Xishan Hotel Taiyuan

... strange events as the bus driver began to drive again! <br><br>Five minutes up the road from where we had parked for the night, we turned into a bus station. Final destination! We were there in Taiyuan!! We had spent the night parked just metres from where we had wanted to be all along!! AArg!! Lost in translation!! The crew had a grand ole laugh at my confused and angry questioning!! Free nights accomodation all the same! <br><br>Love ye lots<br>Lucy and Adele! xxx<br>

... br>Taiyuan mel byt pro nas jen prestupni stanice, ale nakonec jsme v nem stravili cele odpoledne. Taiyaun je vice nezmilionove mesto, prestavbu centra dokoncili pred 2 roky. Hlavni ulice je misty az dvanacti proudova dalnice. Nikde tu nikdy nedelaji nic maleho. Asi sem nejezdi moc turistu. Vsude na nas zirali a v obchodech se nas ani nesnazili moc natahnout, takze jsme tam vubec nesmlouvali. Zasli jsme na jidlo, do muzea umeni provnicie Shanxi a posedeli v mistnim parku.<br>

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... smart and he had some really interesting things to say about the social ramifications of having an entire country of only children and about the world economy. After dinner we headed to bed and prepared for our long day of touring.<br><br>June 13th--We woke up early and headed to the famous Jinci Buddhist Temple. On the way in we took pictures by the lions. Matt wanted a picture with the female lion and I got a picture with the ...

We get dropped off at the Qingxu service station at 2:30am. There's a 24hr convenient store, we find a row of plastic seats and tries to make it until the sun comes up. We have been on the road nonstop for 18 hours, have to wait 7 more hours before we can find a bed.

... and we should consider paying 150 yuan for a english speaking guide. Since Mike had really wanted to come here and we had made the extra moves to get here we paid the extra for the guide. Our guide's english name was Lucy, a young woman who just graduated with a degree as a tour guide. She met us at the hotel which was good since we had to change buses along the way. The weather was forecast to rain an ...

... Jenze jsme nemeli paru, kde stavi, tak sla pani s nama a zkousela nas ukecat. Coz mimo jine privedlo mou mysl k zubum. Nevim, jestli v tehle provincii jsou zubari tak drazi, nebo jestli tu na zubni peci kaslou, ale v zivote jsem nevidela tolik zkazenych zubu jako tady. Nakonec bus prijel, zastavil na krizovatce a zacal vykrikovat jmeno mesta, kam jsme chteli, tak jsme nasedli a jeli. Do Pingyao je to cca 40 kilasku, pohodicka, pekny vyhled na venkovske vesnice a tak.

... I actually liked is how the archaeologists left some of the soldiers un-reconstructed as it was a good indication as to how the warriors were intially discovered. The third pit (Pit 3), which we actually saw second, was smaller with more high-ranking officers unearthed in this section. The second pit (Pit 2) had less warriors than Pit 1, only about 1300, and much work, archaeologically, is still left to be done in ...

... ones left in existence yet they remain uncovered and several times I growled at some children who thought trying to hang from them was a great idea. Their stupid parents got the death look from me as well! But this is what happens when you have a country full of spoilt children! The temple is one hour from the city and costs 70 Yuan to enter. You catch bus number ...

... Random thoughts: Post cards and CDs: After having sent out so many postcards and some picture CDs and realizing just how much time and effort and money it takes I'm really gonna shorten my mailing list for two reasons: 1) only a very few people even let me know that they received them, which is really nice to hear b/c often the countries I send them from don't have the greatest postal systems, so its nice to ...