Railway Hotel Taiyuan

My God!! <br>What?? <br>That was the funniest and oddest bus I've ever been on! Firstly, It took forever to actually book at ticket! The trains were completely booked out so we dragged our backpacks to the bus station. At the station it took the usual amount of repeating and hand gesturing to get a ticket!<br> <br>"Taiyuan?" "TAIyuan" "TaiYuan"<br><br>Even if you know the name of your destination there's no way in the world you'll pronounce it right. Eventually,once a ...

Z Wutaishanu jsme vyjeli autobusem v 8:10. Cesta do Taiyuanu trvala asi 4 hodiny, vetsina osazenstva ji prospalo - i kdyz personal autobusu se to snazil narusit poustenim nejake cinske superstar neuveritelne nahlas. <br><br>Jedna zastavka na benzinove pumpe. Zacina se zdat, ze toalety na benzinkach budou hlavnimi adepty na cenu "Zachod Julie Hubenakove". Hlavne devcata si porad nemuzou zvyknout na vykonavani potreby pred zraky ostatnich Cinanek ve fronte. O zapachu ani nemluve ...

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... lunch where I discovered the most amazing Shanxi noodles. They are a specialty here and they are hand made, you can put tomato (i know that sounds odd for China, right?) or beef sauce on them and it is great. I think it might be my favorite food in China so far. We also had this scary soup. It has little tiny shrimps in it, can you see their eyes? <br><br>After lunch we headed to the Qiao family courtyard where the film Raising the ...

We get dropped off at the Qingxu service station at 2:30am. There's a 24hr convenient store, we find a row of plastic seats and tries to make it until the sun comes up. We have been on the road nonstop for 18 hours, have to wait 7 more hours before we can find a bed.

... it had rained earlier it was just a heavy fog. To get to the dam you must go into the mountains. I'm not sure of the elevation but it is about an hour drive. Near the end the bus goes through 5 tunnels, one of which is over 2 miles long. The tour takes you first to a point overlooking the dam at which time we could barely see across the dam. The 2nd stop is just under the top of the dam which gives the ...

... chram (jedina vyjimka, studentske vstupne za 2 yuany), kde se mimo jine nachazi provincialni muzeum. Chram pekny, muzeum nic moc. Pak jsme vyrazili na autobusove nadrazi koupit listek, tam nam pratelsky sdelili, ze listek si muzeme koupit az v den odjezdu. Famy o tom, ze cestovani autobusem je levnejsi nez vlaky, jsou skutecne jenom famy. A studentske listky taky nemaji. Druhy den jsme se sbalili a s pevnym rozhodnutim se do Taiyuanu nikdy nevratit (haha) jsme ...

... and in ancient times was an important military town. At present, Taiyuan is one of China's heavy industrial cities and account for more than half the national coal mining output. Taiyuan also has a wealth of tourist attractions and notably among these is the Jinci Temple. This is the city's most attractive temple although the Shuangta Si (Twin ...

... Day (celebrate the est. of the CCP (chinese communist party) in 1949)... I'm too sick, but there in spirit. I went when I was here 3 years ago with my host family. There are so many people, millions upon millions who make the trip to Beijing to celebrate. It really is something to see. We leave tommorow for a 4 day trip to Shanxi Province. I'm very excited. I love traveling in China and seeing what it truly is like. I think ...

... just ignore them when they do things like this, generally using the line of 'we can't be friends with students', which is total bullsh*t. Of course this spurs others to come and now try to join our game, but we just want to shoot around, so they just hang around waiting for us to finish! In our heads we're both just repeating "Go away, go away!". I mean, they're totally harmless, but sometimes just too bothersome and direct. "I want to be your ...