Yinchuan Hotels - Comments and Reviews

I think we've left China and ended up in Denmark or some other uber-clean, super-organized picture-perfect European city. Yinchuan's traffic stops for us as we cross at a red light. No one honks. The street has not a single, wind-blown plastic bag on it. There are no street shops, no vendors walking around to sell us anything out of a basket. It...

Hey Hey and a Big G'Day toya OK, before reading this, remember this! We all have seen the devastation of what happened in Sichuan Province this year prior to the olympics after the earthquake tore apart not only the cities and mountains but also the families. Yinchuan (where I am now) was the center of China's last massive earthquake. But this ...

Arriving in Yinchuan, I ate nearly an entire kilo of hot roast chestnuts (which are available on every corner, and very hard to resist). I inevitably felt horribly ill and while trying to walk it off we found a beautiful mosque in the middle of the city which we wandered around and waited to see if we could hear their call to prayer. Ningxia is ...

"Don't move.... he can't see you if you don't move" - Jurassic Park "My mommy said there weren't any monsters, any real ones.... but there are" - Aliens You are warned when you visit China that you will experience a massive culture shock. More so than almost anywhere else in the world, you are advised to prepare to be shocked and baffled. Not tr...

Stayed a couple of days in Chengde, where the emperor had his summer palace, probably as it's so quiet (dull), but there was a couple of great temples - one a working monastery and the other a replica of the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet, built to honour the visiting Dalai Llama. I don't think he stayed long either. Moved on to visit Datong's Ha...

After a couple of days travelling by bus I spent the day in a modern little town in the middle of nowhere to do some laundry. Nothing special, but went out for barbeque in the evening. For lunch I ate a meat that looked like thin strips of chicken, heavily spiced and very, very chewy. Wrote down the menu entry and got it translated back in the h...