Shanxi New Era Hotel Taiyuan

... we slept in our bus, going nowhere!

His alarm went off around six in the morning and he roused a few others from their sleep! Simultaneously, a row of taxis joined the bus. One by one the taxi drivers hopped out! (Oh God! What's going on here??) They each took a bag from the bus and once again disappeared. Some of the helpers jumped into a passing white van. And a strange old man passed the bus, nonchalant, but walkin backwards up the road. We shrugged off ...

... 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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... it's hard to smile all the time, have such a structured schedule, get so many pictures taken, and try and converse with people you can barely speak to (thank god Ting and Sai Wing were there as our impromptu translators). I much prefer the backpacking form of travel. I like eating in the hole-in-the-wall places, I like my own schedule, and I hate having my picture taken. But it was nice to see a different world, just for a weekend.

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 ...

... o studentsky listek se nam vysmali. Inu co se da delat. Dvorec je fajn, mame hromadu fotek a pevne rozhodnuti si taky jeden postavit :) Cestou zpatky jsme jen tak prosli trh, hromady suvenyru, ovsme kvalitativne na mnohem vyssi urovni nez jinde, no nicmene prachy nejsou, tak jsme si koupili susneky a sli jsme. Cestou zpatky me odchytla mistni dohazovacka kdeceho, nejdriv ubytovani, pak tago. Jenze cena se mi nezdala a pak taky jet v cizim aute nekam kdovikam, radsi ...

... signature. This second building also had a 360 degree theater detailing the history surrounding the Terracotta Warriors. Though the movie was in Chinese, visually it was easy enough to understand. The last three buildings were the pits in which the Terracotta Warriors were found. The first pit was by far the most impressive with thousands (I believe around 6000) of common soldiers lined up in ranks with some horses ...

... city is the Jinci Temple. Construction on this little Buddhist beauty began around AD1023 and most of the ancient buildings are made from wood. Built at the start of the Jin River the temple is not only located in a beautiful part of Taiyuan but the temple itself really is an awesome place to spend an afternoon. The first actual temple was built to worship the ...

... how **** the textbook here was). I really enjoyed it and after learning that during the next semester there were no classes to really challenge me I decided to create a new class and the school loved the idea! So this semester I'll be teaching art education to two classes. OK, so very few of you know, but I really dig art...I read about it, study it, have been to the best museums in every country I've been to, and am pretty excited about this ...