Huashan Financial Hotel Shanxi

My God!!
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That was the funniest and oddest bus I've ever been on! Firstly, It took forever to actually book at ticket! The trains were completely booked out so we dragged our backpacks to the bus station. At the station it took the usual amount of repeating and hand gesturing to get a ticket!

"Taiyuan?" "TAIyuan" "TaiYuan"

Even if you know the name of your destination there's no way in the world you'll pronounce it right. Eventually,once a ...

... 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.

... 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.

... to see the small baijiu glasses from the last time we had dinner with Ms. Niu. Luckily Mr. Bai was drinking wine and offered us wine instead of that vile grain alcohol. Dinner was a very long, but interesting 4 course meal that also came with about 15 other dishes that circled around on a lazy susan. Again there was some serious over ordering, but I think that is tradition when you are entertaining guests. Mr. Bai was clearly ...

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.

... we would come to her house for dinner. We said yes and she wrote the place to meet in chinese. At 7pm we hopped in a cab then waited at the place until she arrived. She said that she had gotten a call to go back to the gorge after she left us and it was raining with no visibility. She made us a dinner which was fun to share in her small place. I'll blog more about this later. For now it is time to catch a flight.

Hey Blog-Dogs!!! So, we've been in Xian for four nights now and today we are moving down to Chongqing via train (let's hope this train is better than the last! We bought tickets for a hard sleeper this time rather than a hard seat). Xian has been a fantastic city to visit; the people are friendly, and they definately spit less than the people in Beijing. It will be sad to leave this city, especially since they have the ...

Xian was hectic and the smog worse than Beijing, which made navigating by the 2 major landmarks , Bell Tower and Drum Tower tricky. The Muslim quarter is a must to check out, full of colour, noise and smells in a maze of little streets that run off from the main road through. Ate steemed dumplings untill we were stuffed then walked it off. There is more fake stuff here than in Hong Kong eg North Face ...

Left Beijing about 7pm on the over night "hard sleepr" to Xian. Trading Standards would be very happy with the description, 6 hard bunks per open carriage and 13 hours of fun was had bad all, especially when going to the toliet ( Chineese style) on a moving train. As there are no doors it's tricky to sleep with people talkin, walking past or having a fag by your ...

... years ago. Somehow the place has managed to remain the same for hundreds of years which is why it's worth spending a couple of days there. It's like walking around the set of a kung-fu movie set during the Ming Dynasty. However, with little else to do here it was quickly time to head south-west to Chengdu, thankfully this time on a sleeper train.