...even the very long and intersting ones. I am home earlier than I have initially planned, the only country I really d'like to visit, but wasn't possible this time is Kazakhstan, but I hope I will do that some ohter time. When I think that I havent planned alot in advance, I could be pretty happy about the journey. There were some...
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...
Wat's are Temples, mostly buddhistic, and there are plenty of them, I have my little guidy with me all the time, and in this guide are so many Wat's that you can los weeks in them, but already today I found two Wats which are not mentioned (or I havent found them in the crowd), even though one of those Tempels...
And again due to recent events I want to tell you that I am sitting in an Internet-café in the Park Street in Kolkata. There was a thread about a bomb blast today, in this street, but I didnt know that untill a TV Team asked me what I am thinking about it. Well I would have been in bed at the time...
If you are india, you have to visit the Taj Mahal, its like the Eiffeltower and Paris or Australia and the Eyers Rock. The entry fees are quite high in comparison to other things in India, especially since India does a heavy dual pricing. (Indians (almost) always pay less) I had a guide which told me about the history and and...
Now some happier news, to be precise: a tourist attraction. I have been in Delhi for quite some time, and it was a great time there, and I even had to change my train ticket twice, becuase I "just" drove to the himalya for a short trip. If I say short trip, I mean 600km and 10hours driving in a car,...
Since yesterday 15o'clock (IST) there is an increase police presence on Indias Street. One hour after the bomb explosions in Bangalore ( Blog from Bangalore ) the changes on the streets were already visible in all the large cities. Trainstations and public places had a sharp increase of security measures, they seemed like forts. There is quite some police in the...