Hubin Hotel In Mountaion Wutai Wutaishan

Wutaishan was one of our greatest disasters to date.Hee and there's been a few. I booked a hostel which gave directions to Wutaishan bus station but was in fact in Nanning- a whole other provence. Oops.
Pretty place, once we'd finally checked into somewhere in our price range. It was the coldest place I've ever been. The water in the river had frozen solid! We had pot noodles in bed and tried some rice wine, (evil smelling stuff) and quickly got on a bus out of there!
Love Lucy xxx

... and people taking pictures!

When we reached Datong we caught the bus to our hotel and checked in. Because there is no hostels in Datong we had to book a proper hotel for once. This turned out to be a 4 star luxury business hotel, not bad for £12 a night!!! We actually had a private bathroom with a toilet instead of a squat, toilet roll, bath, tv, air con, mini bar and even comlimentary toothbrushes!! We hadn't ...

... uzkosti, jsme si stopli dalsi nakladacek s delniky, kteri se vraceli z celodenni sichty. Tentokrate se o cenu smlouvalo uz na zacatku a nakonec jsme se dohodli na Y40 za odvoz k autobusu. Cesta byla hrbolata a vsechny nas boleli zadecky a zadicka. Po vystoupeni na cili, jsme slavnostne zjistili, ze nejsme u autobusu, ale asi 8km od cile. Snazili jsme se s delniky usmlouvat jest dalsi svezeni, ale tvarili se, ze je prilis daleko a chteli opet Y40 ...

... ve smyslu, ze jsou jejich ceny a nase ceny. A ja ji odpovidam cesky "ceny sou pro vsechny stejny holcicko". Do bitky vstupuje Jenda, ktery mezitim prijel autem, ze preci nejake ubytovani sehnali. Davame dohromady 70yenu. Pokladame je na pult a zdrhame i s krosnami.

story3: zivot je jen hodinovy hotel
Nastupujeme do auta. ( jedna z pobocnic stare servirky po nas jeste hazi nejaky papirek)
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... a etage pour les cultiver. Vraiment beau. Le truc moins le fun de ce voyge de bus, c'est que les chinois ne se genent pas pour fumer en milieu clos, incluant bus, taxi, resto, hotel. Et bordel qu'il y a beaucoup de chinois fumeurs, ils fument tous.

Et etrangement, ils ne tolerent pas leur propre moyens de transport. Depuis Datong, on a vu au moins 4 chinois etre malade dans le bus, c'est un peu repugnant. C'est peut-etre la cigarette + charbon + leur facon de conduire un en ...

Woke up in a hotel with no electricity (see we do slum it sometimes!) and headed to the...
JUST WATCHED SOMEONE SPIT DOWN THE SIDE OF A CHAIR IN THE INTERNET SHOP - GROSS

Next we had a 3 hour coach journey and met some more nice locals, we were on our way to one of the most holly spots in China with more than 52 temples spread across the Wu Tai Shaun mountain range - it was time to look at ...

... clean air was most welcome. Especially given the state of the air around the Chinese cities. Heading away from the town, I found what looked like a walking path and set off with no real destination in mind. As it turned out, it wasn't so much a walking path as animal tracks that took me up a mountain. That sorted the question of where I was going, then. Upwards. I walked for several hours, seeing a new peak within reach every time I got to what I had ...

... having none of it and it seemed I would survive another day of Beijing train travel. Only surprise to come was being awoken from a light, seated sleep by something being dropped on me, and turning my head to find...the baby, grinning, and somehow dropped by dad from two seats over to land rudely on my shoulder/back. Dad was laughing, baby was happy, mom, across the aisle, not pleased AT ALL. Other than that, once in Datong it was a day of amazing sights ...

Before we left Xi'an I was able to take in the Banpo Neolithic village - described by my hostelmate Ric as "not so much closed as abandoned". He was right. I don't regret going - they had great artefacts like 6000 year old bone fish hooks - but I'm glad I didn't pay much to get in. The actual dig site is closed for restoration, probably in anticipation of the Beijing 2008 Olympics. One of the best things I've done in China so far was ride a bicycle around the ...

... on or something. To the left of the monastery is a long snaking stairway with the middle having a dragon's head where people can walk through the mouth to view the other side of the canyon, kind of like walking "through the dragon's belly". We have to wait to walk through the monastery and once we get inside you realize that a thousand other people are inside at the same moment and you cant help but wonder how this old place can hold all the ...