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Travel Blogs from Yangquan
Pingyao - Ancient China
... 6km in circumference. We walked around the majortity of it. Your ticket also gets you into all the other sights around Pingyao including China's first bank and the city tower which gives you magnificent views over the the ancient rooftops.
Wondering around the streets and having a delicious hot chocolate at Pingyaos's Sakura cafe we jumped on to our next train to take us to Xi'an, 10 hours away.
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Yangquan Travel Guide(Shanxi China)
... Period (476BC-221BC). In the Tang Dynasty (618-907), Yangquan was exalted to a prefecture. By 1905, it had a train station to facilitate the exploitation of the mines, making the city one of the birthplaces of Shanxi's modern industry.
♦Climatic Features: It belongs to the warm temperate zone with a semi-humid continental monsoon climate, Yangquan has four clear seasons: windy and rarely rainy spring; hot and wet summer; ...
Day 18
Day 18 The day started with a bike ride around the Ancient City Walls of Xi'an, I rode for about 2 hours. Wasn't much to see but seeing the size and effort in building this Walled in City was. Next it was a small lunch and a few beers with a few games of pool before heading to the train station for an overnight trip to ...
Yang shou is freakin sweet!!
... bar is awesome. 4 of the nights were spent there. 3 of them i didnt get in till 5am. played some beer pong. was one cup away from being the ultimate champ. however i did beat jane (the owner) and so i got a champ tshirt with monkey jane on the front its awesome.
i also lost my iphone on one of the crazy night shinan****ns but luckily one of thye lads founs it in this cart we al jumped in to have a photos.
i want to write more but ...
Holiday time
... a good craic and headed to bed around 5ish.
The next day we went off in search off mud caves and hot springs, we decided to hire bikes and off we went, really funny experience, i was racing taxi's and mo-peds down the 45min or so journey on a 100 year old bike with a fixed gear but i was in my element, we got to the caves, stripped off and got taken into what i thought would be a mud bath and then hot springs, however we had to walk a good 45 mins through ...