Golden Lake Hotel
Travel Blogs from Taining County
Kung Fu.
... in Shaolin that day.
Breakfast is always porridge. The cook often makes eggs too. I hate both, so I buy fruit at the markets in Xin Qiao.
We usually roughly do something different in Shaolin lessons every day:
Mondays - general
Tuesdays - acrobatics
Wednesdays - Sanda (fighting)
Thursdays - Forms
Fridays - Long run and Shaolin stretching
In acrobatics we do rolls and flips ...
A weekend in Taining
... tiny in Chinese standards, from what I've gathered only a 114 thousands people live within the city's borders. I could swear Xinyi was just as small as Taining, and offered a lot less for the curious tourist, yet there are over a million people living in Xinyi. Maybe I was just wrong.
Anyway, I've explored the town by foot for a few hours, walked around the river and into the ...
Training in the south of China
... anything more than a friendly relationship with him. That didn't stop him though, and he kept following me around, touching me and suggesting things in every opportunity he had. I had soon found out from the other female students that he had done the same to them when they arrived, and decided to stay as far away from him as possible..
He wasn't the only one who made me feel uncomfortable by making inappropriate suggestions, either. Maybe it was just the nature of ...
Ancient Heping Village Adventure
... famous history when it comes to education. One of Chinas oldest Classical Learning Academy's was first opened in Heping in AD926 during the Tang Dynasty by a government official named Huang Qiao. He retired from his position in ...
Train to Fujian province
... now. We saw many coal mines underway.
Long Yan is the main city in a larger area of cities and rural areas. Zhangping has the station. Total population: 3 million people.Catherine is from 1978, mother of a three-year old son. She is from Xiamen, she graduated as teacher English from Xiamen University. She is married to a pathologist in a state hospital, and has one elderly sister.
We ...