Jinci Hotel 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 ...

... br>Taiyuan mel byt pro nas jen prestupni stanice, ale nakonec jsme v nem stravili cele odpoledne. Taiyaun je vice nezmilionove mesto, prestavbu centra dokoncili pred 2 roky. Hlavni ulice je misty az dvanacti proudova dalnice. Nikde tu nikdy nedelaji nic maleho. Asi sem nejezdi moc turistu. Vsude na nas zirali a v obchodech se nas ani nesnazili moc natahnout, takze jsme tam vubec nesmlouvali. Zasli jsme na jidlo, do muzea umeni provnicie Shanxi a posedeli v mistnim parku.

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... smart and he had some really interesting things to say about the social ramifications of having an entire country of only children and about the world economy. After dinner we headed to bed and prepared for our long day of touring.

June 13th--We woke up early and headed to the famous Jinci Buddhist Temple. On the way in we took pictures by the lions. Matt wanted a picture with the female lion and I got a picture with 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.

... of how tall it is. The third stop is from the bottom. By this time fog had lifted enough to see across. To get to the viewing spot one must walk through a park running along the river. The park was built to show materials used in the construction. A waterfall is made from stones used to show how they were cut and so forth. On the way back to the city we asked Lucy about a good place to eat and she ...

... na bus. Ten jezdi kazdou chvili, evidentne doprava po Cine na kratke vzdalenosti se odehrava autobusem, na delsi vlakem. Prekvapive i autobusova doprava je skvele organizovana, i kdyz nekdy trochu srandovne. Holt cinaci. Prvni prekvapko hned po prijezdu na misto byla rozloha dvorce, je fakt veliky :) Dalsi pak skutecnost, ze je to skutecna turisticka atrakce, more stankaru, dohazovacu ubytovani a cernych taxiku. Vstupne bylo taky trosku prekvapko, 40 za osobu, na ...

Hey Blog-Dogs!!! So, we've been in Xian for four nights now and today we are moving down to Chongqing via train (let's hope this train is better than the last! We bought tickets for a hard sleeper this time rather than a hard seat). Xian has been a fantastic city to visit; the people are friendly, and they definately spit less than the people in Beijing. It will be sad to leave this city, especially since they have the ...

... an entire city where one cannot even see the living spaces of locals, a place where secrets happen too far for the outsider to conceive of - where public life is really public, out in the rat maze of temples, ornate gates, and 'hand that grasps the beef' vendors. I really loved Pingyao, and I think it is a great place for photos and speculations. Unfortunately, every other tourist in China thinks so too.

... and made it back safely, it was a fabulous weekend, the most adventurous i have been in a long time, i am not sure if i ate anything wierd, but we ate a lot of street food so you can never be sure. everything else is going really well, my classes are good, although i have a ton of studying to do, and i am pumped about going to shao lin this weekend, and i think the great wall hike next weekend, and then maybe i will stay home soon to just relax. being out in ...