Kunming is the capital of the Yunnan province- now after being in "small towns" with populations of 1,000,000 people we arrived here. Sigh. According to the lonely planet, there were 6,800,000 people in 2002- so I guess I had just arrived to Israel. In one city. Nifty! Now that's nuts.
Anyway, the way here was fun...another 10 hours sleeping bus....and we got here at 5:00, so we got another one hour of sleep on the bus, and at 6:00 the driver woke everyone up and we had to get out.
We are staying in a cool youth hostel called "the Hump"- nothing to do we the stupid Black Eyed peas song.
Today I decided to go to a hospital because I have been having a really bad stomach ache for the past few days. Oy, the shame. I got to the hospital, was escorted to a room with a nurse and doctor, of course neither of them speak any English, they put me on the phone with an English speaking person, god knows who, and then just shoved medications in my hand and let me go. I was frustrated as hell, and later decided to go to a second hospital. Thank god there was a- slightly-English-speaking doctor and he actually examined me-crazy! So now I have to take antibiotics and I am way less frustrated with the Chinese people. And I have to say that Soroka looks like a very peaceful place compared to the Chinese hospital.
Something else that is going on is that I have decided not to continue with Gil to Guanxi province, so I will be staying here for a few days until I'm better and then go to Beijing, stay there for a few days and then I say goodbye to China!
so this is it...I guess. Check out the China photo album, I'm adding the latest photos and signs to it.
Anyway, the way here was fun...another 10 hours sleeping bus....and we got here at 5:00, so we got another one hour of sleep on the bus, and at 6:00 the driver woke everyone up and we had to get out.
We are staying in a cool youth hostel called "the Hump"- nothing to do we the stupid Black Eyed peas song.
Today I decided to go to a hospital because I have been having a really bad stomach ache for the past few days. Oy, the shame. I got to the hospital, was escorted to a room with a nurse and doctor, of course neither of them speak any English, they put me on the phone with an English speaking person, god knows who, and then just shoved medications in my hand and let me go. I was frustrated as hell, and later decided to go to a second hospital. Thank god there was a- slightly-English-speaking doctor and he actually examined me-crazy! So now I have to take antibiotics and I am way less frustrated with the Chinese people. And I have to say that Soroka looks like a very peaceful place compared to the Chinese hospital.
Something else that is going on is that I have decided not to continue with Gil to Guanxi province, so I will be staying here for a few days until I'm better and then go to Beijing, stay there for a few days and then I say goodbye to China!
so this is it...I guess. Check out the China photo album, I'm adding the latest photos and signs to it.
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