China & Hong Kong

The Southorn Playground, how two worlds merge On a sunny afternoon I decided to search for a spot to enjoy the good weather in Hong Kong. After the cold in Russia, Mongolia and partly China and my troublesome month I decided trying to stay in one place for a longer time. A place more westernized and […]

I arrived in the Inner Mongolia Province of China. Apparently there are beautiful green grasslands in summer, but from what I could see in the train, everything was rather brown/grey and dry now. A dry countryside with big, smoggy cities… Hohhot was one of them and my first stop in China. There is not much […]

In my first week in China, I got confronted with Chinese bureaucracy. If you are Chinese (and speak Chinese), life can be really easy and convenient. With a Chinese bank account you can pay by scanning a QR-code in every shop, street food stand or even give money to a beggar. Online shopping is done […]

During my first days in China, I stayed with a college teacher in Hohhot, the capital of Inner Mongolia province. He was a friend of a friend of my parents friend (can you still follow?). Except for the fact that it was really interesting to experience life in a Chinese family, I learned a lot […]

Coming from Mongolia, China looked much more organised. Taxi’s looked again like taxi’s, the streets were wider, cleaner and there were more traffic lights, or at least, people would use them properly. At the same time, it also looked much more chaotic. I think it is partly the language with all the symbols that makes […]