Foshan Hotel Wutaishan

Wutaishan was one of our greatest disasters to date.Hee and there's been a few. I booked a hostel which gave directions to Wutaishan bus station but was in fact in Nanning- a whole other provence. Oops.<br>Pretty place, once we'd finally checked into somewhere in our price range. It was the coldest place I've ever been. The water in the river had frozen solid! We had pot noodles in bed and tried some rice wine, (evil smelling stuff) and quickly got on a bus out of there! <br>Love Lucy xxx<br>

To save a bit of money we decided to travel with the locals on the 'hard sleeper' class on the train to Datong, and to be honest is wasn't too bad. There were 6 beds instead of 4 in each compartment, each bed was just a wooden platform with a blanket and pillow and there was not enough room to sit up but the 6 hour journey was pretty good!! We were the only westerners in this class so we felt like celebrities with all the ...

... na veceri (odvedeni nahaneci, kteri nas rano ubytovali). Tentokrat jsme meli stastnou volbu a vsechna jidla byla dobra. Nanestesti pro Misu, ktera byla na prujmove diete a mohla pouze suchou ryzi a par knedlicku.<br><br><br><br>Posledni faze dne byla sprcha, ktera mela fungovat do 11ti. Sprchovali jsme se postupne a posledni sel Jenda v 22:30. Tekla mu pouze ledova voda a zvuky, ktere se ozvyvaly ze sprchy, by sly pouzit v prumernem pornofilmu.

... znacku. Ostatni auta objizdi misto, ktere zacpal bus a auto temer potokem. <br>Nasleduje nekonecne cekani na policii. Nakonec jedeme do Wutaishan v aute neznamym s cinanem. Vstup do pohori a chramoveho komplexu Wutai stoji 220 yuanu na osobu (vcetne pojisteni).<br><br>story2: sokujci noc ve Wutaisha (pokus nas okrast v hospode)<br>Dojizdime do Wutai, do hl. vesnice a nemuzeme sehnat ubytovani ...

... chants gregoriens, mais version bouddhiste, vraiment fou.<br><br>Ce qui est un peu bizarre c'est que les touristes peuvent assister a la messe comme ils veulent. Et comme les chinois sont remplis de savoir vivre comme on vous l'a deja explique, ils courent partout entre les moines, prennent des photos, derangent les moines et sont completement indiscrets.<br><br>Et bon, nous on essayait d'etre vraiment discrets, mais puisqu'on devait etre les seuls occidentaux de tout le village qu ...

Woke up in a hotel with no electricity (see we do slum it sometimes!) and headed to the... <br>JUST WATCHED SOMEONE SPIT DOWN THE SIDE OF A CHAIR IN THE INTERNET SHOP - GROSS<br><br>Next we had a 3 hour coach journey and met some more nice locals, we were on our way to one of the most holly spots in China with more than 52 temples spread across the Wu Tai Shaun mountain range - it was time to look at ...

... fairground atmosphere that seems to surround anything that might be of possible interest to anyone in China (people selling brightly coloured junk for extortionate prices, tour guides, 'english students' that sort of thing), though that might just be because it was so damn cold. Whatever the reason was, I welcomed it. It wasn't the town I came to visit, though. It's been a good few months since I've had the opportunity to get out into the country, and ...

We've been in China a week now and have had to re-evaluate what we are going to be able to see. We completely under-estimated the size of the country and have had to write off alot of locations (Tibet included unfortunately). But back to Pingyao. We arrived at 5am to Yamen Hostel. Its a great hostel with antique Chinese furniture a couple of hundred years old. Really nice place to stay ...

... Wutaishan was 1) not on my original itinerary, and 2) AMAZING. Its this little monastic village in the mountains, originally home to many monasteries and a small local population of monks and villagers, now home to the same, plus HORDES of tourists. We lived in an active monastery - you eat breakfast, shower, and generally chill with the monks, about 25 live there. Otherwise the town is just dominated by temples and monasteries, at least between the ...

After the caves we traveled back to Datong to catch a bus to Hunyaun, a small town near Xuankong Si (the Hanging Monastery), which is a monastery that was built into the side of a canyon and has been 'hanging' there intact for over 1,600 years (around 400 AD)! It was built along the contours of the cliff and the various buildings are connected by bridges and boardwalks and many statues of gods and Buddha's. The structure is supported by dozens of ...