Yuanheng Hotel Yinchuan

... se pustili do ruznych druhu masa (nakonec se ukazalo, ze i vnitrnosti), tofu atd. Jelikoz nas vsechny bolelo v krku z vsudypritomne klimatizace, rozhodli jsme se, ze konecne okusime mistni palenku Baijiou (jen Misa odolala pokuseni). A nyni se panove drzte, cena velkeho panaku byla 1 yuan, coz odpovida asi 2.70 Kc. Panska cast tedy neodolala a vypalila bacily dalsimi 2 panaky.

Po opusteni jidelny Adela zanedlouho zamirila do ...

... jako je letadlo.

U prepazky nam s prekladanim Anglictina- Cinstina pomahal jeden kluk z Mongolska. Rekl nam, ze vypadame jako "movie stars". Ani ta odpudiva plastenka, co jsem mela na sobe, ho od tohoto tvrzeni neodradila:)

Pote nasledovala destiva pout za jedinou internetovou kavarnou v Yinchuan. Kdyz jsme kavarnu nasli tak pokracovalo hledani jedineho hostelu ve meste (Jixiang Xixia Internacional Youth Hostel) a divoka jizda v ...

... a few words. but we were able to make friends with them by drinking 3 bottles of chinese wine. I am proud to say I learned to toast in chinese - Campei!!!! and they learned to toast in English, Spanish and German!

Today we will probably go exploring the nearby sights.. we have no chinese money, no translator and we are most likely, not kidding, the only two foreigners in this city. good thing I'm not the blonde one!!

... much smaller than we thought it would be, given the importance of the religion in the region, but under construction, so maybe they are expanding it. They had a museum of a sort under the area for prayer with a lot of pictures of foreign dignitaries who had visited. Annexed to that was a big room housing two scale models of the grand mosques at Mecca and Medina. A woman was giving a tour to some Chinese tourists and by eavesdropping I managed to ...

... kick back next to the window and swear that I am the luckiest son of a &^%$# around! At half eight we met down stairs and headed across the road for a quick fix of pork and veggie filled breads. Totally awesome! I used to eat too many of these when I was living in Gansu Province. Not so good with the amount of chili they used to add to the pork especially the ...

... five or six hours walking and cabbing to here, from there and back to just around there again.. It was bloody hot and Luo Wei was still a dark red from the grasslands. What mattered was that we were together under a big happy blue sky! For all those who haven't traveled a lot or choose not to walk between sites no matter how far they are away from ...

... retains a lot of its past. You can buy almost anything you desire yet I must disagree with the Lonely Planet on one thing and sadly this one thing is a very important thing for foreign tourists. Somewhere in the LP it states that Ningxia Province is the last province that would contemplate ripping off a foreigner. Sadly from our arrival this city has chosen to place us ...

... one third of who are Hui minority people. It has a temperate continental climate of long, cold winters and short, hot summers with the temperature being lowest in January, averaging from -10C to -7C and highest in July, averaging from 17C to 24C. Annual rainfall averages from 190-700 millimeters. History Ningxia, a region as culturally rich as the ...

... Wall. They actually have bits of the Great Wall lying about the place but this one was so cool cause it wasn't reconstructed. On a very tight schedule, it was speed tourism and we ran to the Wall, took a zillion shots and ran back to the car, laughing the whole way. The Twin Pagodas were beautiful, though I got suckered into giving them money after I took part in a prayer (fool that I am) and the rock carvings were amazing. I was so impressed by just the gorge that they were ...

... bamboo cabins in the mountain, shame we'd already got a return taxi. Our trip to Sanying (Xumi Shan or "Paradise" in transliteration) and the surrounding buddhist rock carvings started with us being deposited on the side of the highway 6km from town, luckily after walking 15mins a minivan stopped for us and dropped us at a hotel. The carvings dating from the Wei dynasty 1400 years ago are mostly worn away since the rock is soft and calcaire, however those that rest are found ...