As I predicted yesterday, I decided to take a bus to Nanning tomorrow. As Wuzhou is an intersting little town I decided to stay here for a second night and see a little bit around. Wuzhou is about 4000 years old town and still an important inland harbour town as it is located in the joining of two big rivers. It has even been the Capital of Guangdong and Guangxi provinces in the past. The city is famous for its several arcade buildings that were built late 19th ...

I am finally at a computer and the blog plaform is on (Yesterday I was at a computer too, but Kilroy blogs decided to be down while I was up). So - I have been cycling now for six days since Shenzhen and three days since Guangzhou. During last three days I progressed about 280 km. As the continuous urban area ended at about 50 km from Guangzhou I have been enjoying the scenery of rice fields, bamboos, bananas and many other fruits, vegetables and trees. The rout...

210 km cycling behind. I crossed Pearl River in Guangzhou today. Hotel has WiFi, so I use my mobile. (Very difficult to write as for some reason the mobile wants to write all Capital letters to the blog)

This is my last night here in Shenzhen. Tomorrow morning I will start my bicycle ride hopefully quite early to avoid the noon heat. I do not know where I will stay next night but it will be somehere in the outskirts of Guangzhou. I have been quite satisfied with my stay here, (Shenzhen and the hotel) so I have to force myself to leave towards unknown. The afternoon heat is worrying me a bit. Before this entry I added some new pictures from Shenzhen. As I have t...

Today I managed to buy a bicycle. It is not as good and not as big as I had hoped for but "when in Rome do like Romans do". It appears that most Chinese drive all too small bicycles, so I do the same. The bike was cheaper than I had budgeted so I might even leave it in Southeast-Asia when I (propably) fly to India some time next year. I got translation help from a university student selling Motorola phones in a shop. He was very delighted to be able to ...