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By China 2006 2007
May 11th 2007

Tai'an en Taishan - Praktische informatie

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We namen in Qufu de bus naar Tai'an (16Y - 1 uur), daar werden we afgezet op het plein vóór het treinstation. Je wordt er onmiddellijk aangesproken door mensen die hotels aanbieden. We probeerden eerst wat informatie in te winnen en een Engelstalige kaart van de Taishan te bemachtigen in het "Touist Information Service" kantoor op het stationsplein. Men gaf er wel de nodige uitleg over bussen en treinen om Tai'an weer te verlaten, maar hadden geen Engelstalige stadskaarten en wilden vooral hotelkamers boeken. We namen een taxi naar het Taishan Grand Hotel (Taishan Dajiudian), een ge [View Full Entry]

By Canucks in Asia
September 25th 2006

Blog #5: Tai Shan

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Sea of Clouds
Mountains breaking through the sea of clouds.

Because we are nearly finished the school decided for our going away they would shut down for two days and take a trip to a nearby mountain named TaiShan. It is touted here as the most famous mountain in China, and I have read that it is the most climbed mountain in the world. (Wich doesn't suprise me after seeing the amount of people going up and down while we were there) All the way up the have build an 8Km walking path, made mostly of stairs, and along the way there are shops, stalls, rest stops, and very cool very [View Full Entry]

By MichaelnFaye
September 18th 2006

Tai Shan - Stairway to Heaven

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Dai Temple
Flags blowing in the wind on the walls of the temple!

Day 1 We arrived in Tai’an (the town at the foot of Tai Shan) at about half six in the morning, bought tickets for our onward journey to Beijing (still no sleeper’s available, but we managed to book seats this time) and headed off in a taxi to find a hotel, we were taken to a hotel too far out of town but using my phrasebook I managed to talk the driver into taking us to a hotel nearer the centre of town and nearer the start of the trail head for climbing the mountain. Our plans were to climb the [View Full Entry]

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