çin gülleri

travel cancelled

zeynep — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:46:50 +0000

it was really sad to see that visas in our passports and not being able to go to china.but nothing could be done as we cancelled the trip out of health issues. so we hoperfully will go on with this blog when we manage to get to china at some date totally unknown at least for now.
so till then ha!

visa,.. next Friday!

gunisigi — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 07:26:05 +0000

Yesterday visa guy said that our visas are not ready this week due to the situations in China. They gave visas for urgent ones, probably next friday we can get it! Cross ur fingers!

oops..

gunisigi — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:42:45 +0000

Today i looked to the lonely planet web site, china section and i saw this alert:

Travel Alert: Serious rioting has broken out in Xīnjiāng’s capital Ürümqi, with unrest also reported in Kashgar. Travellers are advised to exercise extreme caution and avoid any demonstrations. Check the BBC for news updates or the Thorn Tree for advice from other travellers.

Actually, we are a little bit anxious about our visa, if we can get it or not.. or if it’s a good decision to go in China in these days as we are turkish..

we are living in a world which is said that “progress”, but today i was thinking that the half of the world is living in poverty, in war, fighting, being killed for their ethnicity … nothing new though, it’s old known story of men ..

gunisigi — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:01:31 +0000

While we are planning our trip the violence in Xinjiang region is rising..

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/09/china-uighur-han-violence-urumqi

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jul/08/china-protest-uighur-deaths

route version silk road:what if we try to see kashgar also?

zeynep — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:32:20 +0000

the previous route breaks from lanzhou and a-six-day kashgar part is added. more expensive and tiring we thought. it doesn’t seem quiet safe either especially after what happened to uyghur turks in ürümqi.

applied for the visa finally!

zeynep — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:12:20 +0000

so today we met the visa-guy finally. as china doesn’t accept individual applications, we found an agency, toprak turizm. as i learned from a friend (nese) chinese consulate is far in sariyer and there used to be a lot of waiting. so it is not too bad that we each had to pay 25$ more(a total of 100$) and hopefully get all our stuff done by next wednesday.

travel china-revised edition

zeynep — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:18:56 +0000

We decided to pay 50 euros more and buy our return ticket from Hong Kong. So now we do not have to take a 41-hour train trip from Guilin up to Beijing .The round trip(istanbul-beijing,hong kong-istanbul) will coast app. 450 euros.

FIRST SHOCK: “CHINA IS BIGGGG!” ILK DUMUR DIYORUZ KISACA!

zeynep — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:55:17 +0000

after 8 hours of working on the travel plan, we understood that you cannot just go to china and make a cross country trip in 20 days seeing everything you wanna to see..this is the first sketch of the trip plan.

continuous overnight trains on the cheapest hard seat..36-hour-trains..18 hour trains..41 hour trains..

CHINESE CARAVAN nam-ı diğer Çin Gülleri diyelim;)

zeynep — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:17:38 +0000

This is to document our(us?-karavan ahalisi- birge,irem,zeynep)long-expected China trip. Haydi hayırlısı;)