Zhang Ze Business Hotel Taiyuan

... we slept in our bus, going nowhere!

His alarm went off around six in the morning and he roused a few others from their sleep! Simultaneously, a row of taxis joined the bus. One by one the taxi drivers hopped out! (Oh God! What's going on here??) They each took a bag from the bus and once again disappeared. Some of the helpers jumped into a passing white van. And a strange old man passed the bus, nonchalant, but walkin backwards up the road. We shrugged off ...

... 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.

... In some cases, taking part in a face-to-face class could be inconvenient due to scheduling, traffics, safety, etc, especially for those kids who intends to learn Chinese for Children. Online mandarin Chinese ...

... Lantern, was filmed (it's a really good movie I highly recommend it). The Qiao family was a rich merchant family that had the money to build a huge compound for themselves. A large portion of the wealth in China was in that family. Their compound had almost 300 rooms in it and they were filled with lavish gifts and decorations. The difference between the rich and the poor during this time must have been incredible. These families ...

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.

... we would come to her house for dinner. We said yes and she wrote the place to meet in chinese. At 7pm we hopped in a cab then waited at the place until she arrived. She said that she had gotten a call to go back to the gorge after she left us and it was raining with no visibility. She made us a dinner which was fun to share in her small place. I'll blog more about this later. For now it is time to catch a flight.

... v dost premrstene vysi a studentskou slevu nemaji (oni ji maji, ale s chuti vam vysvetli ze neplati pro cizince/dany typ prukazu/lidi co nejsou cinani/kdyz je venku osklivo) no proste des. Bydleni bylo taky problem. Chteli jsme tu stravit jednu noc, ale hotely tu maji dvojiho typu, bud blesarny nejhorsi za cenu Hiltonu a nebo pekne hotely, ale i ty mimo nasi cenovou kategorii. Nakonec jsme nasli hned u nadrazi docela pekny hotel za docela primerenou cenu, se snidani v ...

... was a good day for observing panda activity. The highlight was two younger pandas that kept wrestling with each other. I took tonnes of videos! The golden monkies were also hilarious to observe: they make the most ridiculous noises, and this one male had us cracking up everytime we fed it some leaves. Our fourth day in Xian was rather sad. We recieved a text message early in the morning that our dog - Seamus - the best ...

... to the Western Zhou Dynasty (11th century BC to 711 BC), when King Cheng made his younger brother Yu a leader of one of his states. Yu was an intelligent leader who devoted all his energies to making the state prosperous, so his descendants built a temple for him after his death, in order to honor his achievement. Saint Mother Hall, the oldest building in the ...

... Longshen (killer rice terraces), Hong Kong, and then the Philippines for three weeks of island hopping, fun, sun, and scuba diving. Here are a few last pictures before I begin traveling again, but I'll try to update it as I go along to different places.