Taining Hotel
Travel Blogs from Taining County
Kung Fu.
... on different body parts, like abs, legs, shoulders etc. After half an hour everyone is really exhausted already (and hungry).
Shaolin is the style of kung Fu I'm doing. It's really physical and showy. At 6am everyday we do Qi Gong as meditation, where we hold our arms out in front of us for around 10 mintues and a bit of other funny looking stuff. Then we go for a run (one of three a day). After that we do whatever ...
A weekend in Taining
... tiny in Chinese standards, from what I've gathered only a 114 thousands people live within the city's borders. I could swear Xinyi was just as small as Taining, and offered a lot less for the curious tourist, yet there are over a million people living in Xinyi. Maybe I was just wrong.
Anyway, I've explored the town by foot for a few hours, walked around the river and into the ...
Training in the south of China
... physically, but what he was teaching was a great step backwards from what I'd been learning prior to then. He insisted on spending the first few weeks reviewing basics, which I wouldn't have minded if he had also taken the time or effort to make sure that more experienced students were also learning something. Before too long, I realized that he didn't seem to care too much about the training. He would give instructions but instead of watching and correcting us, he'd ...
Ancient Heping Village Adventure
... while other towns its age or older have been partially restored, the ‘town’ of Heping has pretty much retained is uniqueness.
It dates from the Tang Dynasty (AD618-907) when it was a simple rice farming town. ...
Train to Fujian province
... about China's One Child only policy? It was introduced 30 years ago, so did not apply to her parents, she answered. The central government is now slightly relaxing the policy because of the unbalanced population build up wit fewer young people having to care for more older Chinese. Marrying couples who are from a one-child family are allowed two babies now. She answered a lot of our first series of questions.
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