I regularly use Priceline to book a hotel in Seattle near the airport for layovers. Getting a great room for about $60 is really nice. But i just nabbed a rental car for three days while in Seattle too…
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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization has a list of about 900 sites worldwide of significant cultural or natural importance. I have been to the following ones…
- Mesa Verde
- Yellowstone
- Grand Canyon
- Redwoods
- Pueblo de Taos
- City of Cuzco, Peru
- Machu Picchu, Peru
- Lima, Peru city center
- City of Quito, Ecuador
- Chichen-Itza, Mexico
- Banff & Jasper in Canada
- Great Wall, China
- Imperial Palace, China
- Temple of Heaven, China
- Longmen Grottoes, China
- Angkor, Cambodia
About 5 hours later we arrived in Luo Yang… home to the Longmen Caves UNESCO World Heritage site and the Shaolin Monastery – the home of Shaolin Kung Fu and Zen Buddhism.
“…brewed with selected natural materials. This kind of beer is very popular in USA.”
Employees plied the train cars selling soups, beverages, and even jewelry. People slept. Jordan read. Pepper and i talked about the wedding. I had a beer.
The tangle of trains that head to more rural areas of China… Rural is a very loose term here.
You know which train is leaving from which platform now? Yeah… this is what makes travel difficult in areas lesser frequented by foreigners.
In the afternoon of our second day in Xi’an we went to the train station and negotiated the masses. I have had bad luck at foreign train stations so i was on high alert… Here’s a glance to one side of the first floor of the station. We already had our tickets so we could avoid this mess. I took a panoramic set from here and will stitch it together later.
A pair of rickshaw drivers kept each other company in the fog atop the Xi’an city wall.
Pepper borrowed my camera and snagged this surreal image of the Xi’a City Wall on our second day in the city.