Park Boyue Yinchuan

... armady, kteri prohlasili, ze se vec nejak vyresi a vzali nas k sobe do mistnosti. Tak se tady v Cine totiz pije, at je to cajovna ci nocni bar. Podnik je rozdelen do vetsiho ci mensiho poctu salonku, kde se v soukromi spolecnost oddava svym radovankam, skryta pred zrakem vsudypritomnych kamer. V karaoke baru je navic umistena televize s mikrofonem, do ktereho zpivaji manzelky vojaku - alespon tak to vypadalo u nas :-)<br>Chvili pote, co ...

Cestou do Yinchuan jsme na tvrdych sedacich luzkach vystridali snad vsechny joginske polohy, ktere byli mozne, abychom nemeli tak otlacene zadecky. Adele dal na chvili pod nos sve nozky neznamy cinan. Jejich puch k ni dolehl i pres rymu, kterou ma.<br><br>Dorazili jsme rano cca v 8hod.cesta Landzhou-Yinchuan stala v sedicich tvrdych luzkach Y46. V Yinchuan jsme hledali spojeni do Chengdu na dalsi dny. Vse bylo ale nenavratne obsazene. Zaciname uvazovat o ...

... very funny experience. it takes skills to master peeing on a hole. hahhaa. it really does.<br><br>so we arrive to the place that will be our home for the next 2 months. Our apartment is a mixture between modern and 60's and 80's furniture style. quite original I have to say. But then we got invited to our landlord's place... and this is a funny story. our landlords are a young chinese couple who speak a few words of English ...

... of the Xi Xia life and culture. Dan and I end up waiting a few minutes for him to finish and chuckling about the strangeness of the situation. The tombs are billed as Chinese pyramids, and do look a little like the minor pyramids surrounding the famous Egyptian Giza ones. Their function is different, though. While the Egyptian pyramids hid the actual tomb below them, these yellow dirt mounds were once the foundation for seven-story towers ...

... and value. They provide valuable materials for the study of the ways of life, ideas of religion, and war, farming and husbandry, hunting, and astronomy of various ethnic minority groups in ancient China. The Helanshan Rock carvings have produced a great influence on the world, and the annual conference of the International Rock carvings Organization was convened there in October 1991.

... told that there wasn't an entrance fee. How cool I thought, from twenty Yuan down to zilch Yuan. Museum staff can be such nice, kind and considerate people! I never thought to ask myself why the admission fee had completely gone but it wasn't long before we found out. The museum was closed and being packed up as it was moving to a new building. But for ...

... Region, lies to the west of the Yellow River and to the east of Helan Mountain. The landform is divided into two main parts, the mountainous region in the west and south and the plains in the north and east. The average altitude of Yinchuan is 1,100 meters (about 3,609 feet). Lying in the central section of Ningxia Plain which is irrigated by the Yellow River ...

... area south of the Yangtze River, continues to be admired for its resplendent cultural heritage garnered from the long river of history. During the time of the Tang and Han Dynasties (206 BC - 907 AD) Ningxia was the main place for trade and transportation between the eastern and western regions of ancient China. Ruins of the Great Wall of the Ming ...

... a good sign. In the end, we were 7 hours late: I was on that stinking fecking bus for 21 hours straight. For some reason, we kept going round and around and around Hebei (the province Beijing is situated in the middle of). We came to the expressway to Beijing several times but kept turning back and I had no idea why. When we did eventually get on it, there was major traffic issues, so I can only guess there was an accident or roadworks and the driver tried to get ...

After a couple of days travelling by bus I spent the day in a modern little town in the middle of nowhere to do some laundry. Nothing special, but went out for barbeque in the evening. For lunch I ate a meat that looked like thin strips of chicken, heavily spiced and very, very chewy. Wrote down the menu entry and got it translated ...