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Foshan Hotel Wutaishan

Jiulonggang, Taihuai Town Wutaishan, Shanxi, China

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Temple Mountain

A travel blog entry by christine1205

11

29 June

Ich hab zwar schon gelesen, dass an diesem Ort die Haeufigste Tempelansammlung in ganz China ist, aber ich haette nicht gedacht, dass jeder nur wegen den Tempeln hier hin faehrt. Ich wollte doch eigentlich wandern gehen. Aber da war ich anscheinend die einzige. Und meine Fragen nach dem Weg wurde mit unverstaendniss begegnet.

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Wutai Shan

A travel blog entry by jkloppenburg

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... waarna de vader trots een foto maakte. Toen ik vervolgens op de trein stapte werd dit alleen nog erger omdat er alleen Chinezen in zaten.Ze spraken me aan waarop ik heel behendig een groot vraagteken op mijn gezicht uitdrukte. Ik pakte mijn Lonely Planet erbij en begon willekeurig wat zinnetjes in Chinees op te lezen. Ze corrigeerden me waar nodig (en dat was veel nodig) en stelden zich voor. Ik had een kaartje voor een zitplaats maar de Chinezen puilden aan alle kanten de trein ...

Holy mountain

A travel blog entry by gearoids

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... temples on the hills to get some views but thought better of it due to the rain and clouds that were ruining visibility.  We wandered around the big temples, watching the pilgrims make offerings and say prayers before walking back to the bus station to take a bus to Taiyuan.  En route didn't the old lady in front of us decide that now would be a good time to empty the contents of her stomach onto the bus floor. At least she cleaned it up but she spent the rest of the ...

Homecoming

A travel blog entry by teamroman

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... were waiting for us. They claimed to recognize my mom right away, that she looked like her mother and me, well I'm the inexplicably big American daughter!  The surroundings are beautiful: lush green mountains all around, agricultural, and then this little hamlet of homes all built together. We were led down a narrow path between houses and finally arrived. My grandparents left this house in 1948 and Sue and her 3 kids lived there until 1985. I could tell they had taken great care ...

The heavenly mountains that go into the sky

A travel blog entry by jathomaz

... to visit the temple. So, after we reached the end of the ride, we still had a few flights of stairs to climb before we were at the shrine. Finally, though, we were there at the summit of the mountain. There were more shrine adornments, pagadoes, incense burners, prayer wheels, Buddhas, and of course, food. One interesting thing that I had not seen before was the strings of locks; I ...