Yanbei Hotel Datong

... though a<br>website I just read recommends 90 minutes for a visit, I don't think<br>you need more than about 15 minutes to see it and photograph it. It's<br>pretty swell, and you can't feel ripped off given that it's only 10RMB<br>to enter. You can look at the photos, but it doesn't seem like much without taking<br>it all in at once. I have a new obsession with the ancient Chinese classic Journey to the West, and I bought a pack of JTTW-related playing cards in the gift shop--a rare ...

... of the precariously perched building waiting for the sun to shine down and illuminate it from the shadows of the cliffs surrounding it.<br><br>As we left the temple a group of taxi drivers told us that the bus was no longer running and we needed to procure their services. We ignored them and caught the bus as he came down the mountainside from Mt. Hengshan. We wasted little time leaving the town for Datong and then immediately continued on to Beijing.<br><br>

... some do try to lighten their hair using dyes but generally these dyes turn their hair ginger. My leg hair attracts all manner of attention on buses and trains usually resulting in lengthy conversations among all the locals from what I understand having long leg hair is a good thing and extremely interesting however I am very lucky it is not black as that would be a big no no.<br><br>Women like to grow as much ...

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... was beyond comparison. They came from visibly humble origins, but his father was always willing to be our chauffeur and his mother waited on me like I was royalty. She cooked me two wonderful lunches, washed my dirty clothes, repaired a large ripe in my athletic pants that she noticed after one of my runs and was always waiting at the front door when we came back, with a pair of rubber slippers to wear around the apartment. I think she enjoyed my animated, feeble attempts at speaking ...

... plan was to take a 10 hour train ride to a city called Datong (7:30 Thursday night- 6 am Friday morning), explore the city and the outskirts until our train left at 9:30 pm, ride the train from 9:30- 4:30am, arrive in Beijing... explore... sightsee...eat Western food, sleep, leave on a 2:00 pm train on Sunday back to Shijiazhuang.  We were really going to rough it.  We were going to sleep on trains so we didn't lose time or money in hostels.  We really didn't stop to think about the lack ...

We arrived in the beautiful (not) city of Datong and checked into a very grotty hotel. We immediately left to see the Yungang grottoes, some 1500 year-old caves that have been carved with Buddhas and other Buddhist statues. They were very interesting and some of the detail in the caves was very impressive, as were the giant Buddhas. The next day we went on a trip to see the Hanging Temple, a temple precariously balanced on a rock, which was also very impressive and had lovely ...

... children would have drawn long ago. Pictures that would soon be forgotten and never seen by their children. And so the world continues to turn! Beers N Noodles toya.....shane _______________________________________ __________________ The soundtrack ...

... period of the Ming Dynasty (1368 - 1644), the temple was divided into two parts, the Upper Huayan Monastery and the Lower Huayan Monastery and was renovated and enlarged several times to its present form. Now, the upper and lower monasteries are connected together, but each has a main hall. The main hall of the upper monastery is the Hall of Sakyamuni. It was first built in the ...

... say they don't speak English. Li Ping would laugh and ask for the same thing using the same Chinese words and they would give it to her straight away and I'd say, but that's what I said! HHHHHhhhhhmmmmm! Today the other usual happened also. When people see me they automatically think that the Chinese girl I am with can not speak Chinese. She ...