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I arrived Yangshuo at 5:15 AM. It was still dark and the derty streets I had seen last year were now clean. The only people I sore were the road cleaners and the people trying to sell there hotels. I walked to the river and got some Soya milk and fried sticks on the way. I took pitchers as the sun came up over the li river. |
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I have arrived in Hong Kong finally ofter a month in India it's like coming home for me as I was working here last fall.
I got the bus in to town and I remembered what it was like the first time I arrived in Hong Kong. If there is anything to learn from this: always do new things and you will learn lots.
I was meeting Richy a friend of mine from University and going climbing with him. I met him a day later than planned because we mist each other at our meeting place!
I took him climbing in HK and met some of my old friends who I'm working with next month. We went shopping and climbing for a few days then we got a ferry to Nansha main land china and met my friend Cosmin, who had taken me to climb there last year.
We got there and spent 2 days sport climbing. Meshel from New Zealand was with us and her boy friend Troy. Meshel is Juley’s sister who came with me to Jiu Long (九龙) and Yangshuo (阳朔) last year. They both worked with us in Hong Kong for Asia Pacific Adventure.
Cosmin left us for the next 5 days and we staid in the Village of Ming Jing. Its about 1 hours walk from most of the climbing sites. It is a small village with not much tourist infrastructure. The local people can not speak any English and we can not speak any Chinese! They are very friendly but they have not seen many western people before.
The first day without Cosmin it rained in the morning so we got up late and went slack lining in the local park. We let some of the local children have a go. We also found a nice looking trad line to attempt the next day. |
In March of 2007 I started work for Active Outdoor Pursuits in Newtonmore, Cairngorm National Park. I was living in Aviemore and driving to work in Newtonmore every day. Cairngorm is a grate place to live and work and I liked the Aviemore way of life. However working for Active was not so good and by May I was fed up and ready to move on. The weather contributed to this as after April it rained most of the time as Scotland often does! I herd from an old friend who learned to climb with me when I was 16 years old. We were at college together in 2000 now he lives in Inverness. I gave him a call and we met up a couple of weeks later. He was working for World Challenge in India in a few months time and was going on a Himalayan climbing trip after. He asked me if I wonted to come and I had said know; how could I!? It would cost too much and I had a job till the end of September! Very quickly I changed my mind, I had always wonted to go there, and I did not like my job it was taking up all my time and I was not making much money. I confirmed that I would go as soon as I got confirmation of work in Hong Kong after the trip. So it was me and 2 couples my friend Maca and his girl friend Deb and another couple, Nidge and Lo (I have used nick names as this is an on line diary). |
