Jin Sui Hotel Hohhot

... become angry, shouting and pushing, although we have never seen it escalate beyong this level.

On the second day in H, Carol got a urine infection sp we looked for a pharmacist. Not only did we find one, but a whole street load of them, about 10 in a row opposite the hospital. It was like walking past Spanish restaurants, they were almost pushing you inside. We chose one, went in and was served by 5 assistants. The decision as to the ...

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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.

... water with the nomadic natives over and boiling stew of mongolian mutton hotpot as the the crisp northern winds shook the portable tents. BUT, our two night three day trip to inner mongolia was not exactly as we had envisioned it. technically speaking, inner mongolia is a province of china. but the lifestyle and landscape are much more like that of mongolia itself, the independent country just to the north. eunice and i set off for hohhot, the ...

... songs while giving us tiny glasses of Mongolian liquor to drink out of. We learned that you have to pay for the singers to come to your table; obvious our host gave us the best package. After a stop at the gift shop, our host took us to visit yurts, movable houses for the herdsmen. All of the yurts are for tourists. We ...

... Turtle loved it so much he wanted to come with us again. As far as museums go, for me this was my favourite. I loved the displays and the paintings behind them that gave them a more real effect. Each room was dedicated ...

... to the general negative impression people outside Mongolia hold about Khan, Genghis Khan is held dearly by Mongolians as the father of the Mongolians, a local hero who united the Mongolian ethnic groups into one country in the Ming Dynasty and let its people become self-sufficient. It was said that Khan's hometown (or where he lived) is within the ...

... height. Covering an area of around thirteen thousand square meters, it is believed to be one of the largest existing tombs of the Han Dynasty. It is located near Hei He River, 9km (5.59 miles) from Hohhot. Zhaojun was one of the four ancient belles. She was married to the King of Hun by the Han Emperor for political reasons. Zhaojun Tomb is ...

I've got a bit of quiet time here in Sydney so I'm going to write a post about the time I went to Inner Mongolia in another life wherein I was a lone traveler with long hair. You see, I'm in Sydney now, and I'm doing all these family things and eating all these family dinners and sporting a neat haircut and taking showers every day and what happened just a few weeks ago to just a few months ago seems like it never was. It has all boiled down to some photos on a ...

... of my seat, reading newspaper in half of my face and an other random chinese eat a bucket of stinky chicken feet. I felt sick drowsy. A temporal solution came when we starting singing non-chinese songs out loud. But in the end the passenger swapping became one blended memory. After 2hrs we arrived at the capital of Inner Mongolia, Hohhot. Once a buddhist frontier ...