Sanjin International Hotel Tai Taiyuan

... strange events as the bus driver began to drive again! <br><br>Five minutes up the road from where we had parked for the night, we turned into a bus station. Final destination! We were there in Taiyuan!! We had spent the night parked just metres from where we had wanted to be all along!! AArg!! Lost in translation!! The crew had a grand ole laugh at my confused and angry questioning!! Free nights accomodation all the same! <br><br>Love ye lots<br>Lucy and Adele! xxx<br>

... br>Taiyuan mel byt pro nas jen prestupni stanice, ale nakonec jsme v nem stravili cele odpoledne. Taiyaun je vice nezmilionove mesto, prestavbu centra dokoncili pred 2 roky. Hlavni ulice je misty az dvanacti proudova dalnice. Nikde tu nikdy nedelaji nic maleho. Asi sem nejezdi moc turistu. Vsude na nas zirali a v obchodech se nas ani nesnazili moc natahnout, takze jsme tam vubec nesmlouvali. Zasli jsme na jidlo, do muzea umeni provnicie Shanxi a posedeli v mistnim parku.<br>

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... hotels in America, but I've never noticed, but in China they always have a phone next to the toilet, maybe people do some important business deals while they're doing their business, I don't know. .<br><br>We had about 10 minutes to get ready for dinner, we were meeting Mr. Bai, the CEO of the corporation Ms. Niu was working for. I'm not sure why he wanted to meet with us, but we headed down for dinner. When we got to dinner we were ...

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.

... and we should consider paying 150 yuan for a english speaking guide. Since Mike had really wanted to come here and we had made the extra moves to get here we paid the extra for the guide. Our guide's english name was Lucy, a young woman who just graduated with a degree as a tour guide. She met us at the hotel which was good since we had to change buses along the way. The weather was forecast to rain an ...

... i kdyz jenom jednu). Pak jsme vyrazili na obhlidku. Taiyuan ma jenom jednu skutecnou zajimavost. Cca 60 km od mesta se nachazi dvorec rodiny Qiao, dum, ve kterem se tocil slavny film Vyveste cervene lucerny. Tam jsme jet proste museli. Na recepci nam poradili i spravne nadrazi, ze ktereho jet, nicmene jsme se rozhodli si vylet nechat az na dalsi den a idealne se do Taiyuanu vubec nevracet a jet rovnou do Pingyao. Pak jsme tak ruzne zabijeli cas, sli jsme navstivit ...

... was pleasant indeed. A particular highlight was getting to see people either flying kites or playing badminton or snapping whips to keep tops spinning in the parks below. On our second day in Xian, we headed out of town to see another one of China's most notable historical attractions: the Terracotta Warriors. Our tour guide for the day was named Jia Jia. As a tour guide she was quite entertaining: she sang a beautiful ...

... place for the olimpics and loads of domestic and western tourists. I went to see Mao in his mau-solieam in tienamen square. Love him or loath him he was a pretty important guy and now he is stuffed and mounted for everyone to queue up and file past if they want. The official party line is that Mau was 70% right and 30% wrong, Read a bit about the "great leap forward" and the "cultural revolution" to get an idea of how much that 30% covers ...

... then this woman comes up to us and tells us that it is a performing arts school and would we like to see them practice so we say ofcourse and think we are going to see five of them, ohh no the entire school comes down to the practice area and performs just for the nine of us, it was awesome!!!! they are sort of like a drum line, but chinese, and they dance and do a bit of gymnastics, it was the coolest thing i have ever seen!!! they go all around asia and ...