Long An Hotel Shiyan

1 Shanxi Road Shiyan, Hubei, China

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Embracing The Universe

A travel blog entry by wandertrust

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... if we had known this hotel would be out of power for 7 hours in the middle of the night, we might not have booked it. The electricity didn’t prove to be too much of a problem though, as we simply retired to our beds once our lights and AC were gone, being the pampered pooches that we are.
In the real morning, we found ourselves awoken to the sound of rain slamming against the window. An unfortunate happening in an area known for its natural outdoor beauty. We ...

The True East

A travel blog entry by wandertrust

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... before aimlessly venturing into the temple grounds. There was a bus that we needed to take, seeing as we were actually still a few miles away from the temple itself. It’s good that he caught us, otherwise we would have walked for hours without arriving anywhere, and if we had even made it, still several hours of hiking ahead of us. We purchased our tickets with a student discount, boarded our bus, and began the half hour ride winding between and up the mountainous ...

Wonderous Wudang Shan - The Journey

A travel blog entry by wandertrust

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... I took a shower in the new stall for the first time, and felt myself feeling a little nostalgic about my old dorm. Part of me missed the rustic quality, the feeling of living closer to how Chinese people actually do, and a sincere understanding that there I was much more on my own. I missed the Chinese people coming in to yell at me in their 4 toned language I had no chance of understanding, the South African guy who lived down the hall and always had a piece of advice and ...

Mystical Mount Wudang

A travel blog entry by insomniatravels

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... DK) en we bezochten opnieuw dezelfde kant. Eerst naar de Prince Slope voor meer thee en schilderijen, dan terug naar het Lang Mei schrijn en Nanyan tempel die er deze keer volledig anders uitzag omwille van de regen en mist, vervolgens naar Purple Heaven Palace, een prachtige tempel waar Yuan shifu 3 jaar als monnik geleefd heeft en tenslotte naar de Tianjin brug waar ook een trainingsscene uit The Karate Kid opgenomen werd. Op de terugweg naar ...

PLEASE no more steps!!!

A travel blog entry by simon.caryn

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... knew where we were going... It was quite nice to see them all waving goodbye to us. We had our own little Chinese fan club...

So we arrived at Wudang train station. The plan was to go to Wudangshan – which if you type this into google images, you'll understand why. It looked incredible. Apparently its where Thai Chi originated and some of the Temples date back hundreds of years.Plus we wanted to do somewhere a little off the beaten track ...