Tianshui Dajiudian
Travel Blogs from Tianshui
Culture Shock? So over it.
... she does. I think I tie myself to people in a similar way, but my people are stationary, the Texans mostly like Texas and the Californians mostly(kinda) like California. So if I want to travel it means I have to leave my favorite place and favorite people in order to live elsewhere without them. See the trickiness of this? I want to travel to understand new places, but it's hard to want to be elsewhere when you've already found a home.
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Maijishan and Immortals' Cliff
... candles and incense. She said hello then followed me into the temple to continue chatting. At first I was a little on edge wondering if she was going to ask me to buy something. What I should have been wondering was when on earth I became so cynical. She comes from a family of farmers who live near the entrance of the park and sells candles to help her family out. She had never spoken to a foreigner before, was thrilled that we were able to have a ...
Yes, laowai eat noodles too!
... Dai Suo. The young guy on reception looked positively stunned that there was a foreigner standing in front of him asking him questions. He answered in a daze with eyes wide like saucers, until I said that I would take the room, at which point he came to and gasped “Huh?!” I got a double with a bathroom for 88 RMB. I should have bargained because I think it was probably worth about 60 RMB. When I got upstairs I found out that it was very small with a squattie, but I will ...
Day trip from Xi'an to Maijishan
Breathtaking place. REALLY worth the long trip on bumpy Chinese highways, through endless tunnels. Not too many people for once (maybe the rainy weather helped a bit) and even less laowais (foreigners). Some Chinese people even wanted to take a picture together with us.
Wikipedia article about Maijishan:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maijishan_ ...
PaRappa the Rapper
... story Journey to the West, where the travelers (the main characters) are Buddhist and sometimes treat Taoists as their brothers and other times have really big problems with them. Well, we would fall into the latter category. When looking at a pantheon of gods, I asked Abby a question about them. She didn't know the answer, so she asked the Taoist priest standing right there. His putonghua was perfect, so I understood just about everything he said. "You ...
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