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Wutai Shan
Hehe :-) Ik wist dat ze er onvermijdelijk aan zaten te komen: de dorpjes waar ik de enige Westerse toerist zou zijn en Wutaishan is zo'n dorp. Het is een bedevaartsoord voor boedhisten en alleen het dorpje bevat al 20 tempels. Ik ben daar afgelopen zondag aangekomen en ben naar het goedkoopste hotel gegaan die in de Lonely Planet stond vermeld. Dit was "Back to Basic" dat zag ik al snel genoeg en er was dan ook welgeteld 1 persoon die ik die dagen zou aantreffen met enige ...
Holy mountain
We left Guoxiang's at 5:30 and went down to his workplace to say goodbye. A knock on the closed restaurants door brought out a girl and once we said his name a few times proceeded to fetch him for us. He was surprised to see us and a bit disappointed that we couldn't stay longer. The feeling was mutual. We left and grabbed a taxi to the bus station. We bought tickets and headed outside to grab breakfast. We sat down at a cluster of little stalls selling the little breakfast ...
Homecoming
... framed on the wall from my grandparents' life in the States in the early 80s (they had been back 30 years after leaving), we bowed three times in front of food and burned spirit money in an offering to our ancestors. Then we set off firecrackers to scare off the evil spirits. The old ladies had set everything up for this ritual. The homes all have altars set up for this purpose. My grandfather had another house that we walked through where Jeannie remembers keeping pigs. ...
The heavenly mountains that go into the sky
... bless her heart, and it was a really nice place, and not that expensive. As usual, we dumped our stuff, because of the weather, I loaned Tina some of my toppers. After we got the clothes arranged, we went out and were quick to find a restaurant to eat in. I was treated to some tea that had a dried flower in it, that "bloomed" in the hot water. My first, I believe, but certainly not ...
Monky Magic
We reached Wutai Shan via bus from a city called Taiyuan. (It doesn't have its own entry because we were only there one night and the only thing to note was that the receptionist at the hotel we stayed in misread our passports, taking down our Emergency Contact details, so that official records will show that Max Wong spent the night with Brian Watkinson. Now there's a potential Heavyweight snoring match...)
Our bus driver had a death wish. ...


