Qinjin Hotel Tianshui
No.1 Yingbin Rd. Tianshui, Gansu, China
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Culture Shock? So over it.
Which is a damn good thing because other wise I would have lost my mind on this trip. Saturday and Sunday I didn't see a single white person outside of my group of friends. What?! (As Ariel would say)
It is crazy how mono-ethnic these places are once you leave the big cities. Like I know some of those people had never seen white skin in real life before. So the group was ten white kids and one Vietnamese girl who is very short and ...
Maijishan and Immortals' Cliff
I had a lovely day today, even though it started off less than blissfully. This is another way of saying I woke up with stomach cramps and the runs in a room with a squattie. Ugh, why me?! Then again, having eaten dodgy meat baozi outside the bus station for breakfast in Pingliang, oily spicy noodles for dinner in Tianshui and then consumed two cups of boiled tap water before going to bed the night before, I might have been asking for it. I popped the pills I got in ...
Yes, laowai eat noodles too!
... is quite enough). I was standing in line behind a woman, who instead of looking ahead was looking at me, quite unabashedly. Indeed, I had to tell her when it was her turn because she was paying so little attention to the actual ticket window. Then after she was done, a guy zoomed in from the side and before I even knew what was going on, boom, he’d cut in and had his money in the hole at the bottom of the window. I was annoyed and I’m sure the people behind me were ...
Day trip from Xi'an to Maijishan
Breathtaking place. REALLY worth the long trip on bumpy Chinese highways, through endless tunnels. Not too many people for once (maybe the rainy weather helped a bit) and even less laowais (foreigners). Some Chinese people even wanted to take a picture together with us.
Wikipedia article about Maijishan:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maijishan_ ...
PaRappa the Rapper
... Zeppelin's "Black Dog" with my best Robert Plant voice, kinda stumbled through Lady Gaga's "Poker Face", and went out on a high note with my solo version of Justin Timberlake & Timbaland's "Sexyback". YES!
That's it. I'm now sitting in the net bar near the train station waiting for my train that departs at 3:30am for Guangzhou. I have downloaded heaps of music, watched the Lovely Bones, and emailed everyone I know and I still have a few hours.
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