Imperial Garden Hotel Taiyuan

... strange events as the bus driver began to drive again! <br><br>Five minutes up the road from where we had parked for the night, we turned into a bus station. Final destination! We were there in Taiyuan!! We had spent the night parked just metres from where we had wanted to be all along!! AArg!! Lost in translation!! The crew had a grand ole laugh at my confused and angry questioning!! Free nights accomodation all the same! <br><br>Love ye lots<br>Lucy and Adele! xxx<br>

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. <br><br>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 ...

... In some cases, taking part in a face-to-face class could be inconvenient due to scheduling, traffics, safety, etc, especially for those kids who intends to learn Chinese for Children. Online mandarin Chinese ...

... lunch where I discovered the most amazing Shanxi noodles. They are a specialty here and they are hand made, you can put tomato (i know that sounds odd for China, right?) or beef sauce on them and it is great. I think it might be my favorite food in China so far. We also had this scary soup. It has little tiny shrimps in it, can you see their eyes? <br><br>After lunch we headed to the Qiao family courtyard where the film Raising the ...

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.

... it had rained earlier it was just a heavy fog. To get to the dam you must go into the mountains. I'm not sure of the elevation but it is about an hour drive. Near the end the bus goes through 5 tunnels, one of which is over 2 miles long. The tour takes you first to a point overlooking the dam at which time we could barely see across the dam. The 2nd stop is just under the top of the dam which gives the ...

... Jenze jsme nemeli paru, kde stavi, tak sla pani s nama a zkousela nas ukecat. Coz mimo jine privedlo mou mysl k zubum. Nevim, jestli v tehle provincii jsou zubari tak drazi, nebo jestli tu na zubni peci kaslou, ale v zivote jsem nevidela tolik zkazenych zubu jako tady. Nakonec bus prijel, zastavil na krizovatce a zacal vykrikovat jmeno mesta, kam jsme chteli, tak jsme nasedli a jeli. Do Pingyao je to cca 40 kilasku, pohodicka, pekny vyhled na venkovske vesnice a tak.

... behind these locks. The idea: one buys a lock, attaches it to one of the chains on the mountain, makes a wish and then throws the key over the mountain in hopes that the mountain will grant his/her wish. Struck down by our sadness over Seamus, it was almost a blessing that the mountain was giving us the option to do something sentimental for him, especially since we couldn't be there for him during his last few ...

... after catching the train here(11 hours) and tonight i am off to Xi`an where the terracotta warriors are. Turns out a great time to travel as it is the chinese holidays and all tickets and places are booked so i might have to do a plan D,E,F,G. But as always i will keep you all posted. Have fun and don`t work too hard!! Benjamin Ps Remember to right in me guestbook on the travelpod website would be lovely to know of all your thoughts and wellwishing messages.

... and one guys even told us he had never seen americans in person before, it was nuts!!! also the drive was along a mountain ridge, and the road was icey, and our driver was crazy, he would wait till the last minute to turn, and was driving fast, i have never been so scared in a car before, even when i am driving, i was so glad when we finally made it!!! It was really late when we got to Wu Tai San, so we got the first hotel we found, 17 kuai a person, so $2.60 ...