrive pour nous parler. Je pense que soit elle s’est téléportée de La Paz soit elle n’a pas quitté Uyuni….
Après avoir palabré un certain temps (et il nous faut nous dépêcher car notre bus pour La Paz va bientôt partir), elle nous offre 15 dollars chacun. Refus de notre part… enfin, ce sera 20 dollars chacun, ce qui représente environ 1/3 de ce que nous avons payé, et nous repartons sales, fatigués et affamés, mais plus riches de 20 dollars !
Nous voilà donc maintenant à Arequipa et demain nous partons pour une rando de 3 jours dans le Colca Canyon qui est le plus grand du monde….

Bisous and kisses

written by  agnesola on October 3, 2007 from Uyuni, Bolivia
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So, after our adventures in Uyuni, we arrived in Arequipa, second biggest town in Peru.

There we went on a three day tour to trek in the second deepest canyon in te world.
We started by a long 5 hours bus ride to reach a village called Cabanaconde situated at the top of the canyon.

After lunch, we started the trek to reach the bottom of the canyon. It took us about three hours and it was quite hard as the trail is very dusty and full of stones and going down is a little hard on the knees...

After a nice night of sleep, we leave on the second day for 2 hours of going down again a bit further in the valley. On the way we see a beautiful waterfall!!

We finally arrive to the bottom into a amazing oasis of green trees and palmtrees with swimming pool, hammocks!!! well, a little paradise!

BUT!!! WE HAD TO GO BACK UP!!! And that was the very hard part!!! 2h40 min (which is quite good!!) of going only up, without stops almost... on that rocky dusty trail!!
But we did it, and we are proud!

After a deserved night of sleep, we wake up early the next morning to take a bus to go to the Cruz del Condor. But after waiting almost two hours, the condors are very shy and we

We go back on the bus for a town called Chivay to soak in Hot Springs!!! A bit of a massage for the muscles!!

Back to Arequipa after a last bus ride, we enjoy a drink with the group....

But now we are looking forward to our next destination: MEXICO!!

Lots of kisses

Agnes and Ola

We are now in Merrico (you pronounce it Merrico here and not Mexico!!), discovering all

To see more murals from Diego Rivera, we also visited a convent where the walls are full of it! Very busy this Diego!!

Coming back from the historic town we went to the Bellas Artes building which is absolutely beautiful but which is slowly sinking as it was built a very long time ago on a lake...

For lunch, Jean Marc and Michelle took us to a great restaurant where we ate an excellent fish grilled with spices, a real treat!
And while we waited for the food, Ola did some wake board... Life is cool!!

At night, we got all dressed up and enjoyed the night life of Acapulco in a pretty big night club, where all the drinks are free once you pay the entrance!! So we really enjoyed the bar and the dance floor!!

The next day, we had time to bath a last time and went back to Mexico... Ola and me went to take our next bus for Oaxaca...

That's all for our first steps in the country of the sombrero and the eternal sunshine!

Lots of kisses,

Agnes and Ola

written by  agnesola on October 16, 2007 from Mexico, Mexico
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We spend a lot of time walking around and just relaxing. Things have been a bit quick lately so we enjoy doing nothing. We were suppose to to a mexican cooking course but the lady who did it was booked up during the days we stayed so that did not happen.

There is quite a lot of nice handicraft in this town and so many stores to look in. It is also from this region that Mezcal comes from... done from the same cactus as the one used for the tequila.

There is an ancient site called Monte Alban close to here that we went to see. very impressive but not that big. A lot of big and clear spaces. An ancient ball court where

So thats pretty much it, we wandered, saw ruins, had nice food and drank tea in cafes...
very relaxing indeed...next stop San Cristobal de Las Casas and Palenque!

bisous and puss o kram!

written by  agnesola on October 19, 2007 from Oaxaca, Mexico
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So after the sunshine of Oaxaca, and its busy markets, we arrived in San Cristobal de Las

On of the churches is of a beautiful deep yellow color, and another one has stone carvings and seems to be of a pale rose color.

The speciality in San Cristobal is amber, so we went around to see all the different kinds...

Other info: the area around San Cristobal, which is called Chiapas, is where you can find the zapatistas, which is a group fighting for the rights of indigenous people. This town is also the town they occupied in 1994 to make themselves known at the same time Mexico joined NAFTA. They dont only fight for indigenous rights, but also for womens rights in the indigenous villages and for the people who have lived here and are direct descendants of the old tribes(maya, tzotzil, toltecs and so on) to get some of the land they have the right to! to use Emiliano Zapatas catchfrase "Land and Freedom"! Go EZLN.

Finished with San Cristobal, we went to see one of the most impressive ancient Maya site in the world: the ruins of Palenque.

As soon as we arrived in the town of Palenque, we got attacked by the heat! No need to

And that is what is absolutely amazing about the ruins is that the site is really in the middle of the jungle, surrounded by those tall trees, some of them are red, some have

All the temples, palace and tombs are very well preserved and it is unbelievable to imagine people living there... you can actually go up most of the pyramids (they build everything with plenty of stairs!and when it is so hot, it is HARD!) and admire the view from the top.

You can also go inside some of them and you realise how the rooms were and the corridors, and you also feel how humid and incredibly cold it is in those!!

Anyway, the whole site is absolutely beautiful, we really loved it a lot...

Next step of the trip will be with a little more relax times and adventure... but shhhh... you will know in a few days!!

LOADS OF LOVE TO ALL!!

Agnes and her beautiful amazing love, ola!

written by  agnesola on October 21, 2007 from San Cristobal de Las Casas, Mexico
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Since we are in the caribbeans we are dying to get into the water, sadly enough there is no real beach in town, they are further away, and the most beautiful ones on the other side of the island. So we go to a bar that lies by the sea and they have a pier you can jump from, they nicely let us swim there without paying. the water is turquoise and beautiful...and extremely warm, around 27 degrees...very very nice...

Agnes: "For my side, the training has been a little bit more painful... It is actually quite weird to breathe through the stuff and i freaked out a bit on the first time we went under water...
I had quite a few problems doing some of the exercises but at the end I managed to do it all! But our poor instructor had to take twice the time with me..."

We did some other things during our stay in cozumel, but since we had the diving in the morning, we did not do much else than some snorkeling and walking around in town. The day when our dive got cancelled because of bad weather we rented a scooter and drove around the island, it was windy, but beautiful. We stopped on the other side of the island on a deserted beach and had a swim, it was really like paradise!

We drift with the current at 24 meters deep and it is so much like meditation, it is quiet and beautiful, it is very hard to describe the feeling, it has to be experienced.

So now we are in Chichen Itza(maya ruins) and tomorrow we are heading towards Taxco close to Mexico City.

Lots of salty wet hugs and kisses from Ola and Agnes

written by  agnesola on October 27, 2007 from San Miguel de Cozumel, Mexico
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So after the swimming, diving and all that... we went to visit Chichen Itza.
Chichen Itza is a beautiful site of a Maya Town...

Another very beautiful thing on the site were the "thousand columns". It is a place where is left a lot of columns all in lines ... quite impressive!

After wandering around the site for quite a while, we decided to go to a nearby Cenote called Ikil.

The one we went to, has vegetations going along the walls of the hole and there is black fishes in... you can jump about 4/5 meters on the side of it... which Ola and me enjoyed very much!!

Back to the town, we went for dinner and Ola saw that a young girl left her handbag on the chair when she left... As a gentleman, he ran to give it to her back!!! What a hero!!!

That's all for Chichen Itza!

Kisses

Agnes and Ola

written by  agnesola on October 31, 2007 from Chichen-Itza, Mexico
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Taxco speciales in silver, so there is extremely many silver stores everywhere.
We visited many stores looking at all the jewelry, some quite tacky, but some very beautiful pieces.

The town has another original thing, all the taxis are old wolkswagen beetles, sometimes you can se 15-20 at once in the street.

One of the nights There was alot of kids dressed up in halloween costumes at the square and they where all funny and cute, running around like little pumpkins and ghosts.

Well, not much else to say about this town, it was relaxing, we had lots of nice food
and our room had a balcony perfect for having a drink or two at night..

Alot of kisses from Ola and Agnes!!!

written by  agnesola on November 2, 2007 from Taxco, Mexico
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After some trouble finding our hostel, getting lost in the alleyways (dont worry, nothing dangerous) we arrive tired and weary, unfortunately the hostel was not very nice, so after 2 nights we changed to a supernice, superclean, and supercomfortable hostel...i think it was the best bed we have slept in so far during the trip.

We spent our first 2 days doing not much sightseeing, going to the indian embassy(closed) and the vietnamese embassy to check what we should do for our visas to go there. We are getting them later is the simple answer...

Anyway, We booked a tour to go and see the great wall of China. You can see it at many places but where we decided to see it was called Simatai. It is about 4 hours from Beijing, so we leave very early in the morning.

When we arrive we can see the wall from far, and it is making it's way up a mountain like a snake. The place we have decided to see the wall at is the steepest part so we have some climbing to do...

The Wall starts with some stairs, and it is around 2-3 kilometers to the top. We are

Finally at the top, we only had a few minutes to stay and look at the view because we had to go down to catch the bus back to Beijing...But we really enjoyed it and it was well worth the hard climb up!

Next day, we had planned to look at The forbidden city and Maos Mausoleum, but the mausoleum was closed so we went to the Forbidden city and a taoist temple after that.

Before going into the Forbidden city we went to look at Tianamen Square, the worlds

the Forbidden city is big, very big. Truly a city within a city and it is easy to get lost in

After the forbidden city we hurried to see a taoist temple before it closed, it is still working and you see taoist monks walking around, taking care of the temple. It was very nice and calm with incense burning everywhere and different altars for all the different taoist gods. There was also people coming there praying to whatever god they needed help from. It is interesting to see people so devoted and believing so hard in something.

Other than the sightseeing in Beijing we went to look at some markets, ate alot of nice cheap food and just enjoyed walking around. So next stop is shanghai to meet Jeanne and Clemence and enjoy shanghai!

Puss Puss Kram Kram

Ola and Agnes

TRADUCTION !
Nous n’avons pas écrit de blog depuis quelque temps maintenant mais nous avons fait pas mal de choses et avons vu des amis, c’est la raison pour laquelle on vous fait un mix entre Beijing et Shanghai aujourd’hui !

Après avoir eu un peu de mal à trouver notre hôtel, nous sommes arrivés très fatigués et malheureusement l’hôtel n’était pas extraordinaire. Après 2 nuits, nous avons changé pour un hôtel très mignon, très propre et d’un très bon confort… je pense que c’est le meilleur lit dans lequel nous avons dormi depuis le début de notre escapade.
Pas grand chose durant ces deux premiers jours du fait qu’il nous fallait aller à l’embassade indienne (fermée) et l’ambassade du Vietnam pour vérifier ce que nous devions faire pour obtenir nos visas. Nous aurons plus tard, avons-nous obtenu comme simple réponse…
Nous avons tout de même pris une excursion pour la grande muraille de Chine. Nous pouvons la voir de plusieurs endroits mais nous avons décidé de commencer par Simatai. C’est à environ de 4 heures de Beijing donc départ très tôt le matin.
On voit la muraille de très loin et elle serpente très haut dans la montagne. De l’endroit où nous avons décidé de voir la muraille, c’est la partie la plus abrupte donc il nous faut grimper…

Au démarrage, ce sont quelques marches et puis 2-3 kms jusqu’en haut. Nous sommes un peu fatigués après les premières marches et nous réalisons que nous en avons déjà gravi un bon nombre. Plus nous montons, plus nous voyons la muraille s’étendre dans l’autre direction et les montagnes nous environner. C’est une vue splendide, et c’est surprenant de marcher le long de cette muraille. Ce n’est pas une muraille d’un seul tenant mais plusieurs murailles jointes les unes aux autres il y a environ 2000 ans. Des murs séparés ont été construits au temps de royaumes indépendants, et quand la Chine a été unifiée sous l’empereur Oin Shi Huang, c’est devenu une muraille d’un seul tenant…
Arrivés au sommet, nous n’avons eu que quelques minutes pour admirer la vue car il nous fallait déjà redescendre pour attraper le bus de retour pour Beijing… nous avons vraiment beaucoup aimé, mais quelle montée !

Le jour suivant, nous avions décidé d’aller dans la Cité Interdite et au Mausolée de Mao qui était fermé. Nous sommes donc allés à la Cité Interdite puis dans un temple taoiste. Avant de nous rendre à la Cité Interdite, nous nous sommes arrêtés à la Place Tianamen, la place la plus grande du monde (difficile de croire qu’il s’agit d’une grande place privée…). C’est une place immense, bordée de drapeaux rouges et de monuments. C’est là aussi que se trouve le mausolée de Mao.
La Cité Interdite est grande, très grande ; une ville dans la ville et il est facile de s’y perdre. On y trouve des reliques des empereurs, des armes anciennes, des costumes, des poteries, etc. et bien sûr, les bâtiments et les jardins. Ce qui m’a le plus impressionné, ce sont les jardins, très beaux avec des pierres de formes différentes, des arbres. On peut voir à certains endroits comment ils vivaient. C’était une vie de luxe et de fastes. Les empereurs et leur famille ne quittaient que rarement la Cité Interdite…

Après la Cité Interdite, nous nous sommes dépêchés d’aller voir le temple taoiste avant qu’il ne ferme. Il est encore en activité et on peut voir des moines taoistes qui marchent autour du temple et veillent dessus. C’était très agréable et calme avec l’encens qui brûle un peu partout et différents autels pour tous les différents dieux taoîstes. Il y avait aussi des gens qui viennent pour prier et demander l’aide de Dieu. C’ est intéressant de voir des gens si dévots et croyant si fort en quelque chose.

Outre la découverte de Beijing, nous nous sommes promenés dans quelques marchés, avons mangé de la bonne nourriture bon marché. La prochaine étape, c’est Shanghai pour y retrouver Jeanne et Clémence !

written by  agnesola on November 18, 2007 from Beijing, China
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Alright! After wandering aroung Beijing for quite a while and seeing the Great Wall...,
we took a train fro Shanghai. We were supposed to arrive in Shanghai only a few days later but I got a little sick... so we decided to hurry to Shanghai!! And also it was a good occasion to surprise my friend Jeanne who was in Shanghai to visit her sister Clemence!!

We have walked quite a lot in Shanghai, to see the different areas: the French and English concessions, the shopping streets and the markets...
We walked along the Bund, where you can see old buildings of Shanghai on one side and on the other side, across the sea, you can see some of the most amazing and futurists buildings.

After the old town, we had to discover the new one... and in terms of new stuff, chinese are quite good!! Big TV screens everywhere, amazingly tall buildings, lights all over the place... the streets rivalise with creativity and modernism!

After a few days in Shanghai, Clemence took us out of the BIIIGG town and took us to a

Back in Shanghai, we had only a little time before going to a "beaujolais nouveau" party, which anywhere in the world has to be celebrated!! aaahh it is good to be French!!

Unfortunately the trip was coming to an end for Jeanne and Julie. We stayed another day and a half with Clemence, who took us to see more of the town. We enjoyed a bit more of Shanghai by night, and left the day after..

We are now in Xian... after a 18 hours trip on hardsleepers in the train... (quite an experience!!)

That's all Folks!!

By the way, sorry for the lack of news for a few days... So you get two bog at once !!!! cccoooooooolll!!

kisses

Agnes and Ola

written by  agnesola on November 19, 2007 from Shanghai, China
from the travel blog: Baby and Baby's around the world travel...
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