Hongkonghotel Jining

No.19 Huo Ju Road, Rencheng District Jining, Shandong, China

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Confucius and friends

A travel blog entry by czechone

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... a good experience for me language wise, as sitting in the cheap tickets area of the train as I was is rather "up close and personal" with your fellow passengers and as such ended up in conversation with those next to and around me, which after a while gave me some confidence, a confidence which grows day by day. Of course I'm nowhere near fluent, am lucky if I understand more than 25% of what is being said to me but the fact I can get ...

Some cultural experiences

A travel blog entry by bettina-on-tour

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... represented reactionary feudalist beliefs which held that the subservience of the people to the aristocracy is a part of the natural order. All such ceremonies and rites were therefore banned. Only after the 1990s, did the ceremony resume. As it is now considered a veneration of Chinese history and tradition, even Communist Party members may be
found in ...

My Pants are falling down

A travel blog entry by joaopisco

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... e horas a jogar às cartas (não consegui perceber a lógica do jogo que jogavam após cerca de 20 minutos de atenta observação) ou xadrez chinês.

(now in english)

They can't stand anymore and i can’t stand it anymore. The highlight of the day: the bargaining to get a belt to cure me from this “pants’ falling” condition. My train was at 10pm. And the city was already visited (all the combination of streets and ways through, inside the wall, ...

The left handed

A travel blog entry by joaopisco

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... main bus stations. But there were. And mine, instead of the 500 meters to get to the center of the city, it was nearly 6 km. But I kept thinking the map scale was not updated. So I walked. Before that, the 8 hour bus trip was quite nice. I had a young girl sitting next to me so I had the chance to practice my Putonghua pronunciation. And to listen to an infinite number ...

Adventures in Confucius' Home

A travel blog entry by baphometdemon

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... front of the congregation I messed my words in my poorly fitting suit. I was told to hand some flowers to Chao and kiss her. It was one of the more awkward moments in my life made easier since I would never see any of them again, and made even easier by the large feast and corpulent amounts of baijiu that followed the ceremony.
The next morning we returned to Jinghai by train via Jining and Tianjin.
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