Jinjiang Inn (Datong Zhenhua Street)

... was a mistake… the area was dirty and noisy and very unappealing. I had supper that night at a busy restaurant a few blocks from the hotel… myself being the only westerner… something I'd soon get used to in China. I had a dish with fried eggplant (very good) and a fried shredded potato and green pepper dish. Don’t be fooled into thinking that you’ve eaten real Chinese food back home because it ain’t nothing like the food in ...

... We had also picked up Lu Wei's adorable seven-year-old little sister from school, and she was busy playing a hand-held video game when I awoke. That night, his father and mother took us all to "traditional northern Chinese hot pot". I had eaten hot pot before. A steaming bowl of spicy and savory broth is put in the middle of the table and you boil an assortment of meat, vegetables, tofu and noodles to wonderful perfection before dipping them into a delicious garlic-peanut sauce. The ...

... I decided to leave as soon a large number of tourists bus arrived on the parking lot...I didnt want to be "the one" who tested the strength of the foundation of the temple<br><br>If you do have time, I strongly suggested this temple for an intreguing experience. <br> <br>Two of my "Things to see in China" are now crossed. Back to Datong train station to catch my train to Xi'an for the precious terracotta warriors.<br>

... rohu (a teda jeste ze mrzlo), odpad se vyliva do kanalu na ulici, podle toho ty ulice taky vypadaji. Mistnim to nevadi, vsim se prohaneji psiska, ktera tu maji evidentne volnejsi rezim, i kdyz toulava nejsou, pac maji na krku rolnicky a vypadaji zdrave. Mezi nima behaji deti, no bozi. Mesto se s hutongy rozhodla vyporadat po svem, ale misto aby se vrhlo na model typu Pingyao, ktere centrum rekonstruovalo a vydelava na nem balik, v Datongu se rozhodli centrum zbourat a postavit ...

... face.  The tickets are really cheap so the kind of people in these seats don't have much spare money to spend on good seats or an abundance of hygiene products.   So anyway, my answer to this situation is to take a dose of Nyquil (thank you sleeping pills).  Willie doesn't.   I'm am in a semi -sleeping, semi-dreaming, semi-unconscious  state; while Willie stays wide awake counting down the minutes. We arrive in Beijing around 4:30 am.  No restaurants are open, we cannot check into our ...

... He then followed me and held my throat for a few seconds. Other passengers finally butted in and told him to stop, and little poor Joe ran away... :*( Later, after the bus ride to Hua Shan, I leaned down to investigate as to why my bag has gotten wet AGAIN in the luggage compartment. The stupid bus driver then slammed the corner of the luggage compartment's door into my head. Thankfully, the noggin held up and I just have a flesh wound. Horrible would be an understatement ...

... being carried across the room my excitement fades. All I can see is white and maybe a few patches of yellow where they have thrown in a couple of corn kernels to add colour. I want to run to the nearest station to purchase a ticket back home to the south! But hey, I'm not a southerner anymore am I! Now I'm a middlish, semi-tropical guy! After Brunch I decided it was time to visit ...

... Besides its structure the thing that really amazed me about the pagoda were the thousands of birds that constantly flew around it. It was like nothing I have ever seen before. They constantly darted here and there and never seemed to land. It was like the building was made from bird seed that somehow was kept just out of reach from all the birds. I'm not sure if it ...

... city of Datong in the Chinese province of Shanxi. They are excellent examples of rock-cut architecture and one of the three most famous ancient sculptural sites of China. The others are Longmen and Mogao. The site is located about 16 km south-west of the city, in the valley of the Shi Li river at the base of the Wuzhou Shan mountains. The ...

... imperial capital during the 5th century, and there is another major grottoes for Buddhist imagery. It's the Yungang Grottoes. The Buddha images were made slightly earlier than the Longmen Grottoes in Luoyang, but it's in even better preservation ...