Qufu Hotel
Dacheng Road Nanshou Road East Qufu, Shandong, China
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Confucius and friends
... points across and be understoood and also get the drift of what I'm being told pleases me. I have little doubt if I was here for a couple years I'd become pretty strong with the language. What I do already know has been really helpful and useful in getting directions to places, for which I've been asking for a lot and I've been hammering the chinese speaking only hotel girls with questions too.
Anyway back to the location, ...
Confucius say... what the bejiggins does he say?
... to gather from the temple and stuff was that he met a unicorn, and so did his mother before he was born... that he said some wise things... and that a red rainbow was encapsulated in a special piece of jade that told him when he was going to die... or something like that. According to Tim, Chinese unicorns are a bit different to Western unicorns (go figure) ...
Qufu
... of firecrackers in the parking lot!!!!
After our meal we began our tour of Qufu. This city is famous for having the famous Chinese philosopher Confucius (no mom it's not confusion that means something else hahahaha). This place was fantastic. The tour started just outside the main city parapets. We started off out the most recent dynasty gate. It turns out that many dynasty built gates around where ...
Confuscious temple
... 8230; hurrah!!!
After our rude awakening and disappointing day we were all very happy and I seem to be feeling better about it all. I still don't think I like China or the Chinese but am coping with it now.
Dinner was more weird Chinese food and a few things we looked. We got back about 8 and I just chilled in the dorm with my Kindle. I vaguely remember hearing someone come in about 11 but wans't really disturbed – thank god!
May be ...
All things Confucius
... to our rooms like children on Christmas morning inspecting the bathroom (complete with tub and shower curtain!), and bounced on the beds (sheets tonight!). It was very exciting. We drank our complementary water from the mini fridge while wearing the terry cloth robes we found in the closet, just because we could.
We were so exhausted and hungry after two days of hiking that after showering, getting dinner was our next priority. There was a restaurant in the hotel and I ...


