Xi'an and the Terracota Warrior

I was trying to make a pause writing about my travels, because this is gonna be the last travel and post with the amazing friendship i made in Guangzhou, Nooooooo!!!

we arrived at the evening to Guangzhou, from Kuala Lumpur, tired and hungry.  So we took a train to Xi'an the next day; something i'll never forget is that we were about to murder Jana, we were supposed to be on the train station half hour before the train leave and i still don't remember HOW we manage to get there 15min before, just imagine a crowded station in China can be, there were no line, no order, and 4 girls pushing and trying to get in, anyway it was a great experience!
Too bad we couldn´t capture that time of our life, it was so stressing and funny.

 

squatting around @ Mouling Tomb

Xi'an picture from the bell tower

Thanks vivis for this picture i really loved it, even though i look fat

 

If you are planning to visit this place in the future, please don´t miss this, rent a bike and ride around the city walls, you should also climb the Hua Shan mountain, its really famous there, too bad i couldnt because of the time and weather problem. Sorry i´m not inspired anymore... i miss them so bad...

Is really nostalgic to knew that this was going to be the end, but of course i'm sure our friendship would last forever, no matter how distances we are, deep in my heart i would keep their spaces...  Ok, i'm not gonna cry because i already cried a lot of time before this happened! I'm so grateful for all this, i'll never regret that this happened to me. Just Hope to see you once again.

Ok, i just realized that i should made an album in my post, this is so sad i cannot share much picture with you, i´m gonna improve this as soon as possible. 
Please don´t miss the video, i never realized this happened until i visit this place.

Cheers to the Chinese National Day! (Oct 1st)

You'll think that im late to post this, yeah... i should've posted 4 days ago... but people in China are still celebrating this important day, they normally take the week off!!! SOoooo... Happy Chinese National Day for all my friends who's still in China, for all those who just leave China, for those who are proud to be Chinese, and for the ones who feels Chinese! 祝大家国庆节快乐！

 

From Malaysia to Singapore

The first thing that came to my mind thinking about Singapore was food in a tiny expensive city.  Here we go, we arrived to Singapore from Malaysia, Melaka by bus, i'm not sure if it take us 6 hours to get there or less. I fall deeply asleep the whole way, so i don't remember. When we where passing the border i was so nervous, i was afraid that they'll asked me about a visa to get in (at that time i wasn't trusting the internet, why if they changed something and didn't updated on the internet at the last moment?) Well actually the guy who was checking my passport were also afraid not to find Panama in the list, it was a funny and stressed moment.
When we got in we were a little bit lost, hungry and without Singapore Dollars, how can we take a cap or a bus to our hostal without SGD, poor girls in a rich city!! well that never stop us, we were still alive and together so we walk around to find a bank and get some cash, after the bank we expected to take a taxi, but then this taxi driver told us that the hostal was around 15mins walking, really near!!! in China we walk more than that so that was nothing for us, but of course we got tired because we needed food at that moment.

can you imagine a Mercedez Benz as a taxi in Panama or any other Latin country?

Nice view from the highest pool in Singapore ¨Marina Bay Sands resort¨

Smart Singaporean kid

As you see is a really clean city

We booked a reasonable cheap hostal i mean not the cheapest one but the one that is up to the cheapest one.  well, it was the worst hostal i had ever been, really bad service.
We sleep in a 8 bed mixed room and we were 4 girls in the room, it was really weird to sleep with stranger, specially when they were guys and smelly and snoring. well this wasn't the bad service part it was just an experience, i´ll keep the bad service for myself, sorry.
Oh! i missed the universal studio in Singapore, anyway it wasn't a big deal for me to see that, i just wanted to hang around the city, anyway everything was really expensive for us, and compared to China and other countries, Singapore is one of the richest and cleanest City's in the world.
Fun fact: you cannot chew bubble gum around or smoke. (this is something i heard from someone else, i'm not sure if is true)

Next: back to Malaysia

THE TIBET PLAN... FAIL

Jana, is one of the happiest, crazy, intelligent, sexy and disgusting friend i ever had. She's 50%german 50% Asian, why? simple, she got a really advance chineses speaking and a LOT of asian knowledge! that makes me feel bad sometimes. now shes learning korean, and she's good, it wont surprise me if one day she start to learn Hakka (my family dialect).
This girl have been traveling around Europe and Asia, im sure that one day she'll make it to Australia, Africa and America. She's really adventurous like a scout child! i wonder how she was at the elementary school...
Ok, lets make this shorter, Jana was one the good friend i meet during my year in China, Guangzhou. She was always planning something, it didn't matter if there were school days or holidays she was always up to something. The Tibet plan was her idea, and i start to like it when one of my Chinese teacher showed to the classroom picture of the places he had been in China, one of his favorite place was Tibet, the picture and his speech amazed me. After that i started make my own research about Tibet in www.baidu.com (is the chinese google).
Diana is  also a really good from GZ, she's an Italian born Chinese (IBC) and one of her dreams was travel to TIBET! the day she told me that, i started to convince myself, but my economic situation was bad, i was just a normal foreign student who's 80% of the financial support was from 3 hard working years. I was really sad, when my friends started to plan the whole travel, it was hard for me.
Thanks to GOD, i got a job before the whole travel thing and the end of the semester. i was a translator then.
But then my instinct started to betray me, at the beginning of the semester i join a Chinese instrument Class and i was really into it, that much that i wanted to get the instrument and sent back to Panama, so i can keep playing the chinese melodies, but it was sooo.. expensive to get a god one for beginner. so i was between the travel or the instrument, it was a hard desicion, but then i was just thinking, travel to tibet with 5 really good friends from school would be better now, so i choose Tibet, 3 days before my friends make the reservation i told them to include me. I WAS SO HAPPY! you cannot imagine!

But then, something terrible happened...  everyone's knows that Tibet and China never have had good relationship, our travel agent tried to get the pass for us to Tibet, but it didn't work, im not sure about what happened at the time, but i really wanted to kill someone!  NO TRAVEL TO TIBET, WHAT? and the holidays was in two weeks and there was a month left for me to stay in CHINA! NOooooo...
I didn't wanted to cry, i wanted to fight with my Tae kwondo coach, Nasser. He is black belt in everything and i just got the yellow one. and what about the others? same same... so we had time problems. we had to change our whole plan, planning something in 2 week with all our problems (sending the stuff, books and clothes back home).  Well, i was so confused. I could had keep working getting more chin chin.. or do nothing, why because Most of the places in Asia is kind of restricted for Panamenian, Yes we need a visa for almost everywhere.....
Jana has this wonderful idea, traveling to Malaysia and Singapore and maybe Indonesia, but there where not time for me if i wanted to get a visa for an country in Asia, sometimes takes 1 weeks and it depend...  I was about to give up... Then i found out that Panamenian doesnt need a visa for malaysia and Singapore, so a said YES!

this are some pictures from tibet i found on the internet, is really cool to see everything there, get to know the culture and best view i the world.  well this is my personal opinion.  wait for next post!