Blogs from Taiyuan, Shanxi, China, Asia - page 4

Taiyuan, pop. 3 million, is the capital city of Shanxi Province. Shanxi means "west of the mountains" and the mountains is where we have been for the last 3 days enjoying cool air, beautiful wild flowers and enough BUddhist temples to last me into the next life. The holy mt. , Wutai Shan, has been a pilgrimage site for over a thousand years for people from India, Japan and Korea, as well as China, and is known for over 200 temples and a very famous stupa (Buddhist holy place). Wu = 5, tai=peaks, shan=mountains - Your assignment is to get onto Google Earth and search Wutai Shan and go on your own pilgrimage. I understand that you can actually see the different temples and the beautiful landscapes. The scenery was spectacular and it was interesting ... read more

the two last days were not very exciting. i did some sightseeing and i will save you from watching the photos of some more temples, masks and other stuff. unfortynately i'm not able anyway to catch all the impressiveness and greatness of all this buildings into a photo. i left nanjing at 0.50 in the morning and had to sit in the train for 17 hours. that made me a little bit nervous since i thought it would be very exhausting. this turned out to be a very wrong thought. in the meantime i knew the railway station already and i was also familiar with the procedure how to get on the right train. there was another point this time, which i was not really sure how i could handle it: the ticket was only valid ... read more