Tag: Xi’an
A Taste of Xi’an
by Cinnie on Feb.13, 2010, under China
We totally underestimated Deer Air, because after 2 hours we safely touched ground at Xi’an Airport. To our pleasant surprise we even received lunch on the plane, which was rather tasty. Plus my very friendly Chinese neighbour on the plane gave me his cherry tomatoes, so all and all I’d say it was a very successful flight. 
Oh, almost forgot. Remember Ohad talking about something fishy? Well.. when we retrieved our bags Ohad found out really fast that his bag had been swimming in some lovely fish juice on the plane. OMG, the smell!
Unexpected Couchsurfing Experience #2
by Tsemer on Feb.12, 2010, under China
Our flight company was called “Lucky Air“. This could not have been a good sign. And indeed, the bus complied with the flight company’s name and was excruciatingly slow.
We could clearly see old ladies pushing wheelchairs faster than our bus.
It left at 09:30 instead of 09:10, and we didn’t like that the clock in the bus was 20 minutes early. Hmm.. Was our bus in the time zone GMT+8:20?
Dali, Longer Than Expected
by Cinnie on Feb.10, 2010, under China
Ok, so… remember Ohad writing about me getting a bit ill on top of the Cangshan Mountains? Well, it turned out that it wasn’t just a little bit, and it wasn’t just me as well. The following night and day, both Ohad and I couldn’t really move without running to the toilet, and we spent the day feeling miserable in bed. We actually somehow managed to sleep (on and off) throughout the entire day!!
The days after that we felt a bit better (with some ups and downs), but we still couldn’t hold down any other food than rice with chicken soup (thank you Knorr bouillonblokjes!). We decided to do the clever thing and NOT go up to Lijiang, but to stay longer in Dali instead. Feeling crappy and all, we still counted ourselves lucky to get sick in such a wonderful place as Dali, so we tried not to feel too sorry for ourselves..
