Inner Mongolia Hotel Hohhot

... the day walking around H and having a Mongolian Hotpot for dinner.<br>Hotpot <br>Hotpot is a large dish of stock, herbs and garlic that boils away by a heater in the centre of the table. Lamb, fish, noodles, spinach etc. are then added to be cooked, nothing like Betty's in "Corrie"!<br>Breakfast has been all Chinese style. The hotel appeared to cater for just Chinese Tourists and business people. We have not seen a knife and fork, so it has ...

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This city Beijing is not merely amazing, awesome but incredible. The new and the old. The beautiful and mundane. NOthing but positive experiences.here. Want to finish this up and send out update but watch this entry for an update of some of my experiences here. It has reinvigorated my yen for travel.

... in beijing. one more night here then we're off the Yunnan province in southwest china to do some hiking/trekking in the mountains. i know i made this short trip seem like a terrible experience, but it really wasn't. we've learned from past trips that traveling is rarely what we anticipate it to be. but that's the joy of traveling. and it forces us to be flexible... and through that we've learned that God provides rich and incredible memories regardless.

... hold a thousand diners. We reserved a table in the very front. Half way into the lunch, the curtain on the stage in front of us drew up and we watched some Mongolian singing and dancing. Our table was next to a large loud speaker (loud enough for a thousand diners to hear!). Our host, Mr Wang started lighting up ...

Hey Hey and a Big G'Day toya Rain rain go away come again some other day! That's what we sang on the way to the desert and the rain did go away. Sadly for Luo Wei and I the bloody rain chose today to be that 'other' day ...

... blue Hada, then a girl started dancing. After that, two singers, a man and a women sang a song for each of us and brought a cup of wine to each of us. We got a big kick out of watching Joseph holding out very gratefully by taking the bow, taking a sip of the wine! They let Joseph hold one of traditional Mongolian instrument, called Horsehead Violin--a lot of ...

... Little Turtle has taken to Luo Wei like a sister he has known for years. It is times like these that make travel even more special than what it already is! Beers N Noodles toya.....shane _______________________________________ __________________ The soundtrack to this entry was by Collective Soul.. The album was 'The Best Of: 1994 to 2001 ...

... lot more firm and at times not that nice to people when I'm dealing in Chinese...which I kind of feel bad about, but I also am happy. Though there's racism and ignorance in America, people seem more ready to make fun of me, try to cheat me, or hate me for no reason because I'm not fluent and I still "look like one of them." Now I know that there's at least one place in the world where I'm seen as (semi-)tough! May come in handy if relations worsen towards the Olympics... I'll post pictures soon!

... bargaining. I got a feeling that Hohhot was a very sleazy, dirty town. Just like the feeling of chaos I mentioned earlier I never remember feeling that way about any other Chinese city I have visited. Hohhot. Over & out The next day we took it easy and managed to extend our checkout time until 7pm giving us a place of refuge for most of the day. With our last few Chinese Yuan in our pockets we ventured out in the afternoon for more of Mammas ...