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| 2nd part of our itinerary through China (overview) |
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| 2nd part of our itinerary through China (detail) |
Our apologies again. China was the second country on our trip to give us a real hard time to access internet. Most of the time it was even worse than Iran. We are not allowed to buy a SIM Card, so we have to rely on WiFi in hotels, where we park for the night. Unfortunately these connections are terribly slow and often interrupted, so sometimes Torsten sits for hours in hotel lobbies trying to get a VPN to work to access our mail. Google is blocked totally, so gmail is off too, blogspot they consider off limit too, though Bing works really quick. Apparently Bing reached a very satisfying agreement with the Chinese government… :( And Chinese officials are even more perfidious than the Iranian ones: they don’t only block sites, but they also slow down any traffic. From what we heard, a lot of people get into the internet via VPN and apparently they don’t want to close that gate but make it as slow as possible. It’s a bit like letting people see the candy and let them taste sometimes, but actually they are far away from the real joy. So, we were five weeks almost without internet access and that is why it took some time to post the last four weeks!
