Fudu Hot Spring Holiday Resort Taishan

Wutaishan was one of our greatest disasters to date.Hee and there's been a few. I booked a hostel which gave directions to Wutaishan bus station but was in fact in Nanning- a whole other provence. Oops.<br>Pretty place, once we'd finally checked into somewhere in our price range. It was the coldest place I've ever been. The water in the river had frozen solid! We had pot noodles in bed and tried some rice wine, (evil smelling stuff) and quickly got on a bus out of there! <br>Love Lucy xxx<br>

... this since Lord Baggott's Secret Luxury Appartment in the Riviera... <br><br>After forcing ourselves not to hide away in the hotel room for 2 days we went out on a tour of the famous hanging temples and caves. The temples are over 2000 years old and suspended 100 meters above ground on a sheer cliff face, the caves even older full of buddhist carvings. Both of these were amazing, as you will see on the photos....<br><br>

... n.m.), vstoupili jsme do mraku a viditelnost klesla na 10m. Teplota klesla take na povazenou, obleceni nam tak tak stacilo (a nekterym ani ne). V mlze jsme se ztratili a malem minuly cilovy chram na vrcholu. Nakonec se v mlznem oparu objevil chram ve kterem jsme se opet schledali (i s nekolika Cinskymi turisty, kteri do chramu pricestovali autobusem z druhe strany hory). Misa prinesla hnusnou kouli (z Beijingu z cajovny) az na vrchol a i pres ...

hlasi se Misa z Wutaishanu, sedim prave v internetove mistnosti plne cinanu, kteri tu smazi hry.<br>Pisu male resume z poslednich dvou nasich dnu:<br><br>story1: presun Datong- Wutai<br>Diky mnoha zdrzenim dobihame na posledni chvili bus na Datonskem nadrazi. Cesta do Wutaishan je klikata a hrbolata. Coz se za chvili projevi srazkou naseho autobusu s osobnim vozem. Ridic auta si montuje poprve na svuj vuz ...

... chants gregoriens, mais version bouddhiste, vraiment fou.<br><br>Ce qui est un peu bizarre c'est que les touristes peuvent assister a la messe comme ils veulent. Et comme les chinois sont remplis de savoir vivre comme on vous l'a deja explique, ils courent partout entre les moines, prennent des photos, derangent les moines et sont completement indiscrets.<br><br>Et bon, nous on essayait d'etre vraiment discrets, mais puisqu'on devait etre les seuls occidentaux de tout le village qu ...

... and get serious about religion.<br> <br>4 temples later, a horse ride and Alex climbing the money temple stairs, tiger skins, cat and fox fur on offer in the market, some terrible food and the most beautiful, friendly Monk who invited us to listen to him playing his flute we had had a magicaly experience in WuTaiShan and were seriously comtemplating giving Buddhism a whirl we were ready to leave...<br>

... We continued on past the God of Wealth Temple (now a hotel), Cloud Bridge and Five Pine Pavillion reaching the path of 18 bends (or my version, the Ascension of Death!). What seemed like an eternity past before we passed the Archway of Immortality and the final leg (which i ran!) to the South Gate of Heaven. At the summit, we walked down Tain Jie (aka shopping street) entering several impressive temples (Confucius Temple, Azure Cloud Temple and Qingdai Palace) and other ...

Enduring a long, unheated and mildly life threatening bus journey (it slipped off the side of a snowy mountain road at one point), I reached the peaceful Wutai Shan (five terrace moutain). One of the four sacred buddhist peaks in China, it was understandably almost deserted given the temperature was several degrees below freezing during the day and a hell of a lot colder at night. I was glad the hotel had good heating, though I wasn't quite so enthused by ...

We've been in China a week now and have had to re-evaluate what we are going to be able to see. We completely under-estimated the size of the country and have had to write off alot of locations (Tibet included unfortunately). But back to Pingyao. We arrived at 5am to Yamen Hostel. Its a great hostel with antique Chinese furniture a couple of hundred years old. Really nice place to stay ...

... on or something. To the left of the monastery is a long snaking stairway with the middle having a dragon's head where people can walk through the mouth to view the other side of the canyon, kind of like walking "through the dragon's belly". We have to wait to walk through the monastery and once we get inside you realize that a thousand other people are inside at the same moment and you cant help but wonder how this old place can hold all the ...