After my exciting stay in china, its now time to think of the way back home, I'll take the Train to Moskau, in contrast du my earlier plans from east to west. As I already mentioned, I got all my visa on time, even though I wasted plenty of time with waiting.
Did you know that the 5 mascots of the Olympic games are called BeiBei JingJing HuanHuan YingYing and NiNi? You see a connection between the names and the subject of this post? Yes its a word-play, Chinese love word-plays, and they have plenty of them. Thats why the love the number 8 because its sounds like wealth and hate number 4...
My website isn't reachable from China at the moment with my normal DNS entry, http://apophis.ch, the compleete DNS entry with all subdomains is blocked at the moment, but the IP is still reachable as is my backup domain entry. The site is therefore still reachable as http://apophis.eu.
Finally, after 21 hours in a train, I finally can "immigrate" to mainland China... I travelled with two elder women from shanghai and a nice guy from italy who is living in Shanghai, that way the journey seemed not that long. Even sleeping in the train was lovely, and I really hope that the transsibirian train is at least half as...
No I am already in Hong-Kong, and almost gone again to the next destination... The island of Hong Kong and even more the rest of the territory is very green. Skyskrapers which grow almost into the cloads are everywhere, the skyline of Hong Kong is absolutly astonishing. But only a few hundret Meters away from the centre, you are already...