Tianshui Binguan
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Culture Shock? So over it.
Which is a damn good thing because other wise I would have lost my mind on this trip. Saturday and Sunday I didn't see a single white person outside of my group of friends. What?! (As Ariel would say)
It is crazy how mono-ethnic these places are once you leave the big cities. Like I know some of those people had never seen white skin in real life before. So the group was ten white kids and one Vietnamese girl who is very short and ...
Maijishan and Immortals' Cliff
... seem to go there).
Next stop was Immortals’ Cliff (Xian Ren Ya). I had not actually even been planning to go here but I had lots of time left so thought, why not? It was brilliant. Cliffs and trails up mountains, old temples, a lake, forest… I wandered around the trails for a good three to four hours. Long enough to make me sincerely wish that I had eaten lunch before entering the park. Oops. While I was at the 18 Rohan temple, I met a young woman who ...
Yes, laowai eat noodles too!
... It’s true. If it weren’t for all the smiles I might be taking all the staring a little worse than I have. The nicest smile was from a little girl who practiced her English on me while I played with her puppy.
That reminds me, the other day when I was in Pingliang, I was in a cab when the driver asked me what the smell was. I replied “huh?”. Then he said all of the foreigners he’d had in his taxi had the same smell and it was very strong, ...
Day trip from Xi'an to Maijishan
Breathtaking place. REALLY worth the long trip on bumpy Chinese highways, through endless tunnels. Not too many people for once (maybe the rainy weather helped a bit) and even less laowais (foreigners). Some Chinese people even wanted to take a picture together with us.
Wikipedia article about Maijishan:
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PaRappa the Rapper
... story Journey to the West, where the travelers (the main characters) are Buddhist and sometimes treat Taoists as their brothers and other times have really big problems with them. Well, we would fall into the latter category. When looking at a pantheon of gods, I asked Abby a question about them. She didn't know the answer, so she asked the Taoist priest standing right there. His putonghua was perfect, so I understood just about everything he said. "You ...
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