A list

This will probably be a little long, so you don't have to read it all.

• China's guide to driving a bus:
  1. Always honk your horn. the more the better. the louder the better. crazy, long, peace-disturbing horns are recommended.
  2. there is no point learning any more rules. there just aren't any. just drive like a madman, and don't forget to horn.
  3. If you won't get there first - you won't get there at all! this is why you have to bypass every single vehicle you see, even if it's in a middle of a totally dark tunnel.
• China's guide to building a Toilet:
  1. Build an avarege size room.
  2. dig a narrow long hole in the ground
  3. congradulations, you're done!!!!
• on the way to JiuZhaiGou park and back, we saw many sights, many people from the kind that we've never seen before. Tiny villages spreaded all over the mountains. Rice terraces and corn fields cover the land. Their lives are so simple, that we can't even understand it from our western point of view. because of this lack of mental capability we sometimes mistake it to be a pittyful life, a life of poverty, despair and want. But it's not necessarily so. from their point of view, maybe, their lives are complete. they have what they wnat. they supply their own needs of food, clothing and shelter. they have their friends. they really don't need much more.
• China's guide for riding a bus:
  1. spit anywhere you want.
  2. you can pee in the trash can.
  3. please vomit all over the place, please. oh, and there's no need to clean up after you.
• The more we go south things are changing. the people become more simple, more rough. the dialect changes, so Nirit says, and the views, too. High mountains with their heads in the sky, vast valleys covered with rice fields. It looks like nothing have changed in the last couple of centuries. The people still wear their straw hats, and carry their straw-baskets filled with corn or rice or whatever it is they grow. They walk miles and miles till the next town to sell their crop. they don't use heavy machinery but rather the same methods their great grand-fathers used. they still wear Mao suits and Mao hats that looks like they were taken out of the seventies. sometimes it looks as if time has forgotten these people, and they don't seem to bother about it.

We arrived to Lijiang, a small town in the southern Yunnan county. the food is still spicy, but good. It's a little bit difficult for our stomachs, but we'll manage. We'll be here for a couple of days and then go on doing the Tiger Leaping Gorge Trek for a little while. We are glad to leave the big filthy cities and move to small villages of colorful people.