International Yinchuan

... zjistili, kde se v Cine pije, jsme take zjistili, jak se v Cine spravne pije. 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 doplatil na sve jazykove znalosti a stal se oblibencem vojaku na exovani. Jenda se snazil bavit cinsky s ...

... jako je letadlo.

U prepazky nam s prekladanim Anglictina- Cinstina pomahal jeden kluk z Mongolska. Rekl nam, ze vypadame jako "movie stars". Ani ta odpudiva plastenka, co jsem mela na sobe, ho od tohoto tvrzeni neodradila:)

Pote nasledovala destiva pout za jedinou internetovou kavarnou v Yinchuan. Kdyz jsme kavarnu nasli tak pokracovalo hledani jedineho hostelu ve meste (Jixiang Xixia Internacional Youth Hostel) a divoka jizda v ...

you know when you are very very tired and you don't realize the dimensions of a huge event happening to you? well, throughout my trip, I was so tired and stressed that I was not really aware I was going to china. But after all the stress is gone. WOW... I have to say WOW.. I am finally in China!!! unfortunately I did not have enough time to see Beijin, just the 30 minutes that it took the shuttle driver to take us from one ...

... entrance fee, so we ask to be dropped off downtown instead. I want to get his address so I can send him a picture but forget when we get out of the cab, so I guess he'll never see what he looks like at the Xi Xia Wang Ling. Sorry, cab man. In the afternoon we go to the city's grand mosque. Ningxia province was created fifty years ago as a special Autonomous Region for China's Muslim minority, and we figure that the mosque will be interesting. It ...

... a bed of roses' they really aren't joking. The land is anything but farmable. In fact anyone who loves rocks and rock gardens please purchase the entire province and put its entire population out of misery. Sadly most of the population are farmers! What they farm besides sun flowers and rocks I don't know! The road we were traveling on soon ended at our first ...

... 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 pillars and the top of the onion dome are the only things that can be seen from the Yuhuange Nanjie (Road). For future seekers of the Great Mosque here in ...

... Australia nor their own town or state! Enough of that and on a funnier note! On the way home last night we dropped in to a small store to grab some beer and water and beside us were two excited Chinese girls talking about water. I knew that much as I know the word for water and a few others but I had no idea 'what' they were talking about. Luo Wei told me about it in ...

... or so varieties of precious bird species, such as swans, white and grey cranes, black storks, and wild geese. Shapotou on the southern rim of the Tengger Desert: There one will find the Desert Research Centre, established in 1956 to find ways of preventing the sands from encroaching onto the railways, and one of China's four singing sand dunes ...

... bamboo cabins in the mountain, shame we'd already got a return taxi. Our trip to Sanying (Xumi Shan or "Paradise" in transliteration) and the surrounding buddhist rock carvings started with us being deposited on the side of the highway 6km from town, luckily after walking 15mins a minivan stopped for us and dropped us at a hotel. The carvings dating from the Wei dynasty 1400 years ago are mostly worn away since the rock is soft and calcaire, however those that rest are found ...

... in the region. This morning we visited the Xi Xia Ling, the huge burial mounds of the rulers of the ancient Xia kingdom, who were eventually wipped off the map by Chinggis Khan's army. The pyramid-like mounds were pretty impressive and the museum with all the artifacts that were found in the mounds was neat too. We found some pottery shards ourselves near ...