Qianling Park monkey drinking from a bottle

Qianling park, a walk in the park!

Qianling park, Guiyang, China. A walk in the park Qianling Mountain Park is a large, mountain filled Wilderness Park filed with trees, temples, mountains, monkeys and a huge lake. It is also my local park and a place I often visit to walk around and enjoy the fresh air and peace that is seemingly impossible to find in an urban environment. Qianling Park is a great place in Guiyang to walk around, show visitors around, view wildlife, play sports and all round enjoy. The park…

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We-Chatting your way to fluency. Learn Chinese the ‘Smart’ way

We-Chat your way to learn Chinese China doesn’t use Facebook and instead has its own set of popular social networking tools. We-Chat is a popular free chatting smart phone app that is used to both share statuses, broadcast mobile photos and Chat on instant messenger, one that almost everyone in the entire country has. We-Chat is a great free app. And also happens to be the main reason that I consider my written Chinese to have developed so quickly.If you want to learn Chinese, it can…

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Shangri la

Yunnan is considered to have three remaining ancient towns. Shangri-La is the northern most and in my opinion is significantly the most beautiful of them. With an altitude of approximately 3500 meters. It is not uncommon to see yaks walking down the street and the town has no shortage of surrounding temples and scenic spots. If you ever get here, I strongly recommend the local food. Untypical of Chinese places they have an abundance of dairy products from fresh yoghurt to yaks butter tea. Most…

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