Home Inn (Taiyuan Tongluowan Square)

... crowd has gathered, someone will cry "Taiyuan" and the crowd will ooh and ahh in a "Oh you mean Taiyuan, sure you should have said" kind of way!

Ticket successfully in hand, we followed our Bus Lady across the road to our sleeper. (She had the most beautiful boots) The bus was filled with the tiniest bunk beds you've ever seen. Just about big enough for a short leprechaun to lie on his side and curl up his feet. (mild exaggeration only)

The bus ...

Z Wutaishanu jsme vyjeli autobusem v 8:10. Cesta do Taiyuanu trvala asi 4 hodiny, vetsina osazenstva ji prospalo - i kdyz personal autobusu se to snazil narusit poustenim nejake cinske superstar neuveritelne nahlas.

Jedna zastavka na benzinove pumpe. Zacina se zdat, ze toalety na benzinkach budou hlavnimi adepty na cenu "Zachod Julie Hubenakove". Hlavne devcata si porad nemuzou zvyknout na vykonavani potreby pred zraky ostatnich Cinanek ve fronte. O zapachu ani nemluve ...

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... and Juliet-type love story, which ended in two young lovers dying. It was really beautiful, although it was sad to know that that story was the only story this performance hall had played since it opened and the only story it would ever perform. After dinner Mr. Cao was waiting for us and he wanted to have some more drinks. Obediently we joined him for some more wine before Jenn, thank her blessed soul, told him we were tired and ...

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.

Before arriving in Yichang my son said to keep things simple in this city. As soon as we arrived yesterday we went to the concierge and asked about a tour to the 3 gorges dam. The concierge told us that we could sign for the tour right then. We did paying our 200 yuan on the spot. The only way to see the dam is via an official tour. A little later the confcierge told us that the tour would be a chinese led ...

... jsme v Cine navstivili. Cestu sem jsme naplanovali tak nejak vseobecne v ramci cestovani po Shanxi v domeni, ze tu preci neco zajimaveho byt musi, kdyz je to hlavnismesto provincie. Neni. Mesto ma pouze dve turisticke zajimavosti, Dve pagody a chram Jinci. Chram jsme vubec nenasli (az o par dni pozdeji, kdyz jsme sem nechtene museli zavitat zase), dve pagody jsou normalni pagody. Udelali jsme si k nim vylet, nicmene cesta vede pres regulerni slum na vychodnim okraji ...

... Pizza Hut here! The pizzas and smoothes are divine, and we've already eaten there three times in less than five days!! (Sorry Sean! haha - we know how much you like Pizza Hut!) In Xian we saw four extraordinary tourist attractions: the tall walls circumventing part of Xian, the Terracotta Warriors, the Panda Rescue Center and Mount Hua Shan. On our first day after arriving on the train into Xian, we headed up onto the ...

... if this was a scam to get us dumb westerners to play, but it looked extremely easy to win. i was shouting the right answers 'san ge beans!' 'liang ge beans' and watching while the old women would blatantly cheat, i was so tempted to join but that was probably the whole ploy. those dumb guys who were losing loads were probably in on it... that passed a few hours anyway. after that we headed to the train station to catch our 5.45 train to xi'an. we'd arrive the next morning at 9am....

... and I have a lot of skill and they don't really know the rules or skills involved...then every time I beat them or score, which I should most of the time because of my familiarity and skill, celebrate like I just won some major event! It's kind of annoying and I don't really know if they're happy just to win or if it's the fact that they beat a foreigner...the Chinese really seem to like to challenge foreigners - I think it must be some self-confidence ...