Canaan International Hotel

... it's important that you know to always say no to a 'Western Breakfast' in China.  We signed up for it with our Canaan International Hotel....as it is true that fried rice and surprise dumplings do get old at 730 am.  But the egg is only semi ...

... keeping up with a busy pace as we tried to see as much as possible in a short time.  We stayed at the Canaan International Hotel, which was a nice three star hotel that cost only $25 for a room for two.  Thankfully, some of the hotel staff ...

... surrounded by an intact city wall. The wall is 15km all the way round; we're hoping to walk the entire wall tomorrow. Our hotel is quite nice too; the welcome leaflet states that it "is not really luxurious, but homely", and that the restaurant "might not ...

... downtown, we took a cab to our hotel from the place where we were dropped off by the bus.  We quickly checked into our hotel and set out to discover the city.  We headed towards Xi’an’s City Wall.  Built in the Ming Dynasty, ...

... Johnny Walker on a pendulum to tip and pour. We did find some instant oats for porridge in the basement store for our next hotel breakfast. We then sat outside and watched the people coming and going. There are a lot of street vendors, women who take ...

... sweet breads and cakes. The hard boiled eggs went down very slowly. Our guide met us downstairs and we were off to another hotel to pick up another couple. They were Gini and Konstantin from Athens, Greece. Our first tour was to the Big Wild ...

... until 1948 when the United Nations tried to create a homeland for the Jews and the Palestinians with Jerusalem as an international city. This proposal was rejected by the Arabs  and resulted in the formation of the State of ...

... unlikely that we will ever come to an agreement over the military occupations, contested territories, sovereignty disputes, international terrorism, educational and media propaganda, accusations of global conspiracy and world-wide nuclear stand-off that ...