Pingyao Hostels - Comments and Reviews

Sunday 6th Sep - Pingyao
The internal lights went on in our train carriage at 6.30am accompinaied by Chinese radio to help wake us up. It certainly was a very civilised way to travel - not the journey we thought we would have when we originally booked.. no noise, comfortable (ish) beds and no really badd smells. Bonus! At 7.30am we stepped ou...

So despite me swearing not to take the hard seat ever again, there we were again yesterday. This time it was only 12 hours though and I knew precisely what to expect so it was somehow manageable (didn’t even need the baijiu). This time the people around us were also a bit more interested in the two foreigners, and I was for example persuad...

Think ancient China a time when Mr Meagee ruled and the locals ALL wore those saucer hats that are unmistakenly Chinese. The streets are cobbled and there are a few temple roofs that distinguish the otherwise low roofed houses - the Hutongs (narrow streets) all have large double doors that lead into beautiful courtyards and you can imagine a wal...

Decide to pull another all-nighter on a train and stopping for some traditional Chinese looking life in the World Heritage town of Pingyao, to break up the long journey to Beijing and after, Mongolia.

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Pingyao is perhaps becoming famous for its international photo exhibition, this may only be on Chinese television though. What it has is an exceptional number of well restored historical buildings each with fantastic courtyards and mazes of rooms linked together through halls and alleyways. One wanders around for hours through these buildings ge...

Get up early to get the bus to Taiyuan but have a bit of a nightmare as we go to the wrong bus station, people try and help us but make us more exasperated, we eventually get a taxi to the correct station and land on our feet as we have the best bus i've ever been on. The journey to Taiyuan is a doddle, only get to see a small part of the city b...

Op nieuwjaarsdag vertrokken we 's avonds met de nachttrein naar Pingyao. We hadden van het werk dit reisje gekregen met als doel om in Xi'an te bekijken of het een geschikte bestemming is voor incentive groepen. Eerst zouden we een dag in Pingyao verblijven. Dit is een klein provinciaal stadje dat nog geheel ommuurd is door de originele stadsmuu...

We're currently in Pingyao which is roughly halfway between Beijing and Xian. Unfortunately we've had to do some back tracking to get here as we flew from Beijing to Xian avoiding the horrendous 20 hour (if you're lucky) train journey. Pinyao is beautiful; it's a traditional Chinese city which is surrounded by a completely intact Ming Dynasty wa...