I checked out of my hotel and tried to get a train to Zhengzhou, but the person said a lot of things in Chinese and it didn’t seem like it would work out. I tried a bus instead. The bus arrived far from the center of the city, so I needed to find another bus …
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My train was scheduled to arrive at 3:42AM. In the mean time, I had a seat next to a very rude Chinese man. He drank a lot of tea and he couldn’t sleep, so while everyone else was trying to sleep he was walking around, talking to people, and trying to sleep himself. He would …
The bus dropped me off on the street at 4:30AM. The streets were empty and no taxis. I was on my own. The bus driver said walk one direction, but I wanted to know where I was so I opened up my computer where I had Google Earth cached. I had just crossed a river, …
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This morning I visited the Longmen Grottoes. Thousands of caves and carvings are here and it is an important historical site. It it similar to what I saw in Shanxi province last month. Longmen picks up where Yungang left off since the capital of China moved. Next I visited the grave site of Guan Yu, …
As soon as I woke up, I rushed to the bus station so I can make a trip over to the Shaolin Temple. I headed for the official ticket office, got a ticket, but then people started trying to get me to follow them. I wanted to play it safe, so I went through the …
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Time to go visit some of the places I missed last time I was in China. I took an overnight train south to Henan Province from Beijing. I arrived in the city of Luoyang. At one time it was the capital of China and there is a lot of old history here. Today I visited …
I got to see the Olympic stadiums finally. I took the new Olympic subway line to the last stop, which was near a park. This new park is the largest in Beijing and it looked like I needed all day to walk around it, so I just walked in a small area. I walked south …
I know some Pilipino teachers at an English school in this city an hour outside of Beijing. They cooked some Pilipino food for me, which was nice since I haven’t visited the Philippines. I also got to see karaoke (or KTV as it is called in China) for the first time in China. They have …
I was going to make one more trip to Beijing. According to the information in my hostel, there is one bus going to Beijing leaving at 7:20AM. I got up an hour before and was ready to go until I saw I was locked inside the hostel. I had to wait until 7:00AM when they …
After an early wakeup, I took the high-speed “D” train to Ji’nan. I’ve been reading about the plans for high-speed rail in China and they want to create the largest network of this type in the world. So far, Qingdao is one of the few cities that is connected. My destination was Qufu, the hometown …