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Golden Gulf Hotel Linfen

Guojia Villa, Xiangyang West Road Linfen, Shanxi, China

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Claustrophobia, Coal and Pingyao…

A travel blog entry by lob123

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... guard down below. Laura asked where we could go up, and the guard just motioned that she could go up. We walked the whole wall (about 6km), and saw only 5 other people up there, we later learnt that the price to access the wall was 150 RMB (about $30), which included a ticket for every temple and museum in Pingyao…while we enjoyed the walk, the smog was insane hindering any views, and many of the attractions on top were closed. The mist/smog really created this ...

Pingyao

A travel blog entry by aarondavid

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... reconstructed. However, the rest of the city walls are still largely intact and are considered among the best-preserved ancient city walls on this scale.

Three of us arrived (Yan, myself and our friend Michael) and the weather was seasonably cold with snow making a rather picturesque setting, particularly on top of the old buildings. Most of our time was spent exploring the old roads and walls of the old city. We managed ...

Pingyao: Picture Perfect China?

A travel blog entry by whichwaynow2011

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... traffic free plus there were old buildings aplenty. Lucky for us this is one of the few cities that escaped the wrath of Mao's Cultural Revolution.

One day we did a tour out of the city to the Wang Family Courtyards which was overpriced but OK and visited a small village of Zhang Bi. It was a really sweet ancient rural village and looked just like I thought China would! The village has an underground 'castle' comprising 4km or ...

Ancient City Walls

A travel blog entry by kenanddonna2005

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... due to being over drawn or a former escort agency ... not that sort ... the type that carry big swords and do kick ass kung fu to protect the bank's silver bars as they moved them around the country. It all got very samey and a bit boring after a while. Next day we went on a tour thing to see some stuff outside of the city, including a former Wang Family Courtyard house, which was a bit like a castle but with lots of old Chinese court ...

Pingyao

A travel blog entry by shabaalavi

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... But other than that was old school like the bed and the design. We also saw this play which was quite funny now I couldn’t tell you what was being said but the performance was fun to watch and the singing was a very archaic and traditional. The next day was basically for shopping and that’s what we did. I walked along all the shops and I found a guy selling what ...