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Thread: Travel companion request -> Autumn 2011 trip
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[quote=THE_GREEN_MARTIAN,428018]Köln, Germany, 07/05/2011, @ MONICAYR2005: Hello Monica (?), thanks for your reply! ;-) To answer your message, I can tell you that I have been travelling around China every year since 2004. Every time I go to different places, some new, some already known... I always like to discover new things, combined with places I already visited in the past but which I like very much... And I can also say that I mostly go to the North and the West of China (Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Ningxia and Xinjiang...), and that's mostly because of the weather and the light for photography. You have to be very lucky to be able to see blue skies and crisp, clean air in the southern provinces, and the high humidity in the south is also something I'm not used to... :-) I can't say that I don't like the south though, on the contrary! I have very fond memories of my visits to Guangxi, Guizhou and Sichuan, and I have also been to Hong Kong several times already... :-) But I have a "weak spot" for the Northwest, I can't help it... ;-) Haha... Gansu and Inner Mongolia are my absolute favorites... But anyway, you don't need to be afraid of those places, I find the people and the general atmosphere there very nice! :-) For example, I have never ever been overcharged in Gansu, and I visited that province six times already! :-) On the other hand, if you step out of the train in - let's say - Zhengzhou and try to take a taxi as a foreigner, you can be pretty sure that they will try to cheat you in one way or another... ;-) also, there are not so many people in Gansu... I remember sitting at a table in the shadow of a row of trees on the pavement in the main street of Jiayuguan, having dinner there! ;-) Blue sky, sunny weather, some wind, and the sight of the snow capped Qilian mountains in the distance! And very few people or traffic noice... Really nice! :-) Well, I of course don't know whether you'll be able to take a vacation this autumn, that's up to you to decide, but we can of course stay in contact, that goes without saying! As a matter of fact there are some friends of me living in Hong Kong, and I might visit them this autumn or this winter, and if you want we can meet anyway. I think that would be nice! :-) By the way, you said you were much older than me, but I saw that the difference is only two years (I'm from 1979), so I consider you as young, don't worry... ;-) If I don't, it would mean that I should consider myself as "old" too, which is a frightening idea! :-D Hahaha... ;-) In my profile you can see my email address, so feel free to send me an email! Best regards, Joeri Vanvaerenbergh[/quote]
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