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I got to the bus station at about 4pm. A guy at the service counter sold me a ticket for 200RMB and said the bus left at 5pm. This wasn’t quite what I’d seen online (180RMB leaving at 4:30) – but that was the only bus that left [...]
Mongolia Trip
June 14th – Grottos
Got up at 6:30, I’m mostly adjusted to the time zone now.
Answered email, and showered, and left the hotel at around 7, to go to the grottoes. Sadly, the road that the bus travels on was no longer in existence – it was totally torn up, and just a big patch of dirt that [...]
June 13th – Mount Heng
Got up early at 5am. Fiddled with my computer – getting pictures posted and such. Had breakfast.
Went down to the lobby at 7 to meet my driver. The first place we went was the wooden pavilion. It’s a bit over an hour out of town on the beijing – mongolia expressway. [...]
Pictures
Pictures from Datong will show up in this album.
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June 12th Part 2 – Town
Went down to the lobby, and the cab driver I had taken was still around and offered to drive me to the mountain tomorrow. We discussed it for a while, and I hired him for all of tomorrow to take me to the mountain, the hanging monastery, and the wooden pagoda tomorrow for $50. [...]
June 12th Part 1 – Getting Out
I left off while I was waiting for my flight to beijing. This plane was much older – still discolored from smoking inside, and with old crt TVs that dropped down from the roof. The flight was uneventful if a bit bumpy, and we made it to beijing on time at 11:40 pm.
They [...]
June 11th – Getting In
Woke up at 6 am, and got to the Seattle airport at 7 am.
Went to the american airlines counter and got told to go to alaska. Their terminals weren’t working, but after going through their attendant line, I got by ticket to los angeles. Since China Eastern isn’t their partner, they couldn’t reserve [...]
