Huanghe Hotel Taiyuan

... crowd has gathered, someone will cry "Taiyuan" and the crowd will ooh and ahh in a "Oh you mean Taiyuan, sure you should have said" kind of way!

Ticket successfully in hand, we followed our Bus Lady across the road to our sleeper. (She had the most beautiful boots) The bus was filled with the tiniest bunk beds you've ever seen. Just about big enough for a short leprechaun to lie on his side and curl up his feet. (mild exaggeration only)

The bus ...

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.

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 ...

... all these problems. Through internet, Native Chinese teachers can offer professional Chinese for Children and propose useful advice on how to learn Chinese. What's more, online learning also offers convenience and flexibility.

... lion. You can always tell which lion is the female because she is standing (protecting) her baby and the male is standing (protecting the world). There was also a newer sculpture built that was gigantic of some horses and important historical figures. The temple itself is made with no nails at all, It was made in 984 and then fixed up in 1102. There are dragons and scary figures that stand at the entryway. The temple was also built ...

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.

Before arriving in Yichang my son said to keep things simple in this city. As soon as we arrived yesterday we went to the concierge and asked about a tour to the 3 gorges dam. The concierge told us that we could sign for the tour right then. We did paying our 200 yuan on the spot. The only way to see the dam is via an official tour. A little later the confcierge told us that the tour would be a chinese led ...

... i kdyz jenom jednu). Pak jsme vyrazili na obhlidku. Taiyuan ma jenom jednu skutecnou zajimavost. Cca 60 km od mesta se nachazi dvorec rodiny Qiao, dum, ve kterem se tocil slavny film Vyveste cervene lucerny. Tam jsme jet proste museli. Na recepci nam poradili i spravne nadrazi, ze ktereho jet, nicmene jsme se rozhodli si vylet nechat az na dalsi den a idealne se do Taiyuanu vubec nevracet a jet rovnou do Pingyao. Pak jsme tak ruzne zabijeli cas, sli jsme navstivit ...

... in the universe!!! had suffered a series of bad seizures and tragically had to be put down. Tears were plentiful and our grief insurmountable - he had been the bestest of friends to every single member of our family, and the thought of him no longer being around, begging for food or yipping at the door or just being adorably soft, cute and cuddly, was crushing. On this day we planned a trip to Mount Hua Shan, also ...

... with their kids (Dec offered them sweets) they warm to you. I think they are still wary of westerners. Eventually we get off in Tiayuan and have a few hours to kill so we head out of the station into the city, still getting stared at, again it can be a little intimidating when you are in a square with thousands and I means thousands of Chinese most of whom are very poor carrying their stuff in rice sacks, me with my Burton backpack and ...

... all listening in but probably understanding nothing. The hard sleepers are open cabins with two sets of tripple bunks and a thin matress. Met a Chinese chap in the cabin who had just graduated in Techtonic Geology called Yang Jun Quan. His English name is Roy which is what I called him. After chatting (in English) he kindly offerred to show me some of Xi'an and invited me to stay in his dorm at the the University with his room mate