Autor Archiv: Mario
Stations #25
Shanghai Railway Station
Home on the go
This bakery in Yangshuo seems to have understood it: Home is to be with you.
Die größten Radwege, die gemütlichsten Busse, die schnellsten Züge
In China leben rund 1,4 Milliarden Menschen, also ungefähr 17 mal so viele wie in Deutschland oder 180 mal so viele wie in der Schweiz. Die Radwege in Peking sind allein in eine Richtung so breit wie eine durchschnittliche deutsche Fußgängerzone. Neben Horden anderer Zweiräder (tagsüber) oder in Einsamkeit (im richtigen Stadtteil abends) mit dem … Weiterlesen
Booking Chinese Trains for Dummies
China Railways has a pretty good website, the only problem: it is only available in Chinese. After some of our frustrations with Chinese trains like standing tickets, destinations booked out days in advance etc, I got my head around checking Chinese trains on the official website myself (with some help from a friendly Chinese person … Weiterlesen
Stations #24
Guilin
Electronics from the Golden Computer Arcade
There are a lot of things you can take if you leave for a year, but we left with about 12 to 13 kg in each of our backbacks. We don’t miss much and there are still a few items we would not have needed. I wanted to dedicate a few posts to some of … Weiterlesen
More travel photos
We got some new equipment in Hong Kong (more later) and we caught up sorting through our photos, only keeping the better ones and uploading them to flickr. We’ve spent quite a couple of nights with the photos and thanks to the Internet connection of our lovely host Sisi in Hong Kong we got most … Weiterlesen
Pancakes Hong Kong Style
Sonntagsfrühstück mit (von Julia) selbstgemachten Pfannkuchen und dragon fruit.
Stations #23
Taikoo Metro Station, Hong Kong (We took the subway from Shenzen into Hong Kong)
Stations #22
Lijiang
Stations #21
Kunming
The Unknown City of 32 Million
It’s possibly the municipality with the most inhabitants worldwide and still hardly anybody in ‚the West‘ will have heard about it: Chongqing. There is no denying Chinese could judge this ignorance as Western arrogance. Before talking to the photographer Tim in Beijing, who declared Chongqing to be his favorite city in China, I didn’t know … Weiterlesen
Stations #20
Chongqing (pronounced something like Chong-tshing)
Stations #19
Chengdu railway station, Sichuan province
Stations #18
Xining West (a temporary station built only for 3 years, while they rebuild the main one), Qinghai province
Stations #17
Xian, Shaanxi province
Große Mauer im Nebel
Das schönste Stück der Transsib wären die letzten 300km nach Peking, durch beeindruckendes Gebirge sowie entlang und durch die Chinesische Mauer, hieß es. Wegen ausgebuchter Direktzüge hatten wir extra Zwischenstop in Jining gemacht um tagsüber und mit dem Zug den besten Blick zu haben. Weiss war allerdings die dominierende Farbe beim Blick aus dem Zugfenster … Weiterlesen
Stations #16
Beijing West Railway Station
Zuhause in Peking
Als wir in Deutschland losfuhren, war Peking immer unser erstes großes Ziel gewesen. Mein Studienfreund Olivier arbeitet dort seit mehreren Jahren und hatte uns immer eingeladen. Je ungewaschener unsere Sachen (und wir) wurden, je leerer die Akkus von Kamera und Telefon und je länger wir keine Emails lesen konnten, desto mehr freuten wir uns darauf, … Weiterlesen
Stations #15
Beijing North Station, 2 months after leaving by train from Hergatz (Thanks Olivier for picking us up and taking the photo!)
Horchog, horses and hot springs or 2 weeks in the Mongolian countryside
Do you want to pay for an overpriced package tour or hire a cheap driver that doesn’t understand a single word of English? Well, together with the two Nicos from France, that we had met on the train, we formed our own group and finally opted for the latter. Bogie (how the friendly lady from … Weiterlesen
Stations #14
Back in Ulaanbaatar after two weeks through the countryside!
Stations #12-13
Naushki, Russia and 6 hours later the 20 km distant Sukhbaatar, Mongolia
Stations #11
Irkutsk, Eastern Siberia
