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Confucius and friends
... a good experience for me language wise, as sitting in the cheap tickets area of the train as I was is rather "up close and personal" with your fellow passengers and as such ended up in conversation with those next to and around me, which after a while gave me some confidence, a confidence which grows day by day. Of course I'm nowhere near fluent, am lucky if I understand more than 25% of what is being said to me but the fact I can get ...
Qufu
... center. This smooth pathway was known as the emperors path way. This was used solely for past emperors of china or the current presidents. They also had these little rock gardens that spoke of stereotypical China. These rocks simply sat there and had moss growing on them, which sounds a little lame but they were really cool! Another garden that they had had this tree which was being supported by a metal brace as ...
A very long train journey, a hotel & Pizza hut!
... of the aisle. Most of the rest of the group were behind us. Thank god for my Kindle and iPod. After reading for a while I spent most of the journey with my head down on my rucksack and my ears in. The chinese have no sense of personal space and just push, shove and squeeze in any where they can. I could face sitting up staring into peoples bodies so kept my head down. Grant moved to the aisle seat and at one point there were so many chinese around us we couldn't ...
Confuscious say...
... We met our next tour guide Nikki who took us to the local night market where we sampled a range of local food although we passed on the dogs head. We also spotted our first pair of chinese split trousers, which all babies wear instead of nappies. Basically they open the flap and pee and poo everywhere.
A day of confuscious discovery followed as we visited his temple, mansion, tomb and cemetery. A night of Koeran BBQ yum yum!
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All things Confucius
... cuisine (Yes, there are special Confucian dishes which I thought was pretty interesting.) and I learned that Confucian vegetarian dishes are the same as the traditional Chinese ones that I enjoyed on top of the mountain; Boiled cabbage. Lots and lots of boiled cabbage. But in spite of the limited selection I never got hungry. Our tour guide was so great. He kept a constant supply snickers bars with him so food was never too much of a problem.
After lunch we went ...


