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Stressing Out For Nothing
... I got to Zhengzhou I went to catch the bus and I asked at the counter showing my previous ticket from Luoyang ad they must have thought that I had bought a ticket for the return journey but I hadn't. The bus was leaving right away so I was herded onto the bus and then I sat down and thought that I would still have to do something as I didn't have a ticket. The driver and his offsider didn't understand what I was on about so I got back on the bus with my money in my hand. Then a ...
Shaolin temple part 2
... t manage to see all the places, but we got a very good impression.
One thing that surprised me the most was how commercial this place has become.
What once was an art, only to be practiced by those allowed at the temple, only to be mastered by a disciplined and devoted lifestyle full of hardship, is now one of the biggest cultural and historical 'attractions' of whole China. Shops everywhere, selling the same stuff. ...
Trip to the Shaolin temple
... the crowds inside the carriage we noticed all the seats where occupied. On these trains its possible to buy a ticket without a seat number, thus a standing place. Apparently most people buy tickets without a seat number and than take a seat that has not been taken yet. Until someone arrives with a ticket with that nominated seat on it. Than they will stand up and start looking for the next free ...
Zhengzhou to Kaifeng and Back Again!
... blotted the landscape and the sun. It was as if some bureaucrat had determined that this was a good spot for a city and everything was going according immediately to that plan. There were buses in these wide, wide streets with bus stops and people waiting for them but no other signs of life. No evidence of shops, parks, banks or other services. No life on the streets at all except passengers waiting patiently. More got off at our stop and ...
Renewing old acquaintances
... has caught on in China yet.
We happen to be in China for one of their biggest holiday festivals called the Mid Autumn Festival which this year also coincides with the Chinese National Day and tonight we are invited to a celebratory dinner held at a huge complex of restaurants built around a lake an hour's drive from Zhengzhou. After Xaio Wang becomes lost and has to turn around three times we make it to the lake which is set up with masses of ...