The end of a chinese adventure

So I can officially access my blog again after quite a few weeks of chinese censorship, woohoo! China was an interesting country to travel, as my friend described it--it was much more westernized than one would expect, but you still feel quite alienated. In the past few weeks, the highlights were:

--Getting "married" in a culture show in Longjii. I was selected with a guy in the group and I had to get on his back and he had to run to break out of a circle of people. Afterwards, we were given cups of rice wine to down in different romantic positions. Probably the cheapest wedding I'll ever have.

--Biked through rice fields and the countryside in Yangshuo, bumpy on the dirt roads, but just gorgeous!

--Teaching our chinese guide how to flirt. He has now mastered the wink and the head nod. And later got a girl's number!

--Keeping my vegetarianism in the most meat-filled country ever. Even celery seems to soaked in some type of pork grease. I have no clue if some things I ate had meat elements, but I tried my best!

--24 hour train rides on three tier bunk beds. Gotta love the half-naked, drunk men sitting in the aisles.

--Terracotta Warriers

--The Great Wall!! Amazing! We went at 4am one day and had an experience close to a tim burton movie.

--Good ole chinese censorship.

--Being on a rice fields on a mountain top in Longjii with women with the longest hair in the world

--Karaoke in Beijing, quite a drunken night to remember (or forget depending on your experience)

Anyways, there was such an amazing amount to experience in China, I'm so glad to have been able to see some of it!


Here are a ridiculous amount of photos:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2086032&l=ffe66&id=1700835
Great Wall
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2086044&l=83501&id=1700835
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2086046&l=0321b&id=1700835

Beijing
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2086043&l=b1bd7&id=1700835
Hong Kong
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2086028&l=15ffe&id=1700835

Yangshuo
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2085320&l=fc340&id=1700835