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The hotels, such as this one in Yangshuo, were usually top-notch, with pools, exercise rooms, robes & slippers, TV, tea & coffee, etc. $48/night!!
Chinese will eat anything. We tried frog, were willing to try snake blood wine and maybe even bamboo rat, but definitely drew the line at "diced dog" and "bull and boar genitals":
But for the most part, we were fed very well with normal...or so we think...food. This is lunch!:
Some of us munched on fresh-grilled sparrow shish kebab. 25 cents a stick..
The oft-talked about, dreaded pit-toilet. This one is the cleanest we've seen. Don't forget to bring toilet paper. I would have paid good money for some handrails.
You might be able to get a job as a "sign-wording-checker-specialist" in China. 95% of permanent, English signs didn't seem to quite make sense:
The 7 of us got our very own bus. Luxurious! In the right picture, every car is driving towards us. The driver is trying to plow thru. Believe it or not, this is our side of the 4-lane road...
Our last stop in China was a quick layover in Hong Kong.
This is the Che Lin nunnery, made of lots of nice wood:
The Hong Kong subway system kicks butt! Your ticket is a plastic card that you just wave near the entrance gate and it lets you through and tells you how much you have left in your account. It works for the subways, buses, star ferry, and funiculars that go up the Peak. The subway trains have active subway maps that show you where you are and where you are going. ...though we still need to figure out where to walk to:
The Star Ferry takes you to the island of Hong Kong from the mainland.
They like lighted signs in Hong Kong:
