Xintai Hotel Pingyao

... the Qing dynasty.<br><br>I found out that my cousin needed some planning (what's that?)<br>for the trip and preferably hotel rooms rather than dorms. Meaning I had to raise a bit my<br>standards as a backpacker... We spent 2 night here and went visit Grace Vineyard, 2 hours from Pingyao, where I tasted one of China's best wine. <br><br><br>

Des nouvelles de Pingyao! On a toujours pas access a facebook... Pour ceux qui lisent nos nouvelles par la, cliquez sur le lien pour voir les nouvelles photos:<br><br>http://www.travelpod.com /travel-blog-entries/sylvainboisse/1/12 47488666/tpod.html<br><br>Super belle ville, les centre historique est impec (dans le sens architectural pcq ca demeure quand meme un peu sale), tous les buildings ici ont plus de 300 ans, certains meme vieux de ...

... Beijing was a nice place to visit but you wouldn't want to stay there long. I was relieved to be getting on the train to Pingyao.........<br><br>Nigel: So we boarded the night train ready to go down to Pingyao. The train cost about 17 pound which was cheap as it was also our accomadation for the night aswell. When we got onto the train we had great difficulty on getting on the bed, as we had the top bed of a set of 3, we had to ...

... hervorragenden Nudeln und Dumplings probiert. <br><br>Die Leute in unserem Hostel waren dann auch sehr angenehm, der Manager sehr freundlich und hilfreich (er zeigte uns sogar die Tunnel unter dem mehrere hundert Jahre alten Hostel) und so hatten wir einige sehr erholsame Tage. <br>Nach soviel Erholung sollte es dann schon bald weiter gehen auf die letzte Etappe nach Peking, wo wir noch einige Zeit verbringen werden und nur noch kurze Ausfluege in die Umgebung machen werden.<br>

... to great success now we reckon we have barginning down. It helps that we are pretty much the only tourists here at the moment as its pretty cold so they're quite desperate to sell anything. I managed to get an awesome wall hanging scroll down from 26 pounds to 7! So thats about it really, tomorrow we head off to Xi'an for some terracota warrier action which is going to be exciting. Until then, byebyes, -EE

... stop me. I had my damn City Pass and that made me special! Plus it was raining and the main south gate was way up that way and I was way down this way. It only made sense to leave via the closest gate! After a quick search down the little alley ways on both the left and right of the main buildings I found myself in familiar grounds and was surprised to find myself exiting the Theatre Hall ...

... in a crafty cigar. I went to the shop across from the bar and just said "Cigar". I was offered Malboro Lights. So I pressed on, "No - Cigar" gesturing with my hands as if it would make a difference. Amazingly this seemed to have done the trick, but something didn't seem right. Firstly, he sent one of his staff outside on what appeared to be "lookout". He then went to a top shelf in the middle of the shop and removed half a dozen or so ...

I gaar kveldkom vi oss paatoget til Pingyao med ca 3 minuttersmargin. Ikke saalurt aa ta det med ro naar man skal kjoere i rushtraffikken i Beijing kanskje... Vi kom oss paa toget, som skulle ta 6 timer, paa saakalt "hardseat". Vi sitter og lurer paa hvorvi er etter en stund, men ingen snakker engelsk, og vi proevermed vaar vanligemiming, og ordliste i guideboka. Jeg (Liv Mari) tror jeg har funnet ut at vi eri Pudong,og peker febrilsk ut av vinduet naar toget stopper, og ...

Pingyao is an old Chinese town, ringed by a Ming dynasty wall, 6km of it to be precise. Pingyao was a merchant town during the Ming and Qing dynasties. It is in fact where Chinese banking started. The houses are amazing, and some of the wealthier banking families' homes have been restored, and are now museums. You can still feel the splendor and opulence of the houses. Due to all the wealth here, armed escorts were ...

... whip-lash turning round to stare at you, but it seems a genuine 'curiosity' rather than disapproval. Weve had the odd'HELLOOOOOOOOO!!' followed by muffled giggles but its cute really, not at all malicious. :) Pingyao is so pretty, you can certainly see why its a unesco world herritage site! its straight out of a history book! Im currently wearing: knickers, thermal long johns, 2 pair of trousers, bra, thermal long sleeved vest, 2 tops, a ...