Haohai International Hotel Datong

... like MIZBALA, ATAR BNIA (A CITY AFTER EARTHQUAKE). eVEN THE TEMPLES - I suspect they re-build the many temples. Datong will be nice in 20 years - so many temples. I saw the Dragon wall - magnificent. It was time to find an hotel, as the Lonely-planet's suggestions looked really lonely. I went back to the railstation, and Gao from CITS(Chinese Intrnational Tourists - THE Chinese tourists office) "found" me and took me to their hotel.<br ...

... through so far on the trip. The quality of food had greatly deteriorated from my last trip in 2005, when I engorged myself on flavour dishes from Sichuan.<br><br>We roused ourselves long before the sun and waited for our taxi not to arrive. Luke called only to discover that he had no intentions of picking us up. We flagged down the lone taxi on the road and he agreed to take us out to the trail head at Mt. Hengshan. We zoomed past the closed ...

Do Datongu jsme dorazili po ceste nocnim luzkovym vlakem. Odjizdeli jsme z Zapadniho Pekingskeho nadrazi, coz je uplne neuveriyelne obrovsky. Vevnitr to spise pripomina letiste - waiting room, potom kontrola jizdenek a teprve vas pusti na nastupiste.<br><br>Datong je asi milionove mesto s dvemi elektrarnami, ktere zasobuji ...

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... mistni hurvinci ten chram proste zazdili, takze dovnitr se jen tak nekdo nedostane. Taky pocasi se zhorsilo, tak jsme radsi vyrazili do pratelstejsich koncin na veceri a pak hura na vlak. Jidlo byl trochu problem, ponevadz jeste porad trvaji svatky a vsechny, nami tolik oblibene vyvarovny mely zavreno. Stravovani se susenkama nas uplne nebralo, tak jsme se vydali hledat a nasli jsme skvelou domaci restauraci kde nam uvarili za lidovou cenu pul kila jiaozek, coz nam na veceri ...

... thick sheet of ice. We looked over at the cliff face and to our amazement was the Hanging Temple, it literally looks like it is clinging to the rocks by only a few tall thin wooden stilts I was a bit scared it wouldn't hold James to be honest! It was freezing so we didn't stay too long, but just long enough to walk around inside and have some lunch before we headed back to the hotel with a bad Chinese film featured on the bus tv. For dinner we went across the road ...

... our Xi'an host. Jiang quickly took us to the Aurum International Hotel and we checked into our deluxe hotel room, which was surprisingly luxurious. Our hosts had a special relationship with the hotel and got us a super deal on the room rate. The hotel is excellent, with excellent breakfast selections ...

... city's main shopping streets. Whilst walking I came across different parts of the old city wall. Like many city walls in China it had been left to the weather and had eroded over hundreds of years. Now that China has become one of the most sought after countries for traveling most of these cities have caught on and have began the process of rebuilding their walls. Luckily for me ...

... about 900 years of history. It has a height of about 67 meters, and a 30 meter long diameter at its bottom. The Pagoda appears as a five-storey structure, but in fact it has a total of nine stories with four hidden inside. The Wooden Pagoda was built with about 54 different kinds of brackets, and jointed only by the tenors and mortises without any nails or rivets at ...