china best of

CHINA - Best Of...

OK so i just got back to my apartment in Thailand from China...What a crazy place...not the "this is interesting" crazy like India, but more of a "Fuck, these people are nuts and i cant get anything done" crazy....still an amazing place though...its just not only does nobody speak english at all, but they dont understand other means of communication like pointing or head nodding....problems with china include very restricted internet access...you cant get any real news...no access to western newspapers or mags, luckily my hotel had bbc but thats only in 5 star hotels...good luck getting that anywhere else

The trip started with a night out in bangkok...first to Mystique which was raided by the police at like midnight...prob didnt pay their bribe for the month or something, then to Bed Supperclub (not super club, but supperclub..dont ask me why) kind of similar to the BED's in miami and nyc...great place....



OK now to China...first stop...BEIJING....had to go here for work, worked my ass off m-f getting out a shipment...






this is wendy, she had a cool keychain that projected the time..hence the red neck






here is one of the packers for the chinese logistics company...he was a funny guy, kept calling me lee zhaolong (bruce lee)



ok so its friday now, done with the shipment...took all of the chinese packers out to dinner...i didnt eat though, i dont eat at places where you cant tell what animal the food came from..and where they have frogs on display right next to the fish that were swimming upside down? they seemed to enjoy it though...




strike a pose...i miss those guys, even though they were such terrible packers and took a 2 hour nap during the middle of the day



OK GREAT WALL TIME... so worked our asses off m-f, then partied hard friday night...expecting a nice chill sat checking out the Great Wall, one of the wonders of the world, but we find out we signed up for a 12km hike up the hardest part of the wall, 28 towers, up...then down..then up...then down...fuck



OK the "graet wall" is that way, but which way to the great wall




This place was amazing...hardly anybody was there except some scrubs trying to sell you ice water and shirts and other crap



Here they are...at every tower, something to sell you







This guy looks slightly like the RZA from far away...I thought he was going to make me answer some questions before i could pass or something...




what a hike that was...im dead now....hurting....in pain....after this we all headed to Outback and loaded up...yup they have outback in china...bloomin onions and all



Out....I hate those colors they make me scared and make me think im doing something wrong even when im not




Time for Tienamens Sq and the Forbidden City





my man Mao....for some stupid reason they all love him there, i guess they have no idea what he did to them and how dumb he was....he has this quote book featuring such gems of wisdom as "The only way to become a doctor is to be a doctor"....ahh i get it now





Thats me!! bottom left




Im out... next city please


Xi'an / Xianyang

Now that work is done i have about a week to travel, first stop xianyang where a good friend of mine from the US lives and teaches english... he lives in a suburb of xi'an (pop 12 mil), in a small town of 5 million named xianyang....famous for its proximity to the Terracotta Warriors, made a few thousand years ago...ull see soon



Here they are, kinda cool, really old statues and lots of them, i dont see what the big deal is though















some guy that tried to sell me shit...get the fuck outta my car dude



around town







a new club that had opened that night, 1+1, looked cool too bad a.chinese people are terrible dancers b.hardly anybody was there





OK next city,

HANZHOU

a small city outside of Shanghai, amazing place, the chinese have a saying "above there is heaven, and right below there is Hanzhou" well thats off a bit, but it was a nice place











OK finally the place ive been waiting for SHANGHAI...

shanghai was an awesome place, so many giant buildings, so many more going up, the nyc of china....and just like nyc everything was crazy expensive....my camera got stolen within the first 30 minutes but i was back in action that night, bought a new one, a sony...made in china but actually markedly more expensive then if i bought the same model in the US...sucked...











this is the Oriental Pearl Tower, you will see a bunch of pics of this place





My man mao


This is the Pudong area....it was basically nothing 10 years ago and has been built into one of the biggest financial centers in the world...amazing archetecture, amazing lights at night....








This building had the biggest Tv screen ever on it , as you can see in the first picture up top



Awesome neon signs there, big industry









This is Nanjing Road, in The Bund, its one of the worlds busiest shopping centers...we almost got scammed here from some girls that invited us for tea and the bill somehow was about $125...too bad i blew up on everybody, they all were losing face, all of their customers looking....thanks for the free tea you fucking idiots...dont ever try to scam me





Pudong




This is The Bund tunnel, you have to take it to get to Pudong area...an amazing light show on the way







The Jin Mao Towers (literal translation : golden luxury) in the Pudong area is the 5th tallest building in the world by roof hight...here it is from below


And here I am, 3 pictures...same time of night, same camera settings, somehow 3 totally different amazing pictures...








and here i am on the 88th floor of the Jin Mao towers...what a great view of the city



a hotel inside the building



The Bund Tunnel once more