Xincheng Hotel Hohhot

... appeared again giving another street seller a good tongue lashing and some degree of physical agggression. This time uniformed police were standing next to the trouble and to our surprise they did nothing, and to even more to our surprise it appeared HE was the senior officer in plain clothes. This was a very aggressive way to trying to diy up the posher street of vendors.<br><br>We have seen so far throughout China that the people very quickly ...

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This city Beijing is not merely amazing, awesome but incredible. The new and the old. The beautiful and mundane. NOthing but positive experiences.here. Want to finish this up and send out update but watch this entry for an update of some of my experiences here. It has reinvigorated my yen for travel.

... child after their first born (remember the one-child rule in china?), and just joked and laughed as we tried to communicate in broken english. the food wasn't bad either. except maybe for the horse milk tea. overall, the trip actually turned out pretty nice. next morning we parted from the group to head back for beijing. and wouldn't you know it? no more train tickets available. thank the Lord there were a few seats left on the bus. and now we're ...

... songs while giving us tiny glasses of Mongolian liquor to drink out of. We learned that you have to pay for the singers to come to your table; obvious our host gave us the best package. After a stop at the gift shop, our host took us to visit yurts, movable houses for the herdsmen. All of the yurts are for tourists. We ...

Hey Hey and a Big G'Day toya Rain rain go away come again some other day! That's what we sang on the way to the desert and the rain did go away. Sadly for Luo Wei and I the bloody rain chose today to be that 'other' day ...

... zigzaging like a gigantic dragon in the sea of clouds. The top of the Wall is no longer the end of the climb, as further extension of the Wall has been renovated and opened to visitors in recent years so you can continue up and down the Wall after reaching the highest watch tower, that used to be the end of the climb for visitors. Descending the Wall took ...

... uncles' in the dark as they all only knew their local dialect. How strange it is when you are way up in Inner Mongolia and you meet a group of smelly uncles who know more English than they do actual Chinese. Once again there is a good answer as to why I haven't bothered with learning Mandarin! How strange it is also that none of them spoke to me. Afraid of making mistakes before their peers I guess. By around ...

... to obtain a tourist visa for a three day visit because he would obviously "overstay [his] welcome and cause the government great burden." Tim's family took me in for dinner both nights and, while we barely could communicate, treated me wonderfully. Tim praised Granny and referred to her as his "Australian Mom." He had kept in touch with her almost weekly over the past ten years. We talked about her bravery and her sharpness. My tangle of rope stayed tight and ...

... the plane ride was miserable for them. Chengdu was pretty fun for those of us who were healthy enough to see it. We went to a shopping distrcit and guesss waht! Two other girls and I were stopped by a National Geographic film crew to be in a promotional video of Chengdu. So we had to pretend to shop at this one vendor. and we did the scene like 5 times just like we were in a movie or something. That night we went to a teahouse to see a Chinese ...