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Travel Blogs from Yinchuan, China
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The Chinese Pyramids
This is a top pick! ... well, we figure, we need some rest and it's really not that exorbitant. We check in. Originally, Yinchuan wasn't on our itinerary for this trip sampling China's Midwest. However, last year back in Foshan our friend's friend, Alan, had shown us ...
Culture Shock
This is a top pick! ... like 'oh sweet god' as they have to pretend to be athiests in the People's Republic. Oh, and while I'm talking about China, I'd like to go on record as saying it's the least communist communist country ever. It's kind of like a capitalist ...
Konecne pravda o karaoke
... . A v Cine se pije vse na Ex - cele lahve piva (coz vyzadovali nasi hostitele s usmevem na rtech a vetou: Welcome in China), kdyz uz clovek evidentne nemuze cele pivo do sebe dostat, zacnou se exovat asi dvoudecove sklenicky. Byla to jizda! Stavik zle ...
Back of Beyond
... the language barrier and he must not have worked for over an hour. We took a taxi out into the countryside north of Yinchuan, hardly anybody lives here and the taxi driver was not to sure of her way either. The Helian Shan mountain range peaks at ...
Hostel, rytiny, opile karaoke s policajty,
... vraci" 4.08.09 - Byli jsme na vylete na cisarskych tombach, pravekych rytinach ve skalach a filmovem studiu. Tomby : Xixia Mausoleum Yinchuan China: www.xixialing.com K pohrebisti bylo tez pridano muzeum, kde byli uzitne predmety a figuryny, ktere ...
Train back East
After an 18 hour trainride through the desert, we are now in Yinchuan, the capital of Ningxia Huizu Autonomous Region, a tiny province sanwitched in-between Inner Mongolia and Shaanxi, where about 30 percent of the local population are Hui, an ethnic ...
Ten Thousand Year Old Faces N Ancient Xia Tombs
This is a top pick! ... the olympics after the earthquake tore apart not only the cities and mountains but also the families. Yinchuan (where I am now) was the center of China's last massive earthquake. But this one was even worse than the Sichuan quake ...
How Can We Lose The Great Mosque? Isn't it Great?
This is a top pick! ... you lose something so great? In the end we finally found the Great Mosque. Hidden well beneath walls of scaffolding lies Yinchuan's supposed great mosque. We found no way in so I guess it is closed to the public. The front two ...
Leaving The Grasslands for Unfarmable Desert Lands
This is a top pick! ... history, all add up to make Ningxia an interesting tourist area for those wishing to discover a rich and diverse region. Yinchuan City (also called 'Phoenix City') is the capital of the region situated in the remote northwest of China. The ...
Bell Towers N Unexpected Lush Green City Parks
This is a top pick! ... ; We then decided it was time for a romantic walk around Zhongshan Park. Let us compare Yinchuan's park to most other parks in China especially in the north of China. Zhongshan Park offers fields of green grass, lakes of water and ...
Where's Mad Max??
Big road day today from Hohhot to Yinchuan, following the Yellow River inland all day long. The section from Baotou to Huinong was incredibly industrial. We passed who knows how many coal-fired generating plants, factories, steel factories, and an entire ...
No trunkless legs in this desert to my knowledge.
... ), you can only visit one of the tombs. Sure, they are all generally the same, but I was a little disappointed. Most of Yinchuan's sights, actually, are located in the same general area, and there are plenty things we didn't even attempt to do (visit the ...
Powerhouse of the East – Hohhot to Yinchuan
A long, long drive (12.5hrs) from Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, to Yinchuan, Ningxia. Our scenery: mines, mines, and power stations. Mostly shaft mines, with occasional open cut, to feed coal to the dozens of power stations in the province, which power the rest ...
Day 2: 60km on a windy day at Yinchuen
First day of our cycling trip - there were around 50 of us from Hong Kong, a few from Macau and Guangdong, we collected our rental mountain bikes from the official Giant store in Yinchuen, and started cycling! The rental bikes were of good ...
Dagje in de trein
Rond acht uur beginnen de mensen zich te roeren. Bovenin de slaaptrein heb je daar weinig last van, dus we doezelen nog wat door. Bij de toiletten en de wasbakjes is het, naar vewrwachting, nogal druk, dus wachten we maar eerst op het ontbijt. Een ...
My Wonderful and Horrifying Tour of Yinchuan
... got back on the tour bus to go to the next destination. We arrived at a wolfberry vineyard where they specialized in a famous Yinchuan tea. Instead of walking around in the hot sun, I decided to rest inside the gift shop area. The group entered shortly ...
Tombs and towers
... , I actually went to another temple, with another pagoda/tower as well, Chengtian Si : http://www.travelchinaguide.com/attraction/ningxia/yinchuan/chengtiansi.htm. The main difference to other towers I've seen in this trip so far is that I was able to go ...
Apr 07, 2013
Arrival in Yinchuan
... freezing, though. In any case, after my (relatively short) shower, I rested for a while before venturing out into the surrounding area. Yinchuan sits on the edge of desert, so the city is extremely dry. I normally put on lotion after I shower every day, ...
Day 6: Cycling at full speed under cool sunny sky
... cool and bright, perfect day for long distance cycling in the countryside! Back at Yinchuan city, we went out for a massage after dinner and was recommended to visit a huge 5 storey complex with massage area ...
Aug 08, 2011
Aardbeving
We zijn net bezig met opstaan. Een geluid alsof er een zwaarbeladen palletwagen over een hobbelige betonweg dendert. Het bed schudt. Chinees geroep op de gang. We moeten het hotel uit, wordt er gebaard. Half aangekleed naar buiten. Het personeel blijft ...
Carvings, Tombs, Towers and the Wall
... guessed I might like. He was right again. It was also 60 RMB, which seems to be the going rate for tourist attractions near Yinchuan. Once you get inside, you get in a buggy and go to a place (a tavern at that) where foreign and local archaeologists ...
Koningsgraven
Na het ontbijt naar het centrum, om te pinnen. We moeten Eddie nog een en andr betalen en dat kunnen we doen door cash geld te deponeren op zijn rekening. Aangezien we maar een maximum bedrag van ongeveer 300 euro per dag kunnen pinnen kost dat wat ...
Ouwe meuk
Ontbijt in het hotel, daarna op ons gemakje een taxi gepakt naar het museum van Yinchuan, een ritje van 20 minuten. Een imposant gebouw, van binnen compleet volgelegd met glimmende natuursteen. Een gigantisch hoge centrale hal met er omheen 3 verdiepingen ...
Day 2 (or is it 3?)
... and headed down to breakfast in the hotel 6:00am: Boarded the buses for the airport. 8:25am: Boarded the Air China flight to Yinchuan. It is shaping up to be another long day. 1:00pm: We finally arrive at the Yinchuan airport ...
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