Jingding Hotel Fengzhen

... st. nl. Nejake lepsi historicke informace jsou treba na wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yungang_Gr ottoes Da se tam jet za 2.5 yuanu autobusem z centra, nebo za 100 yuanu na osobu s mistni cestovkou :) mimo mesto je moc pekny venkov a jak se zda, shenyangska ekologicka politika uz zasahla vetsi cast cinskeho uzemi (nebo naopak). Vsude zasazene stromy (hodne stromu, fakt hodne, uplne lesy z borovic a listnacu), zalesnovane vrcholky hor, taky vzduch byl o malicko lepsi. Az do ...

So, another long weekend rolled around because our students had 2 days straight of exams.  These exams happen 6 times a year where they are tested on every subject for the entire school day.  Bad for them... great for the foreign teachers because we get Thursday and Friday off!  So, Willie and I decided to take a trip during the 4 day weekend to somewhere somewhat near our city and Beijing so we could stop there on our way to fill up on some Western food to hold us over for a few months ...

... to be using diesel, so you tend to see a lot of people walking around wearing face masks and coughing a lot. Fortunately we are only here for 24 hours and the first person we met from the CITS was extremely helpful and placed us in a hotel a few hundred yards from the train station. After a few hours sleep we headed out to the Hanging Temple in Hunyuan which took a about two hours by bus journey and taxi, where we took in amazing views of the mountains which are really ...

Last night we had our first trip on an overnight train with hard seats. There are three classes of travel - soft sleeper - similar to the kupe class through Russia, hard sleeper - 2 sets of triple bunks in open compartments, and hard seats - very hard, upright bench seats. The latter were what the real Chinese took and were much cheaper so we gave it a try. Again we found we were the centre of attention - people wondered why we were ...

Arrivee a Datong a 6h du matin, nous avons directement pris nos billets pour le soir meme, destination Pingyao !! Apres un rapide petit dejeuner (nouilles au boeuf et pain chaud), nous avons direct choppe un bus pour se rendre aux grottes de Yungyang a une vingtaine de kilometres de la ville(on commence a bien se debrouiller, on galere plus pour les transports). La matinee a ete consacree a la ...

... is staying with his wife's family temporarily as his wife is spending her maternity leave with her parents. He bought the tickets for us by the time we arrived. Inside the park was groups of cave carvings depicting Buddhist figures and themes. PHOTO_ID_L=yun-gang-rock-carving-11.jpg ] We finished in ...

... to and fro around me saying Hellow! Hellow! Some even bought me ice-creams and others a fried chicken stick. Most of the time the stall/store owners wouldn't allow me to pay so I would then purchase a few little things and then run off leaving them with the children who would then race after me trying to give them back. And who says that being lost in a maze is not fun! I soon ...

... from countries including Britain, Germany, and Italy, come to see the monastery. In their words, Hanging Monastery, which mixes mechanics, aesthetics, and Buddhism, is rare. The monastery and everything it symbolizes embodies a great cultural achievement of Chinese people. The second attraction of Hanging Monastery is that it includes Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism ...

... and west walls of the cave, 33 embossed panels depict the story of Saykamuni. Caves worth special attention are No.16, 17, 18, 19, and 20. Upon Tan Yao's suggestion, five statues of Emperors Taizu, Taizong, Shizu, Gaozong, and Gaozu as Buddha express the religious theme that the Emperor is Buddha. Caves housing these statues are known as ...

... 70 km from Datong. This monastery clinging to the cliff side, has been built approximately 1.400 years ago directly on a sheer precipice. The wooden halls and structures are linked by an ingenious system of pillars, posts and footbridges. It's a very interesting monastery not only for the constructive characteristics, but also because it includes elements of the three main religions of China (Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism ...