Jieteman International Club 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 ...

How to learn Chinese is a frequently asked question. Occasionally, people would like to find a tutor to help them learn Chinese. Actually, in modern times with fast development of internet, online mandarin Chinese seems more ...

... She had an entourage of people with her and we loaded on to a mini tour bus. We drove straight to the Jinci hotel, which is super nice hotel near the jinci temple.

Our room was gorgeous and it came with free slippers it also had a great view. About 10 minutes after being there we saw a rainbow, that's the second one in the last three days. Again, there was no rain! I'm not really sure what's up with that. Maybe they do this ...

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 show us one. We told her we'd like to buy her lunch and she said ok. It was nice to have her along as she explained about the area specialty Chongdong fish. Unfortunately it cost 240 yuan so we got a different fish but cooked the same way for 40 yuan. You ask what kind of fish for 240? Catfish. Keep in mind the exchange rate is about 6.5 yuan to $1.00 After a good and not expensive lunch Lucy asked ...

... jsme v Cine navstivili. Cestu sem jsme naplanovali tak nejak vseobecne v ramci cestovani po Shanxi v domeni, ze tu preci neco zajimaveho byt musi, kdyz je to hlavnismesto provincie. Neni. Mesto ma pouze dve turisticke zajimavosti, Dve pagody a chram Jinci. Chram jsme vubec nenasli (az o par dni pozdeji, kdyz jsme sem nechtene museli zavitat zase), dve pagody jsou normalni pagody. Udelali jsme si k nim vylet, nicmene cesta vede pres regulerni slum na vychodnim okraji ...

... On our third day in Xian, we headed out of town once again to the Panda Rescue Center. Here they bring animals, especially pandas, that are discovered suffering in the wild and nurse them back to health. One panda at the center even had to have its left paw cut off because it had been so badly mangled during a fight with other pandas in the wild. Without this center this panda probably wouldn't have survived. The ...

... more of it. At traffic lights, the train station etc you will be attacked by begger children. Don't feel sorry for them and give them a thing. They are mostly part of a group of children that have been trained by adults to latch onto you and continue latching until you give them money, not for food but to get them to leave you alone. Lurking around the corner not ...

... say they're Chinese speaks volumes. Traveling alone: Like most things, it has its good and bad points. Obviously its more fun traveling with others - its more social in one aspect, its more economical b/c you can share room and taxi costs, it's nice to not always have to decide what to do and sometimes just follow, etc. On the other hand, I believe you definitely meet more people traveling alone and I also believe ...