Boarded the bus at 8am and was off on a 2hr adventure to Qufu, the Birth/Buriel place of Confucius. The experience was an interesting one. What I have realized is that a lot of the authentic temples and places have been burned down over and over throughout the years so the Chinese will re-build these sites in the same location but with a modern ...

We arrived in Qufu around 3 pm on Tuesday afternoon. The center of it is like an ancient Chinese city, surrounded in a giant wall. It seemed very nice from the bus. We had a cabbie take us to a hotel that was warm and no more than Y100. He took us to the Confucius Temple Hotel where it was Y120. We checked out the room, it looked okay. They said...