a nomad’s travel clutter.

After a night’s sleep on the fast train from Shangha to Beijing including card games and lots of snacks, we arrived 7:00 in the morning to the capital of China. Our Downtown Backpacker’s Hostel even included pick-up in their room price (60RMB) so everything was so simple. A guy met us at the station and drove us to the hostel, where we are now. The people in our room haven’t left yet, they are very slow… so we decided to make use of our time. We took a walk in the neighbourhood, pretty small hutongs. Beijing has a whole different atmosphere, compared to Shanghai, there are like no skyscrapers. We’ve left the futuristic “Gotham City” (we saw Batman Begins yesterday in an Imax theatre) and come to the capital that tries to preserve the old. Anyway, now for the pictures that haven’t been up since a long time.

Back in Hangzhou, singing kareoke. Very concentrated.

The first day in Huangshan, before we climbed the mountain. We went rafting!

This is a-top of the mountain by some peak (it has a famous name that we’ve forgotten now because there was so many of them).

From the top we took cable car down a spring where we took a dive. No, just joking. We just posed for the tourists.

The next morning in Huangshan we woke up 3 to see sunrise. This is when it was dark and FOGGY!

Then it got brighter, but the winds were still howling. Here almost blowing Janie away…

We held on though and climbed and climbed. Here we climbed the “199 steps to find your love”.

From 1864m we went down all the way to the ground, passing these steep parts.

And before we know it we’re by the bund (or waitan in chinese) in Shanghai. Here you can see the Pearl Tower and also Jinmao Tower tallest on the right where we went to for the highest bar in Asia (87th floor).

We did some shopping in Yuyuan Bazaar.

And the big moment of meeting EDISON!! (He’s the guy on the left)

Finally we are now sitting in this building. The cozy little hutong hostel that is every backpackers dream. Well, at least all the thanks and praising scribbles covering the walls says so. We’ll see…

Tata for now, we’ll try to update more now that we have such good access.

P.S. Clara, we see that you might have felt a bit lost in the world there for a while writing that e-mail. But good news is it’s not what you think. The mail must have disappeared somehow. A simple explanation to a cryptic riddle. We actually like you very much (and same that to all that follows our trip and supports us) and miss you loads. Not long now till we’re back with you in Sweden.

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