Jingfu Hotel Kaifeng
No. 1 Da Liang Road Kaifeng, Henan, 475000, China
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I fell in love with a city
... town girl at heart. I love Kaifeng. The city is tiny, encircled by its old city walls, narrow alleyways crisscrossing everywhere, groups of people at different street corners fixing bikes, playing chess, sitting with their birds, selling peanut cakes and candied hawthorns. There is life on the streets; the city has not yet been completely boxed in and compartmentalized into malls and cars – though that process is fast underway. Kaifeng is losing itself ...
Kaifeng
... park, Shangshangan Guild Hall en de tempel van Chief minister te bezoeken. De bus beviel en ook daar sprak ik met een Engelstalige Chinees. Hij ging ook naar de pagode en vergezelde mij. Zijn Engels was gebrekkig maar dit was voldoende om onze gedachten over Kaifeng te delen. Pingyao had ongetwijfeld de mooiste muren, deze in Kaifeng waren fake. Hij gaf ook aan dat de vervuiling in dit land extreem is en wees een rivier aan waar hier sprake van was. Het land ...
Take THAT Rosetta Stone + Meeting a Unicorn
... to her family so they can rebuilt the synagogue - no small feat!
I was in awe. Here was one of the last practicing members of a 1100-year old tribe, face to face with me, telling me what she's doing to restore her people's history. It's personally interesting to me, because I sometimes feel like I'm carrying a bloodline that extends back to the time of Moses, and I can't speak Hebrew, don't go to synagogue, and don't keep ...
Kaifeng
... and we find that no-one speaks any English and we spend half the day we have there trying to buy train tickets to leave. We've generally done OK with a few words and some scribbles on a bit of paper but here that doesn't get us anywhere. Its also difficult because every train in the country seems to be very booked up for the 'mid-Autumn festival' on 22nd October, when everyone seems to travel home taking little filled buns called moon ...
Kaifeng day 1
... near out hotel and met a nice man named Jason. He was a retired rickshaw driver who learned English by reading dictionaries and is now a tour guide. He intrigued us with his large collection of testimonies from people who he had given tours to. We happened to be his 599th customer. After touring the temple for almost an hour Jason offered to take us all over the city the next day for only ...
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