Thursday, May 25, 2006

CHINA'S ISSUES

No Lonely Planet guide to China
After searching around pretty much every bookshop in China (both national and international books), the Lonely Planet guide was nowhere to be found. We reached another shop and thought we would ask one last time. To our surprise we find out that China has a problem with the Lonely Planet guide to China hence they banned it. Nice one…cheers to China for stuffing up our holiday. However, lucky for us one of our tour pickup's was from a Youth Hostel and we spotted the L.Planet to China neatly displayed in their bookshelf. We've never been more pleased to see the guide.. Really felt lost without it here!

No Blogging! Or google!
Still raw from finding out that China doesn't like our reading material, we now discover that what is written is a problem also. We had problems viweing our blog here, no matter which hotel we went to. They even had us believing that we had screwed up our coding somewhere. It wasn’t till 1 of our praiseworthy bloggers informed us our blog was viewable, they're simply banned in China. Tough deal guys.!

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