Gorden Bay Great Hotel Taiyuan

... insisted that everyone take off their shoes on entry! So we lay on our sides enveloped in smelly feet odour! Pleasant! In fairness, it was cosy and warm though! The journey passed uneventfully. A toilet stop, a cheesy kung fu movie and some snoring..... Until....<br><br>The Bus pulled up to the side of the road, a few got out. Then the bus driver decided he'd have a nap. He had a ciggarette, climbed into one of the bunks and fell asleep. For about five hours ...

Z Wutaishanu jsme vyjeli autobusem v 8:10. Cesta do Taiyuanu trvala asi 4 hodiny, vetsina osazenstva ji prospalo - i kdyz personal autobusu se to snazil narusit poustenim nejake cinske superstar neuveritelne nahlas. <br><br>Jedna zastavka na benzinove pumpe. Zacina se zdat, ze toalety na benzinkach budou hlavnimi adepty na cenu "Zachod Julie Hubenakove". Hlavne devcata si porad nemuzou zvyknout na vykonavani potreby pred zraky ostatnich Cinanek ve fronte. O zapachu ani nemluve ...

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... She had an entourage of people with her and we loaded on to a mini tour bus. We drove straight to the Jinci hotel, which is super nice hotel near the jinci temple. <br><br>Our room was gorgeous and it came with free slippers it also had a great view. About 10 minutes after being there we saw a rainbow, that's the second one in the last three days. Again, there was no rain! I'm not really sure what's up with that. Maybe they do this ...

We get dropped off at the Qingxu service station at 2:30am. There's a 24hr convenient store, we find a row of plastic seats and tries to make it until the sun comes up. We have been on the road nonstop for 18 hours, have to wait 7 more hours before we can find a bed.

... it had rained earlier it was just a heavy fog. To get to the dam you must go into the mountains. I'm not sure of the elevation but it is about an hour drive. Near the end the bus goes through 5 tunnels, one of which is over 2 miles long. The tour takes you first to a point overlooking the dam at which time we could barely see across the dam. The 2nd stop is just under the top of the dam which gives the ...

... slum vcetne spinavych deti, smecek divokych psu prohrabavajicich odpadky a vubec. Kolem proteka ricka, a vzhledem k suchemu podnebi (prselo naposled nekdy pred dvema mesici), tece v rece uzky prouzek neceho, co ma mlecne zelenou barvu a smrdi to na sto metru. Park kolem pagod je docela pekny, ale ta cesta za to nestala, krome toho klaster okolo pagod byl stejne zavreny a vstupne podle vseho 30 yuanu na osobu. To je dalsi problem Taiyuanu, vstupy, kdyz uz je na co ...

... On our third day in Xian, we headed out of town once again to the Panda Rescue Center. Here they bring animals, especially pandas, that are discovered suffering in the wild and nurse them back to health. One panda at the center even had to have its left paw cut off because it had been so badly mangled during a fight with other pandas in the wild. Without this center this panda probably wouldn't have survived. The ...

... Bartering is a must and after losing a tenner you get the hang of it rather quick. Visited the great wall(pics on www.travelpod.com/members/mothmanstrave ls) and had to wait about half a day for the American version of posh and becks who decided to go on a trek up mountains in Jeans and shoes(i`m not bitter about the whole thing but they almost made me miss spurs getting beat 3-0 by Liverpool), also having to wait for the guard on the wall to go away as we ...

... at this noodle place, it was nuts!!! so the yugang grottoes were are first stop, and they are these caves and small temples that have amazing budda statues and carvings in them, they date back to 450a.d. and some are still in very good condition, also some of the caves are very large and you can walk around in them, but it gets very dark and sort of scary, so i wasnt too excited to venture far back. but the budda's were huge, and some of them have jewel stone ...