Sheng Shi Garden Hotel Yinchuan

... se pustili do ruznych druhu masa (nakonec se ukazalo, ze i vnitrnosti), tofu atd. Jelikoz nas vsechny bolelo v krku z vsudypritomne klimatizace, rozhodli jsme se, ze konecne okusime mistni palenku Baijiou (jen Misa odolala pokuseni). A nyni se panove drzte, cena velkeho panaku byla 1 yuan, coz odpovida asi 2.70 Kc. Panska cast tedy neodolala a vypalila bacily dalsimi 2 panaky.<br><br>Po opusteni jidelny Adela zanedlouho zamirila do ...

... v protismeru do hostelu.<br><br>Hostel vede dost pohodovy chlapik, co ma psa, co se jmenuje Kaka a vypada jako Lesie (ten pes ne pan:)) z filmu "Lesie se vraci" <br><br><br>4.08.09 - <br>Byli jsme na vylete na cisarskych tombach, pravekych rytinach ve skalach a filmovem studiu.<br>Tomby : Xixia Mausoleum Yinchuan China: www.xixialing.com<br>K pohrebisti bylo tez pridano muzeum, kde byli uzitne predmety a figuryny, ktere zobrazovalizivot cisare.<br><br><br>

... we had come. the air felt immediately warm, which to me, and perhaps only to colombians, it gives the feeling of being in a small town.... but, rewinding for a moment - I forgot to mention how I was awed by the toilets in Yinchuan... I had to actually look for it, because I thought I couldn't see it. I opened the toilet's door and it was not there.. of course who would've thought in an airport you had it as a hole on the floor ...

... we wanted to pay, and three times more than we were prepared to pay. Oh well, we figure, we need some rest and it's really not that exorbitant. We check in. Originally, Yinchuan wasn't on our itinerary for this trip sampling China's Midwest. However, last year back in Foshan our friend's friend, Alan, had shown us some pictures of these beautiful golden-leaved trees growing out of the desert sand. These trees' leaves only turn their particular ...

... Sichuan quake that we all followed on the TV. This year the world was watching and helping and China promised OPEN media. It followed through but the body count was no where near the 'real' total. When the Yinchuan quake happened it was on a more massive scale and I guess we will never know the 'real total'. I read here that it was 60,000 or so but from what I've ...

... In the end we finally found the Great Mosque. Hidden well beneath walls of scaffolding lies Yinchuan's supposed great mosque. We found no way in so I guess it is closed to the public. The front two pillars and the top of the onion dome are the only things that can be seen from the Yuhuange Nanjie (Road). For future seekers of the Great Mosque here in ...

... We slowly wound our way down some back streets checking out some hotel prices and finally found ourselves standing before the Yuhuang Pavilion which is at the cross roads of Yuhuangge Jie and the city's main shopping street, Jiefang Donglie. The pavilion is very similar to a normal city Bell or Drum Tower. The entrance fee was fifteen Yuan and it pretty much allows you to ...

... or so varieties of precious bird species, such as swans, white and grey cranes, black storks, and wild geese. Shapotou on the southern rim of the Tengger Desert: There one will find the Desert Research Centre, established in 1956 to find ways of preventing the sands from encroaching onto the railways, and one of China's four singing sand dunes ...

While reading about Ningxia, I came across something on a travel website: "Ningxia has many historic sites, such as the mystic royal mausoleums of the Western Xia State. Bird Island, the magnificent Mt. Helan, the boundless deserts, and the splendid Yellow River make Ningxia a final destination for holidaymakers." I said my final gooodbyes before I left Beijing. Despite the ominous warning, I went to Ningxia, a small province to the West of Beijing to go camel trekking in the ...

... make it this far since we are drawing stares from everybody, often with their mouths open and their necks at 180 degrees. Being so far from the government influence and laws it's quite poor and there are many prostitutes around. The province is supposedly set aside for the Hui culture which is not really a culture but a religion, however there are not many Muslims until reaching the south of this small province, here there are plenty of mosques. Several minibus drivers tried ...