Hua Yuan Hotel Taiyuan

... we slept in our bus, going nowhere! <br><br>His alarm went off around six in the morning and he roused a few others from their sleep! Simultaneously, a row of taxis joined the bus. One by one the taxi drivers hopped out! (Oh God! What's going on here??) They each took a bag from the bus and once again disappeared. Some of the helpers jumped into a passing white van. And a strange old man passed the bus, nonchalant, but walkin backwards up the road. We shrugged off ...

... br>Taiyuan mel byt pro nas jen prestupni stanice, ale nakonec jsme v nem stravili cele odpoledne. Taiyaun je vice nezmilionove mesto, prestavbu centra dokoncili pred 2 roky. Hlavni ulice je misty az dvanacti proudova dalnice. Nikde tu nikdy nedelaji nic maleho. Asi sem nejezdi moc turistu. Vsude na nas zirali a v obchodech se nas ani nesnazili moc natahnout, takze jsme tam vubec nesmlouvali. Zasli jsme na jidlo, do muzea umeni provnicie Shanxi a posedeli v mistnim parku.<br>

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... to the water, which is the first time I have seen that. You can wash your hands in the water, which is supposed to be from the mountains and very clean. It has sacred powers. It was really funny how many people stared at us. Lots of people wanted pictures with Matt and I. I'm not really sure why they wanted them, but we would catch people taking sneak pictures of us or they would just ask us outright <br><br>After the temple we went ...

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.

... and we should consider paying 150 yuan for a english speaking guide. Since Mike had really wanted to come here and we had made the extra moves to get here we paid the extra for the guide. Our guide's english name was Lucy, a young woman who just graduated with a degree as a tour guide. She met us at the hotel which was good since we had to change buses along the way. The weather was forecast to rain an ...

... o studentsky listek se nam vysmali. Inu co se da delat. Dvorec je fajn, mame hromadu fotek a pevne rozhodnuti si taky jeden postavit :) Cestou zpatky jsme jen tak prosli trh, hromady suvenyru, ovsme kvalitativne na mnohem vyssi urovni nez jinde, no nicmene prachy nejsou, tak jsme si koupili susneky a sli jsme. Cestou zpatky me odchytla mistni dohazovacka kdeceho, nejdriv ubytovani, pak tago. Jenze cena se mi nezdala a pak taky jet v cizim aute nekam kdovikam, radsi ...

... upon marching up the hundreds of steps, I was thankful I hadn't donned anything warmer. One of the first things we noticed along our hike was that there were vendors selling locks, and that these locks, along with bright red ribbons, had been affixed to the metal-linked chains that served as handrails along the trails. Interested, we asked two girls from Singapore - who spoke English and were on our tour - what was the ...

... as well, two five a side games and one eleven a side, all being as equally entertaining as the other. One involving the goalkeeper i was playing for getting knocked out by an angry chinaman and a world record was set by myself by getting two yellow cards in the first 35 mins of a very important game(11 a side). We won 3-0 anyway so wasn`t too bad. i`m onto plan c now which i decided to write out and i have decided to change again!. I am now in a place called ...

... and these old men came up to the car, and all of the sudden these two guys with prostitutes drove up to see if we were interested, it was the funniest thing ever, our driver thought we were all crazy bc we were laughing for like an hour after that. wherever we went, we attracted crowds of people, the places we went are more for chinese tourist than foriegners, and sam and cameron are both 6'5, so imagine them and seven other americans, ofcourse we drew a ...