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Monthly Archives: August 2007

Receipts

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Almost everywhere you go, you get (or can get) receipts. Always ask for one, especially from cabs!.
For cabs, you MUST tell them you want a receipt before starting off, or shortly after, or they might not turn on the meter. That’s almost a sure bet you’re going to get overcharged. With a receipt, they can [...]

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More T-Shirt buying

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

In Xi’an (previous post was about Beijing area), I also got a nice yellow t-shirt in the Muslim quarter. They have a really amazing shopping street just after entering under the main entrance archway.
If you go to visit the mosque, just outside is a T-shirt stand. At this one, they employed a student who could [...]

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More hostel information and bargaining tips

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

From one of my brochures, the words for “Youth Hostel” in Chinese are ???? (q?ngnián l?shè). L?shè can also be understood as “Travel Inn”, but “?? sùshè” means dormitory or hostel, and it’s common to contract compound words in this manner.
In Beijing, we stayed at the “Leo Hostel”. I can’t find a brochure or receipt [...]

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Hostels in Xi’an

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

While in Xi’an, we stayed at the Bell Tower Youth Hostel, which is apparently the first one recommended in the Lonely Planet guide book (which almost everyone I saw had a copy of). It’s very central to the city, and you can literally walk to several of the major tourist items, or take a quick [...]

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Another Great Wall treck

Saturday, August 25, 2007

Since I’m travelling with another student from Harbin, he wanted to go to the great wall, etc. We ended up doing the same 10k trek that I did in January. This time, the wall was full of tourists, so you see people all the time. Also, there were people selling books, fans+, postcards, ice water, [...]

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