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southern china limestone 8-Mar-2005 At 1:11:10 PM francesca

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not windy - warm like a spring day in melbourne, the air seems to be getting better despite the pollution
increasing, probably coz they are moving the factories further from town - they have even started dredging
the canals in guangzhou and cleaning them, it's going to be a regular amsterdam in a couple of months.

and jiulong (same characters as kowloon in hong kong) is a mere 1 1/2 hours north of guangzhou on the
guangqing expressway (well 1 1/2 hours if they fix the road after qingyuan, but 2 1/2 at the moment -
about 150km or so). it's the same rock formation as yangshuo about 10 hours east but is totally
overlooked... still a shit-poor farming town.

the person on rockclimbing.com is the guy i hooked up with. i saw guangzhou and hit the message button.
he's a very cool guy who's been climbing for years and put up alot of the routes in okinawa, and totally
mad keen on climbing as many new routes in jiulong as possible in the next four years.

also alot of the hong kong people have started coming up too, it's only 4 hours drive from there, so even
(long) day trips are possible, but lots of weekend trips in the next couple of months. but i miss out, i'm on
a plane back to melb in 12 hours for six weeks... anyone wanna climb?