Kinaturen 2007

Saa er der endnu engang kommet flere billeder til – denne gang har vi faaet smidt flere billeder op fra Moskva (Det er vist primaert flere billeder fra den Herrens aften, hvor vi alle sammen mistede vores haar..)  Jeg tror der er bred enighed om, at vi alle sammen fralaegger os ethvert ansvar for, hvad der sker paa de billeder – men kanske en naerstudering af dem kan redegoere for, hvorfor der dagen efter sad en seddel med “please call the reception on this number” i vores kortlaeser i doeren. Dette gjorde vi vist ikke, da vi alligevel tjekkede ud samme dag og modtog vores boede paa 300rubler. Vi ved den dag i dag stadig ikke, hvad det var for, men med et saa ubetydeligt beloeb kan man naesten ikke tillade sig at brokke sig over det.

 Der er ogsaa kommet et par billeder op fra Bei Jing. Vi satser paa at blive up to date med billederne i loebet af de naeste par dage, saa vi igen kan laegge billeder op, der passer til de indlaeg, vi skriver.

 Saa opsummering: Nye billeder fra Moskva, nye billeder fra Bei Jing og forvent opdateringer i galleriet naermest dagligt de naeste par dage, til vi er igennem alt det, vi mangler.

 Hilsener herfra！ O_o, ;_; og ^_^

 Le fire i Le Kina

Edit: billeder fra Bei Jing

Edit d. 3: Saa er der lagt 100 flere billeder op fra Bei Jing (heribland de foerste fra Muren).

Edit d.4: Saa er de sidste billeder fra Bei Jing lagt op! Det boer maaske naevnes, at vi jo kommer tilbage til Bei Jing sidst paa turen for at indhente det, vi ikke naaede at se sidst vi var der.

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Good news a coming!:

First, Jesper is up and running, and knocking his head into more door-tops than ever before – the majority of Dun Jack’s family has joined an anti-concussion comitee, establishing a new division to enstate a national decree in which it is mandatory to have a very visible “Please watch your head” sign across China’s doors to help the vertically-challenged.

Yesterday, we audaciously fought through Bei Jing’s chaotic West train-station; someone could have told us this was the worst day and time to have use of the trains in the year, and I would have believed them – all I know is, I’m pro-have-only-one-child campaign now! Luckily, it turned out to be equivalent of quickly ripping off a band-aid; the “pain” was brief and we were rewarded with a luxurious compartment within new trains (that have been made for travelling between Bei Jing and LaSha) – it was all awesome!
This morning, we stepped off our train and onto Xi An soil for the first time. As we found our personal guide; she was quickly, yet effectively, interrogated. Her name is Jennifer, is at least 30, native to Xi An, has a birthmark on the left gastrocnemeus, majored in tourism and English, lives 5 stops with the bus away, and is pretty awesome. Our hotel is located 4 minutes from the center of Xi An (marked by the Bell Tower)and is beside a KFC;across from a Pizza Hut; and using the Bell tower, Pizza Hut, and KFC to create a triangle, McDonalds is on the hypoteneus; it is awesome. We visited the Shang Xi museum, where we got a history lesson of Xi An through viewing relics pre-dynastic and from the dynasties.
We continued to the Wild Goose Pagoda – a 60 meter building of 7 levels. It is surrounded by scenery which is inexplicably awesome. We could not be having more awesomely fun!

If one notices, this post is riddled with the word “awesome” where one would conveniently want some detail and characteristics. Well, heres the real good news – we have found a way to upload all pictures and are currently doing it. Since the internet is very slow, we can not post all the pictures at once – but the site will be reloaded everyday from now on!

In the words of various discredited evangelists:
“Can I get an ‘Amen’?”

[Edit] Pictures from the transiberian railway

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If you are not a firm believer of the term: “Don’t kill the messenger”, and am more fond of Leonides’ approach to bad-news carrying messenger by kicking them into a bottomless well; please do not read the following.

Yet again, I reluctantly inform you that we are trying to get more pictures onto the website; meaning that we haven’t gotten them up yet. This, of course, does not mean that we have stopped taking photos, so as soon as we can drop our technical crutch – you’ll get so many pictures that you’ll achieve the unattainable and grow tired of pictures of us.

Meanwhile, here’s a small snack of what we’ve been up to- which will hopefully convey how busy we’ve been and will give you no other choice, but to shower us with forgiveness for not uploading pictures yet.
We have of course kept ourselves busy with site-seeing. This including the revisit to the Tian An Men – which was Great Success! We even walked through The Forbidden City. It is truly amazing that we can truthfully say; we walked through a city located in the middle of Bei Jing with almost 10,000 rooms, protected by 960x750m of 10m high walls, has been secluded from the rest of the world and exclusive to the royal family for the majority of the past 600 years. (It was actually not exclusive to the royal family; concubines lived there, as well hundreds of eunuch servants – so as to not tempt the women.) So it was also nice to say the penultimate sentence of this paragraph, and then still have fertile male genitalia – except for Anne Mette.

We also spent a whole day at the Great Wall of China. We were specifically at Ba Da Ling, which hosts the highest point of the Great wall. To protect the Chinese from the Huns, the emperors had walls built from east to west China; which was later connected to become a 6700km long defensive entity that doubles as a monument to Chinese history. Science tells us it is an urban myth that the Chinese wall can be seen from space, let alone be the soul man-made structure that can be viewed from out there. If, however, this matter was determined democratically, we would unanimously vote for the Great Wall to be given that title. As we constantly observed and remarked; one could randomly select a spot on the wall which we “conquered”, look in every direction, and still see more of the wall in the distance – it definitely has my vote.

For the past two days, Jesper has been feeling sick to the point where we were convinced he was practicing for the audition of the “Exorcist” remake. So today, we decided to go to a hospital clinic that specializes in bowel disturbances where we, within the hour, received results that he had a parasitic bacteria in his system (which he probably acquired from some food). Part of a fast treatment required him to get a specific anti-biotic in the form of a saline drip stuck into his hand for three-hours. So we got our own room, where half of us retrieved Ipods and books from the hotel (we luckily live very close) along with refreshments (water and McDonald’s[which we also, luckily, live very close to]. Four and a half hours after entering the clinic, we walk out with a healthier Jesper, and a bunch of medicine to make sure he endures that state. The doctor is sure that Jesper will be on his toes and ramming his head into the top of doors before we go to Xi An. According to statistics, it would be anomalistic if neither of us got sick. It is of course not preferable, but we got to experience that part and were all pretty impressed leaving us with the ability to recite – ” Saa har vi gjort det!”

For the next week, we have dedicated ourselves to some hardcore-rest to ensure and achieve an excellent bill of health for when we travel to Xi An, and continue through China. Since we are returning to Bei Jing, we have decided to put off all the tourist activities that we lack till then. For now, we will merely blend in (as well as we can) and just be normal Bei Jing-nites.
Pictures can be anticipated!

Due to certain restrictions of the oriental Internet-cafes, we are currently not able to supply you with your vital daily fix of pictures of us on our exhilarating quest, on (bumpy) rails, to China. Since we know your lives depend on it, all efforts to post pictures are currently at work. The employment of half the Chinese work-force is under consideration (of course for the minimum wage of 2 bowls of rice and a banana a day), though at this very moment Jesper is thinking really hard about doing something about it.

To give y’all a taste of the journey; here’s a quick insight of a selected 3 hours, of our first day on the transsiberian rail. It commences with the meeting and greeting of 3 American marines, a Brit (who has sold all material possessions and on his way to Australia), and of course us. Since the 8 are still in Russia (and the time being only 16:00), our colourful cast goes through the custom introduction fase Russian style – with a shot of vodka. Like a mutated dog who tastes human blood for the first time in a bad horror-movie, their attention is immediately averted to scout how much vodka they collectively have – 8 bottles… It has to be mentioned, that we contributed 4 bottles which was bought with the full intention of the lasting out the whole trip, with the thought of possibly bringing some home. Little did we know a vodka frenzy was in place. The 8 bottles miraculously, yet promptly, disappeared in 3 hours – a feat only challenged by few other legendary Russian introductions (e.g. when Vlad met Olga), and by David Copperfield’s trick of making the Statue of Liberty disappear. It must of course be noted that the “few other legendary Russian introductions” have very little credibility and no record of it actually happening. We hope this is enough of the rail quest for you guys to chew on but in case it isn’t, here is a update of our first days in China.

Against all odds we find ourselves intact (except for our hair) in the capital of China, Bei Jing. We are immediately assaulted by Dun Jack’s family and thrown into a hotel for a much needed bath. Besides being a more than cheap hotel, it is conveniently placed in the vicinity of Dun Jack’s aunt – for the much needed washing of our clothes. After being cleaned and proper groomed, we are almost presentable to Chinese society. This being our first night in Bei Jing, EVER, we decided to eat chinese (even though McD was near by). Dun Jack’s family took us reserved a room for ourselves at an extravagant restaurant for a classic Chinese dinner with Bei Jing’s most known dish – the Bei Jing Duck. Though the 3 white people were quite accomplished at utilizing chopsticks, DJ’s family still managed to find more than several occasions to laugh at them. All feeling ashamed of themselves and slightly fatigued by all the laughing, DJ’s family compensated by picking up the bill and introducing them to some 56% rice-wine.

Our first Entire day in Bei Jing was dedicated to some tourist sites, Tian An Men. With some unfailing irony, Bei Jing decided to rain as we stepped into the bus – for the entire day. We took a weak attempt at visiting Tian An Men but decided that we photograph better when the sun is out and go back tomorrow. Instead, we keenly observed Bei Jing city life from a mall, eating approximately 3 lunches and bought some shoes. DJ’s aunt then treated us to an exclusive spa for the wealthy where we fit right in. An hours luxurious massage was had and we were regenerated. We then decided to try chinese fast-food for dinner and go post some pictures where we found out how we can’t. We have full intentions of returning tomorrow to Tian An Men fully reinforced with newly bought umbrellas and long-sleeves.
But we all hope it doesn’t come to that…

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