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Kaifeng Slideshow
Top Hotels in Kaifeng
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New Century Grand Hotel Kaifeng
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Kaifeng Hotel
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Kaifeng Dongjing Hotel
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Henan Hotel Kaifeng
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Bian Jing Hotel Kaifeng
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Jinyuan Kaiyue Hotel Kaifeng
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Jinhong Business Hotel Kaifeng
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Dajintai Hotel Kaifeng
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Henan Jinyuan Hotel Kaifeng
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Kai Lai Hotel Kaifeng
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Kaifeng
Travel Blogs from Kaifeng, China
The earthquake
This is a top pick! I'm used to bizarre events happening daily in China. Whitney Houston blaring throughout campus during lunch time, Old Man Tank Top fashioning his garden plants into Olympic rings or elderly people flocking to a stand to receive ...
getting kicked when you're down.
This is a top pick! ... to myself. Now, I know that it seems from my travel blog that I spend most of my days blissfully cavorting around China the Red, but really, most days are spent inside of my apartment trying to decipher my students' handwriting. There is no ...
Adventures at Tetanus Playground, chapter 2
This is a top pick! ... ve heard people say "Hola." But I had no idea why people were speaking in Spanish. While they were teaching us phrases in the Kaifeng dialect, they taught us that you say "oh la" to answer the phone or to say "OK." At ...
The Iron Pagoda
This is a top pick! ... to better focus their attention on this strange person. I wrapped my way around the veranda, walking along a number of Kaifeng businessmen who apparently took the afternoon off to sit on the veranda's railings to fish and eat Kaifeng's famous ...
Emily vs. the English Book
This is a top pick! When I first found out my teaching assignments a couple of weeks ago, I was really excited. I wasn't stuck teaching first-year writing, a subject I was told was so impossible to teach that I should threaten to quit as soon as it ...
Visual Stimulation
This is a top pick! By popular demand, here are some pictures from the day-to-day sights and places that make up Kaifeng. The captions underneath will tell you more about each ...
Lunar Year wrap-up
This is a top pick! ... you as you finally shut the door to your apartment and collapse on your bed. For the first time, Kaifeng feels like home. November. Struggling to teach during your most difficult class, you receive a text message from ...
Wo bu ming bai!
This is a top pick! ... I'm glad I'm living in Kaifeng because the city protects me from seeing most of China's ridiculous and unfettered construction. During the Song Dynasty, Kaifeng was the center of Chinese civilization and that was probably the last time the city ...
will you be my moon cake?
This is a top pick! Tuesday was Mid-Autumn Festival, China's second biggest festival. It's a time where you come together with your family and your lovers to sit and watch the full moon while eating moon cakes, a circular Asian form of marzipan, but ...
Thanksgiving in the P.R.C.
This is a top pick! ... Sally White came as well, much to everyone's surprise and great anticipation. Vichara, an American woman who has been teaching in Kaifeng for the past month, also came and best of all was Bingde, Ben's Korean roommate, who celebrated his very first ...
A Very Kaifeng Christmas
This is a top pick! ... and Max (the only non-Christian laowai in the 'Feng) was being asked to perform in a Christmas show for a fancy Kaifeng hotel. Through a connection between Erin and one of her students, Max was asked to give a speech about the ...
You say, I say, We all say.
This is a top pick! ... research papers on Taiwan and what they gave me were pages upon pages of propaganda. Or when I showed a Chinese person where Kaifeng was on my Lonely Planet map and he verbally attacked me, wondering why Taiwan was a different color on the map ...
Hutong Clan
This is a top pick! ... spreading its love all over the 'guo. Also, some of you have been complaining that it doesn't seem like I actually live in China since I haven't posted any pictures of me. Well, here you go. I am alive and kickin' in the ...
Da Xiangguo Si
This is a top pick! ... Da Xiangguo Si, the Buddhist monastery that is located right off a downtown street and around the corner from Gulou - Kaifeng's biggest night market. But that's exactly what happened. Rounding the corner of Bootleg Street ...
The Kaifeng Cosmopolitan
This is a top pick! ... in regards to the tolls they took on the humanity of China) and what it was like raising six children in China. Her mother decided to move to Kaifeng when she was 67 because she "would rather live in the country that would most likely be the first ...
Chinese music lessons
This is a top pick! ... strategies involve pretending to be asleep, listening to my mp3 player, or pretending that I'm French. Saying "Bonjour" in China really confuses people. So I was genuinely surprised when Lacey's question didn't move into a conversation about ...
Crepuscular China
This is a top pick! ... a loud and abrasive character, I discovered that once you step outside the door and into the creamy blue of daybreak, China becomes almost demure. The morning smells like burning leaves and cold. The cold smoky smell mixes in my ...
I want it that way.
This is a top pick! ... of Music. I'm not really sure how that happened. They taught us some Chinese words and "Chinese words with Kaifeng accent," like how the Sanlanchi's aren't really called that but instead are called beng bengs, which means Jump-Jump because ...
Kaifeng
This is a top pick! ... before heading off on the overnight train to Nanjing tomorrow. Hope you are enjoying your arm/office chair travels... The Kaifeng night market was a lively, pungent scene with some gut-wrenching odours and bizarre meat items on sale!?! Having ...
feeling my fingers again
This is a top pick! ... as we scandalize and delight Chinese people with our music and a bottle of pijiou or two. I'm falling in love with Kaifeng again and it makes teaching seem even more worthless. I'm as distracted and apathetic about school and learning as my ...
Adventures at Tetanus Playground, chapter 1
This is a top pick! ... Me - Uh...I don't speak Chinese? Tetanus Playground Lady - babble babble babble something about beer and Kaifeng. Me - ......... Finally, after several minutes of babbles and Erin and I sharing glances of ...
Millennium Park
This is a top pick! ... city built an amusement park based on a famous scroll depicting every day life during the Song Dynasty in its capital - Kaifeng. This amusement park, called QingMing Garden in Chinese and Millennium Park in English, is the physical manifestation of ...
I wear my sunglasses at night
This is a top pick! ... smiles and waves. And Max is his own brand of ridiculousness, especially when it comes to perusing the many nightmarkets in Kaifeng. He's sort of like a little puppy that's been released. He trots from vendor to vendor, sniffing out and ...
Day 35
This is a top pick! ... it back. That means I'll have to buy two new ones - one for him, and one for me to continue using! I wondered around Kaifeng looking for digital camera shops but found just a few models inferior to what I'd been using - I'll just have to wait till the ...
The Acrobats
This is a top pick! ... nbsp; "You're shitting me, right? A real circus?" "A real circus. They travelled all over China," Freddie continued, with a smile that didn't quite assure me he wasn't joking. "Is your family still a ...
Night Market Capital in China
This is a top pick! This night market reminds me lots about Taiwan. However, it's Chinese food! People are much nice to talk to and ask ...
Halloween on the other side of the world
This is a top pick! ... "Oh God Oh God Oh God Oh God!" I thought. I quickly thought of my mental Top Ten Ways to Die in China list I have, and being stampeded by a crowd of students wearing Zombie Samurai Warrior costumes suddenly became number one. ...
Shear genius in China
This is a top pick! ... to one of the non-KTV hair salons. They actually took me to the hair salon that first caught my eye when I came to Kaifeng. It has a giant couch next to the window with the largest teddy bear pillow I have ever seen. The first week ...
Day 33
This is a top pick! ... evening might be in order. My visa for China is one month and we still have a lot of China to see. I'd read that the Public Security Beaureu in Kaifeng were pretty relaxed about visa extensions so went into their office to enquire. I was dealt with by ...
Day 34
This is a top pick! What a difference a day makes! As I write this my thoughts about Kaifeng have changed largely thanks to Jason, our tour guide. We got dressed and headed down to our free-of-charge breakfast at 8.30am. Jason was already outside and we remembered that we ...