Home Inn (Lanzhou Yongchang Road)

... about 40 percent rummikub (board game) 20 percent hearts (card game) 5 percent mahjong and the rest i couldnt tell you. It was quite a social affair and it seems that it is played everywhere in hong kong no matter how old or young etc. That went on for a couple of hours, and everyone sat around and watched wedding videos which i found a little strange but still so is eating chicken feet...

The weddings are pretty incredible to be fair (i was told these are standard weddings in ...

... po cele restauraci a zcela konsternovanemu mu prstem ukazuje na talire ostatnich hostu, co by si dala ona. A take jsme jiz dvakrat dali na doporuceni vrchniho.

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Je toho prehrsel. Zacali jsme jidlem na spejly na Pekingskem trhu s jidlem. Pokracovali jsme vyvarem s plnenymi masovymi knedlicky, ktery kdyz Adela videla, odmitla ho jist, ale nakonec se ukazalo ze chut v tomto pripade predci vizualni stranku veci. Pak uz to pokracovalo systemem padni komu ...

... many buildings looked empty. The assembly hall has Four Guardian Kings and a Wheel of Life mural, while a chapel on the left had 2 huge walls with painted macabre scenes from sky burials. (Unfortunately many of the various halls charged more for photography in addition to the entrance fee, so photos had to be limited.) There were many lovely tormas (mixed tsampa & yak butter sculptures) with painted designs (apparently destroyed each year by being given to ...

... much in memory of the expression of Christ's sadness over the fate of Jerusalem: "Jerusalem! Jerusalem! How often would I have sheltered thee under my wings, as a hen does her chicks, but thou wouldst not have it so..." The Twelve Days of Christmas is probably the most misunderstood part of the church year among Christians who are not part of liturgical church traditions. Contrary to much popular belief, these are ...

Wednesday morning began with breakfast in the hotel before 9 am. Hotel breakfast in China is much different than hotel breakfast in the US. There are no beagles, coffee, cereal, or toast. Instead, there is warm orange flavored juice, rice porridge, hard boiled eggs, noodles of some sort, dumplings, and some small bread like rolls. (I miss my cold milk and honey nut cheerios.) After breakfast a TV crew showed up and interviewed Li and ...

Hey Hey and a Big G'Day toya Mist, no more bloody mist! Mountains, villas, waterfalls, rivers, birds, monks, temples and me! Were not shrouded by a thick white gentle grandma blanket of mist! What a beautiful day it was today. The sky was so blue that you could almost swim in it. I obviously didn't leave Jigong Shan, instead I read until eleven ...

... plane, costs about $120 RT. The same trip takes 14 hours by train, cost $30. Trains carry more than 100 times the number of passengers as planes. Cable cars and inclines are common in China. You see some as tourist rides, but many are functional ways to get up the hill, like the ones that deliver tourists up to the Great Wall, which would otherwise be an all day hike, even prohibitive for most people. Mao said ...

... long from north to south, 3 kilometers wide from east to west and over 60 meters deep. It is soothing and relaxing in that it is surrounded by ranges of mountains, studded with islandsCwith the water and the sky merging in one color, and with the blown grass and the floating shadow of mountains in water. One-Ray Sky on Water Situated ...

... funny than anything, but I've learned my lesson. I'm requesting females from now on. KFC does chicken right in the minds of the Chinese. There is at least one KFC in every town of any size, and in this town of 2 million there are at least 4 that I've seen. There are no McDonald's, Pizza Huts, or any of the other foreign chains you see in the main cities, but KFC is, uh, all up in it in Lanzhou. I think I've figured it out. Chinese people ...

... were a powerful people once, and this is important to them. We insist on paying the Y20 for tickets, but she doesn't want to go in, just tees us up with the Senior English-speaking guide and her offsider. The site is quite interesting, with some delicately made timber grillwork structure, ancient trees, and a large mosque with a forest of timber columns and a large grill-work roof ventilator. The Uighur Princes were the local feudal lords under the Qing ...