Dehongxiang Hotel Jinzhong

... we say a convoy of wedding cars throwing fire crackers out the windows as well as a lot of inflatable almsot like archways to lead the way into a (presumably) wedding as there was usually a lot of music and noise coming from around these. Also from the wall you get to see a LOT of corn on the roofs of houses and tied in bundles hanging from trees drying out. There are lots of shops selling 5-20 yuan items and their all fixed price and reasonable too, like you ...

... jsme se sli poptat na autobusove nadrazi, kde nam opet rekli, ze jizdenky az zitra. To nam na nalade nepridalo, k tomu jeste dokonale seda obloha, to se dostavila inverze z Taiyuanu, no nadhera. Rozhodli jsme se obejit mistni pamatky a druhy den rano vyrazit lovit listky. V Pingyao je vetsina atrakci na spolecnou vstupenku, nastesti meli i studentskou slevu, protoze jinak to byla pekna palka. Pingyao bylo predevsim financnicke hnizdo, banka na kazdem rohu, od toho se ...

... a bien fait parce que on aurait galere seul et a pied. L'auberge est super bien. On fait un rapide tour de la ville (vraiment maginifique et hors du commun) et puis retour a l'auberge pour un bon petit dej'. Ensuite, enoooorme sieste qui a fait bien plaisir et puis re-tour de la ville mais de nuit cette fois (toujours aussi magnifique). Nouvelles decouvertes gustatives: - galette oeuf ...

... a su cuarto donde la cama era calentada con leña por debajo en el invierno, así será el frio que hará. Tras todo el día de recorrer el pueblo terminamos en la calle central que parecía sacada de un cuento chino de tiempos de Marco Polo, sin ver mucho mas este es mi lugar favorito en la china, es la china verdadera. Ahí visitamos como 10 casas de las docenas de casas que han sido declaradas patrimonio mundial de la humanidad. Como ser ...

... Thankfully my ticket got me through the gate without me having to remove my wallet. It was beautiful and I would say it would have to be one of the highlights of Pingyao. It houses the Tax Office, the prison, an opera stage, a beautiful Confucian Temple and the tallest building in Pingyao, the city tower. The buildings were so neat and tidy (almost too ...

Hey Hey and a Big G'Day toya What a fantastic day I had today! Last night I spent until well after closing time with a couple from Belgium chatting about all things China. They were after a backup plan in case Plan A didn't work out and as Plan A was going to Tibet I deiced to sit them down and talk some serious Guangxi and Yunnan Province talk. We covered the Guilin area and very much most ...

... of treasure. Next we went to Qiao Jia Dayuan which was an old business center over 300 years ago. This whole area really felt like nothing had changed and I was walking back in time. From Taiyuan, we drove to the city of Pingyao which is known as being a very ancient city. The first stop here was the Shuanglin Temple. It ...

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... Local businessmen had become so successful by the Qing dynasty that they created the country's first banks and cheques, in order to facilitate the transfer of enormous amounts of silver from one place to another. The city fell into poverty in the 20th century, and, without the cash to modernize, Pingyao's streets have since gone unchanged." (Lonely Planet)

... of note are that the police all ride around in golf carts, 4 to a cart, which slightly diminishes their authority and makes you want to point and laugh and take pictures and that you can ride around the whole city on a bike all day for about 75pence. Plus, there is a very friendly man at the Harmony guesthouse who organised our train tickets, gave us free tea all day and made me the most amazing banana pancakes that i got to eat with a knife and fork! I am so cultured.