• China

    Raise the Red Lantern

    In the massage parlour we heard about a famous house with 6 major courtyards and over a hundred rooms located closeby Pingyao. We look it up in our guide and it appears that the famous Chinese movie Raise the Red…

  • China

    BEIJING, WE MADE IT

    Just over 30.000 kilometers further and we are driving into the Chinese Capital Beijing. Will we make it without accidents, we worry for the last time. Will we make it without a single flat tyre? Slowely we move forward in…

  • China

    Mao has gone commercial

    Beijing equals shopping. There is no doubt about it that Beijing is a shoppers paradise. No city in the world, we reckon can surpass this. For everyone there is something. There are posh shopping avenues for designer clother, the pearl…

  • China

    The pressconference

    Via Chinadaily.com, the biggest online english/chinese newspaper, a press conference is arranged today at ten in the morning. There we are able to tell our story and promote the work of SOS. In total three big newspapers will attend the…

  • China

    Temple of heaven and the rubber lady

    There is a lot to do in Beijing. It makes it a city perfect for a weeks holiday. But even then you probably haven¡¯t enough time to see it all. We even wonder if we can see it all. We…

  • China

    The last village

    Yes, the official finish was in Beijing. But the expedition isn¡¯t over as we need to ship the car back to the Netherlands and have a last visit planned to a SOS village. Tianjin is our destination. There the first…

  • China

    Shipping the car back home

    At 7:30 the alarm clock goes. Today is the day we are going to ship our car back to the Netherlands. We have breakfast with the village director and the director of SOS China. Both will come to the harbor…