Shanxi Jingmao Hotel Taiyuan

... crowd has gathered, someone will cry "Taiyuan" and the crowd will ooh and ahh in a "Oh you mean Taiyuan, sure you should have said" kind of way!

Ticket successfully in hand, we followed our Bus Lady across the road to our sleeper. (She had the most beautiful boots) The bus was filled with the tiniest bunk beds you've ever seen. Just about big enough for a short leprechaun to lie on his side and curl up his feet. (mild exaggeration only)

The bus ...

... 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.

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... to the water, which is the first time I have seen that. You can wash your hands in the water, which is supposed to be from the mountains and very clean. It has sacred powers. It was really funny how many people stared at us. Lots of people wanted pictures with Matt and I. I'm not really sure why they wanted them, but we would catch people taking sneak pictures of us or they would just ask us outright

After the temple we went ...

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.

... of how tall it is. The third stop is from the bottom. By this time fog had lifted enough to see across. To get to the viewing spot one must walk through a park running along the river. The park was built to show materials used in the construction. A waterfall is made from stones used to show how they were cut and so forth. On the way back to the city we asked Lucy about a good place to eat and she ...

... na bus. Ten jezdi kazdou chvili, evidentne doprava po Cine na kratke vzdalenosti se odehrava autobusem, na delsi vlakem. Prekvapive i autobusova doprava je skvele organizovana, i kdyz nekdy trochu srandovne. Holt cinaci. Prvni prekvapko hned po prijezdu na misto byla rozloha dvorce, je fakt veliky :) Dalsi pak skutecnost, ze je to skutecna turisticka atrakce, more stankaru, dohazovacu ubytovani a cernych taxiku. Vstupne bylo taky trosku prekvapko, 40 za osobu, na ...

... upon marching up the hundreds of steps, I was thankful I hadn't donned anything warmer. One of the first things we noticed along our hike was that there were vendors selling locks, and that these locks, along with bright red ribbons, had been affixed to the metal-linked chains that served as handrails along the trails. Interested, we asked two girls from Singapore - who spoke English and were on our tour - what was the ...

... Whether these statuettes are washing, sweeping or dancing, they are all sculpted in a vivid and natural way. Jinci Temple was, to a certain extent, an imperial garden. Accordingly, some three hundred tablets were inscribed for it with writings by emperors, officials and poets, and these now line a scenic path in the temple. The most famous stele was written by the ...

... teachers and I chase her around every so often and have a few dances as well. As I said there was cake there, so of course I started a cake fight that quickly deteriorated into hiding Chinese adults while the students sought to launch attacks on the foreign teachers, but the Philippine teachers and I get the best of them! A pretty fun evening and much better than chillin out at home. The next day, Christmas, I went out for hot pot with Kate and Jason and decided ...