Beifang Hotel Shuozhou
No.18 Gubei East Street Shuozhou, Shanxi, China
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... it is so high up and looks really unstable, but it was still great. The day after that I went to the centre of Datong and visited the Huayan monastery. It had some nice statues of buddha and some fierce looking other ones. The monks also appear to 'feed' them or sacrifice food to them, so some of the lion/dragon statues had fresh apples and oranges. It looked pretty funny. As said before, now I am in an overnight train from Datong to Xi'an. This time ...
Avacardo/brown Bath
... they were all carved then covered in cley then painted in very bright colours. the first and most impressive buddha is 50M high. Dan had a Pea and Been flaviour ice cream.. ummm after lunch we headed off to the Hanging Monistary if we thought our eyes could take much more,,, there hangin off a shere cliff about 200m off the floor stood a monistary with whos roots trace ...
Deuxième étape : Inner Mongolia
... savais et c'est pour ca qu'on a apporté un pic-nic! Non, non, lunch non-inclu à Datong çà veut dire pas de temps pour manger! Tu mangeras en revenant qu'elle nous dit. La y'a eu une rébellion général du petit groupe (1 chilien, 1 française et 2 américain-nes et nous) Personne n'a prit le lunch mais tout le monde veut manger:-) Et ils font quoi quand la moitié du groupe prend avec lunch?? Donc, les bouddhas je disais. Assez impressionnant. Ici ...
From one extreme to another...
We are now in Datong and have an afternoon to chill out and give you a bit of an update on the last few days…
The trip to the great wall was stunning. On the way to it, we went past the Badaling part off the wall which is much more touristy (and the bit that was on 'An Idiot Abroad'). Because it was a national holiday it was mobbed – The wall looked like a giant escalator of florescent macks and flashing cameras. We were beginning to have our doubts that ...
Wutai Shan
... uiteindelijk te komen tot het nirvana, liep ik de monnik achterna. De hoogste lama's konden naar het Nirvana maar hebben gekozen hun leven op aarde voort te zetten om de mensheid te helpen. Een beetje duizelig wordt je er wel van, vooral van de grote gebedsrollen waar je omheen moet lopen :-). Onvoorstelbaar hoe de monnikken dit 365 dagen per jaar elke dag volhouden, door weer en wind! Het was een aparte ervaring en toen de monnik zijn behorende drie ronden om de stupa ...


