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Weekend Escape to Pingyao
Blog: To China... and Beyond! - 31 May 2011
Following up on the success of last semester’s trip to Chengde, this month my language program whisked us off to Pingyao for a quick early-summer cultural excursion. Pingyao is perhaps the most famous of China’s “ancient cities,” and it is known in particular for having a remarkably well-preserved set of city walls.
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Xi’an, Turpan, Pingyao. China
Blog: Rice and Rock Concerts - 13 July 2009
Terracotta Warriors, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China – Images by Jamie McDonald Well, one thing I have learnt in the past week since leaving Xi’an and arriving in Beijing. Don’t ever, ever catch the bus from Xi’an to Pingyao – it is bus number AF432 and it leaves from the bus station next to the train station in Xi’an. It is a sleeper bus that costs 144 Yuan, and whilst in the first instance that is steep, when they leave over 2 hours late, and then fill the corridors with twenty to thirty people ...
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