Sunshine Great 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 ...

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.

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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... multiple wives and hundreds of servants and could get about anything they wanted.

We left the Qiao compound and drove toward Pingyao, which is one of the oldest and best preserved walled cities. On our way there we were told Mr. Cao (Mr. Bai's friend and the provincial deputy governor of Pingyao) was going to meet us and take us to the hotel. We couldn't figure out where we were meeting him b/c they kept saying we'd meet him ...

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 ...

... slum vcetne spinavych deti, smecek divokych psu prohrabavajicich odpadky a vubec. Kolem proteka ricka, a vzhledem k suchemu podnebi (prselo naposled nekdy pred dvema mesici), tece v rece uzky prouzek neceho, co ma mlecne zelenou barvu a smrdi to na sto metru. Park kolem pagod je docela pekny, ale ta cesta za to nestala, krome toho klaster okolo pagod byl stejne zavreny a vstupne podle vseho 30 yuanu na osobu. To je dalsi problem Taiyuanu, vstupy, kdyz uz je na co ...

... have taken the ancients longer than this!! The site of the Army of Terracotta Warriors itself was awesome. There were five buildings that we went into: the first building housed two half-sized bronze chariots. The detail of these chariots was amazing, but sadly the rooms, in my opinion, were somewhat poorly lit, which made it harder the take in the entire splendor of these chariots. The second building was were we got to ...

... hmmm, must be something to do with cencorship or something, so all those coments are going unread by me at any rate, so send me an email ... posted by conor at 4:51 PM 1 comments Tuesday, July 04, 2006 Beijing Sights and scams Beijing China, 4th July 2006 So I went to loads more sights, the summer palace and the temple of heaven for example. All have the same characteristics of loads of scafolding and the great cultural renovation ...

... because they dont have a graduation ceremony like we do in the States, but they have a grad. performance with singing and dancing, a few speeches and some fireworks. Like I said, interesting but very different and less festive than a western graduation. On Thursday, my students asked me to come to the a classroom to have a small party. I was thinking it was just a quiet get-together, but when I got there the whole room was decoraed and they ...