Okay I'll admit the titles are getting more and more lame. Anyway, after a fun day in the desert, we went back to the hotel for the night and got up early for a 4.5 hour bus ride to Datong. Right before the ride we visited 5 pagoda temple in Hohot, not really that exciting to be honest. Anyway the bus ride was exhausting, I couldn't imagine how ...

Hello all, its Matt writing this blog , Sasha tossed all her toys again and insisted I write something. Well, we finally managed to buy a train ticket out of beijing to the city of Datong ( which is a fingernail to the left of Beijing on the map but in reality 7 hours on a train ) . We could only get what is described as a hard seat ticket which...

After breakfast we made our way to the bus station, which our taxi couldn't take us to because of the road repair, which actually resembled what the streets would look like after a blitzkrieg. This happened to be the wrong bus station and I don't really care but I find it pretty amazing that I'm able to travel around China much easier than Chine...