On this Wednesday morning, which is the day of our departure for GUILIN, I open the curtains.
And behold: all of a sudden, the sun shines over Peking! It seems like the air is clear. The view from the hotel Sheraton “THE BIG WALL” bedroom is totally different from the last days. As a farewell to me, there is sun and clear skies.
Today is a day of travels. In the morning, we will go to the airport, Terminal 3. It goes without saying that this airport is very impressive.
Flying Air China, we arrive at GUILIN – which is situated 1,500 kilometres to the south – after about three hours of flight at roughly 15:30 h. Our final destination is YANGSHUO.
It is a dream of a destination. I can see many high cone-shaped mountains, sitting in a huge, flat area, looking like someone told them to form a line. You get the impression that a dragon might be hidden behind every one of those mountains. Since we are in the country of dragons, this is hardly a surprise, is it? …
And the climate is warm and agreeably tropical – the only other place I know where it is like this is Africa. This is the ideal region to recuperate. A great contrast to Peking – and still part of a “very well-tended China”.
Recuperation is the word: consequently we decide to call it a leisurely day today. Instead of a travel report, you just get a few comments on the internet in China.
Basically, you get access to the internet everywhere – and at a very low cost at that. The supply of the email client with Imap and/or Exchange on my Airbook is also excellent. The same is true for the access to most WEB addresses. My VPN access, too, functions most of the time – except some times. I have no idea why.
The search engines are also ok.
Social media pages, such as Twitter and FB, however, are among the most prominent pages I cannot directly access. The same is true for Youtube. VPN is the only thing that helps here. Strangely enough, this is also true for some very harmless pages, such as “alle deutschen Sprichworte”.
Now I came up with the following solution to the problem: I keep switching between “normal“ internet access (for my email client and the IF blog pages I can access) and VPN (for Social Media and inaccessible pages).
To this end, I collect all WEB pages I can directly access on a browser (Mozilla). On Chrome, I have all pages I can only access through VPN. In this manner, I can manage quite well.
But the real problem is not technology. The real problem is time. We are very busy, the days are full of important and often beautiful encounters Returning to the hotel late at night, I no longer feel like logging into the internet. And on the next morning, we also always get up early, preparing for our next adventure…
For instance tomorrow – we will go on a riverboat on the “Li-River” at 8 o’clock.
Consequently, there is no time to really process all these many impressions and stimulations, let alone report them.
RMD
(Translated by EG)
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