Hua Wei Hotel Datong

... Gao temple), whilst all very ornate and artistically decorative above ground, featured the most bizzare and slightly disturbing attraction below. For some reason the former bomb shelter has been lovingly converted into a spooky representation of hell - a series of grotesque tableaux of devillish torture, with eerie glow-in-the-dark lighting and accompanied by a soundtrack of ghoulish screams and wails. Tasteful!<br>

... crabby. I offered her a piece of my orange in an attempt to make some kind of contact but she refused it. At one point she picked up my book from the table and started to examine it&#8230; I was certain she spoke no English so I wondered how she was making out reading it! She thoroughly inspected my bookmark, returned it to its proper position and placed the book back on the table without so much as a glance in my direction. Very bizarre! Because I could not ...

... me that his home is in Datong, a TWELVE hour train ride from Kaifeng. He also failed to inform me that it would take another three hours by bus to reach the small city in northern Shanxi. I was not excited to begin the journey. I hardly slept on the train and my throat felt soar and raspy by the time we got off in Taiyuan, the capital city of the province. Lu Wei hurried me to the bus station, constantly asking me if my Chinese was good enough to speak with his parents because he was ...

... makes all the time and money spent worthawhile. Facing the coal mine, this is one of the three famous grottoes in China. You could easily spend a day here (something that I dont have), admiring the delicacy and intricate carving. The details on the carvings are immaculate and coloured, a contrast from Louyang grottoes, which was built afterwards. Unfortunetly, many of the carving are damaged by the polution from the mine and ...

... dalo se. Hotel jsme nasli docela rychle, dvouluzak za osmdesat se dal, bez vlastni koupelny. V domneni, ze na spolecne koupelne bude i sprcha, jsme zaplatili a pak se nestacili divit. Hotel pamatoval lepsi casy, jako i tech par dalsich, ktere jsme navstivili, zda se, ze v Shanxi cela rada petihvezdickovych hotelu zkrachovala a par drobnymi architektonickymi upravami byla zmenena na neco jako hostel. Zmeny probihaly predevsim odstranenim cehokoliv cennejsiho z pokoju, jako ...

The Great Wall was a fun experience. I went on a 8 km (5 mile) walk along a section of the wall that has not been extensively repaired. It actually a pretty tough hike. I had heard of a marathon that you could run on the Great Wall but it would have to be on a renovated section. There was no way you could do it on this area. It was very steep in some sections and you had to practically climb in a spot or two. Definetely not ...

After Datong our original plan was to go direct by train to Xian but we were told not a hope due to the public holiday called national week which basically meant almost the whole o china was on the move. Plan B was to bus it to a little town called Pingyao which was well recommended by the guide books, stay there for a couple o nights and ...

Day 1: Datong (this is all written retrospectively...) It was an early morning waiting for our bus for the first of 4 days of our trip to Datong and Inner Mongolia. Waiting outside at 5:30am, the way the sky looked and the air felt suddenly reminded me of the Twinkie Walks we used to take a decade ago in Vancouver! As people started to arrive and get checked in, we began to realize that our "maximum 30 people" tour had somehow ...

http://www.greatwall-alternative.com/Ji mingYi.htm JIMINGYI Travel notes - The dak thousand years ago. The morning wind in the west small town - sand city cooled my face as I stepped down the train , the wind is light and comfortablely soothe every inch of my skin , hands are glad to be bathed in the cold air , blood and nerve system are all function well . I am glad that I can be out , just to be out and ...

Well hello again... On Monday I went to a place called Datong just outside of Beijing (6hours on the train) and the whole thing was rather an experience! I sat on hard seat for those in the know, and much to my joy I'd be on the train for 30mins before a little boy chucked up all over the floor next to me... nice! Anyway made it to Datong and initially wondered what the hell I was doing there... couldn't see ...