Jiulong Holiday Datong

... buying occasion for me. Of course, the Nine Dragon Screen has nothing to do with JTTW--just something for the ladies in there to sell. They also had Kobe Bryant playing cards. <br><br>We had hotpot for dinner, something I've not had since I've been back in China. It was delicious--as good as remembered--and then headed to KTV to karaoke. For those unfamiliar, you get your own little room--thankfully, nobody but Carolynn and Hannah had to endure my singing. The English song ...

Train to Datong (6 hours) was good - hard sleeper involving a decent bench/bed. Arranging trains for next day proved fruitless upon arrival, so 2 days here it is.. Staying in a hotel near station and easily organised trips to hanging monastery and matu pagoda though. <br><br>Trip down town for food was a long one, and ending up giving up and jumping in first ...

... hair as possible while looking like a groomed Loreal lady their armpits are sprouting forests of hair. <br><br>There are 2 types of hair for men, the hair on their head grows either flat like a westerner or it just grows out, so when it is cut short their head looks uncannily like a microphone. Thus you can walk through the Chinese male population and they are either a flat-head or a microphone head.<br><br>Alex

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... with her. But, by the end of my stay we were communicating and even having a laugh at her son's extraordinarily long bathroom breaks. I hope she understood how thankful I was when I repeated in Chinese over and over again "Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!" As Lu Wei often said during our trip in his "excellent" English (it actually was quite good, but he knew a bit too much about it), "Have a try". Well, things did not look bright at first, but I'm certainly glad that I did "have a try!"

... sleep issue, the mood swings, or the lack of anything to do upon arrivals around 5 am!  But we survived and have a ton of great memories and great pictures to show for it. Datong is a city that is popularly known for the coal production.  It is not a big city and it is not know for its beauty.  It has some older tamples inside the city, but what city doesn't'... So why go there?  Honestly, there were photos in my Fodor's China guide of some caves and of a temple hanging on the side of a ...

... around it. We also saw the oldest wooden structure in China, the wooden Pagoda, which has survived 7 earthquakes and is made with no nails, and was built in 1056. We left Datong early the next day and headed to Wutai Shan. The guide book had promised us mountain scenery but we found hills, although they were very pretty and peaceful compared with the craziness of Datong. We only stayed one day, as there was not much to see except temples, and we have seen lots of those.

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... Dynasty and renovated in the Jin Dynasty (1115 - 1234). Occupying an area of 1,553 square meters (about 0.4 acres) it is one of the largest Buddha halls of the Liao period still in existence in China. In the middle of the hall, there are five sculptures standing in a row at the bottom of a lotus flower. Another twenty sculptures of gods, standing bowing to show their respect ...

... Chinese but obviously she can't speak or understand Chinese because she is a foreigner just like me. It is funny the reaction on peoples faces when she begins to blurt out questions in Chinese and tells them that she is from such and such a Chinese city. Anyhow, after a good while we finally figured out we could actually catch the bus ...