UPDATE: arrived Nanning – 28 hours in transit:

4am Canada …
car to Nanaimo
ferry to Vancouver
bus & train to YVR airport
flight to Guangzhou
flight to Nanning
courtesy car to official hotel
taxi to my hostel
… midnight China time

I’m staying at the Green Forest hostel. Facebook and twitter are blocked but my websites are working.

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I fly today out of Vancouver.  Arrive Nanning Sept 25th for the World Gymnastics Championships.

Nanning is known as the “Green City” because of its abundance of lush tropical foliage. …

Nanning has a warm, monsoon-influenced humid subtropical climate …

Nanning is close to scenic Guilin, with its world famous hillscape, northern and western Guangxi and its minority villages …

I’ll exit by train to Vietnam en route to Nepal. Hiking in both those nations.

Here’s my post just prior to my 1st trip to China Aug. 1998 – have you eaten?