2002/10/01 Beijing / Taiyuan / Pingyao clear

LG an appointment with the 7:40 am Science and Technology Museum 300 Station Road, to meet even two minutes late, LG late for 20 minutes. Beijing sandstorm in the suffering and vehicle exhaust poisoning, the casually boarded a bypass roads designed to go 730 to interchange 50 Lize Bridge Road, all the way to the bus station Dangling, at which time less than 9:00, but to go Taiyuan, the many people who can only buy tickets 9:30 start, 121 yuan / person, plus insurance costs 1 yuan / person. Long-distance traffic jams inside the car at the station 15 minutes later, finally back on track, along the way, Oumen sunlight in the sinister when hot or cold air-conditioning and Chow Yun-fat small piece of old sheet accompanying VCD Session under the drowsy, conscious and when to Identification of the poor quality of lunch boxes in the lorry to send the contents as well as monitoring from passing around the crowd to the toilet for fun, at 16 o'clock arrived in Taiyuan.
Taiyuan set foot on the land 10 feet after a few minutes, decided to take a taxi straight to build the Southern Bus Station, found to Pingyao IVECO, 19 yuan / person along the way Beijing can enjoy a small public treatment. The entire road, even sleeping for more than 80% of the time, so vehicular traffic on the surrounding landscape information such as ignorant no comment.
Night around 7:00, arriving Pingyao railway station, the car Jibei various models motorcycle tricycle drivers and those who solicit stay surrounded by, and some even talked to us half the street, continue to lobby all the way, in the even, and LG escaped across the road, to continue across the road and took half the street, and then U-turn back to pre-empt at the junction outflanking, in repeatedly turned Oumen Yoshimasa rhetoric refused, finally Xingxing Ran leave dedication can be seen from Shanxi evident.
Pingyao with bicycles and motorcycles as the main means of transport, must not pay attention when walking traffic, retrograde force Meng Shui is not uncommon for speeding, but also frequent congestion phenomenon, to maximize response capabilities exercise tourists observation and physical agility , savvy may have trained in the higher rows Variety Lingboweibu God freely shuttle in the traffic stream.
In such traffic conditions, Oumen scare to come to a gate of Pingyao ancient city (two days later I discovered this as Simon) The former, the next goal is the Ming and Qing Yun Jin into the street (LG has pre-booked rooms , 150 yuan / day). As the dark without a map + travel + Lawton, forced to find a vehicle battery or a car, Kanjia to 2 million were forced to get off the encounter traffic jam + first + foot + labyrinth walk constantly ask for directions, the successful arrival at around 8:00 the purpose of land.
Pingyao's Inn generally are multi-function type, front yard, eating (or for a museum for the visitors), backyard accommodation. Oumen set the room on the second floor, Dubbed the "boudoir" or "Xiulou", wood flooring furniture (which is why fireworks is strictly prohibited, regardless of smoking, but the point of mosquito's do not), hard Banchuang, on the belt to bring the curtain on the bed also Place a Kang tables, in addition to TV dispenser bathroom, 24-hour hot water shower (but a very small amount of water is equivalent to holding a teapot pouring down).
Simple inspection of some, the hurry to go rice rice (Yun Kam-shing's meals, but reputation greatly, many Mix are recommended over the Internet, which is Oumen chosen to live in one of the reasons here, He He). Prestigious You-face kaolao can not but point (for fear of Luqie, not casual reading "kaolao" word modestly told the waiter whispered: "To a You-face ... then what," waiter loudly responded, "Oh, You-face by grandma ! ", faint ~ ~ ~) Pingyao Beef, of course not to be missed, cut it one! Come back two bottles of beer, two vegetables, a total of 40 yuan (not cheap ah ~). You-You-face kaolao shall Steamed noodles volume of the hollow cylindrical shape, filled a drawer on end, there are two kinds of sauce and tomato sauce eggs, choice, it is refreshing, taste good; beef is very tender than the beef sauce water be a little more then I do not Seya (that is, slightly You Dianxian). One fly in the ointment to eat half of a sudden power failure, the original canteen on the dark dark one (funny foreigners temporary tables suddenly in unison singing happy birthday to you ~), later a waiter for each table only Palm Candle Holders ( Daoshi do have some atmosphere, a few days after the blackout that are commonplace in Pingyao surprising), the second attendant everybody lazy, and guests are not taking a seat for a long time to go take the initiative to say hello (foreigners excluded), when ordering the guests they are also love take nothing, no worries about his daughter to marry the emperor a look, and the Old Beijing Noodle's "two inside invited" into a world of difference between!
Fond, strolling the streets. We should know that Oumen but lived in the Ming and Qing Street, Pingyao ancient city lies the most prosperous, equivalent to Beijing's Wangfujing, the United States, Wall Street (Oh, and that stands for "Urban House" will be comparable to the WTO a). Though it was already 21:00, but because it is National Day, it's still bustling with tourists, street side restaurant Inn with repeated shouts of greeting each guest, as well as selling "antiques" (target consumer group for foreigners) of stalls selling all kinds of gadgets and sell more Pingyao beef, all of them known as authentic Guanyun beef. There are also some other snacks, out of curiosity, even bought a bag of Bing Kee Taigu cake, shaped something like a sesame seed, sprinkle the top with a lot of white sesame seeds, solid-free stuffing, I do not know how the taste?
A walk is completed, return to Cloud Kam-shing, was found on the street though is trouble, but get in the backyard is exceptionally quiet, leaning side railing on the second floor hallway, watching the stars from heaven, and highly distinctive residential areas on both sides of the roof, as well as under the eaves of the red lanterns, really a kind of insular refuge in small building into a unified sense of ... ...

2002/10/02 Pingyao Qing

Morning rounds are next door ringtone disturbing the Qing dream, actually also heard the squeak of the modem inside uproar Internet voice (later found out that the clouds next to Kam-shing's computer workstations, all the online information queries linkages are derived from this!). To be determined to struggle to get up, wash finished rush to eat breakfast hall is already 9:00 and was told breakfast waiter has been sold out, woo ~
And the LG unhappy return to the residence, pulls out yesterday to buy Taigu cake, tentatively breaking off a small taste, sweet and delicious ah ~ and then rushed into the cup of Maisiweier vanilla coffee,吼吼, Taigu cake + coffee, Pingyao a must ~ ~ ~ (from dual addiction intoxicated on a daily basis like a cake, a beautiful vision in Taigu was greatly LG nose)
Breakfast with the strike was already 10 o'clock, go out a walk. Sun is high under the Ming and Qing Street, even more prosperous everywhere wearing a small white cap flags look a little harder to follow tour guides, there are a number of foreigners carrying a huge luggage dispersed remnant. Road center does not hold sway when a rickshaw for the exclusive use of paid visitors to take photographs, the owner wearing a small felt hat, and provides visitors with the long robe and cap wafer sunglasses landlords stick a set of lines such as head, to be properly dressed tourists, the owner will be put on a excellent POSE, bending forward in the focus of the probe lunge forward to do pull carts like, absolutely still easy to take pictures but dynamic, so that people do read the pictures in order to do this car speeding into. See even and LG infinite admiration: "dissatisfied No, what lines are not easy, there is no point of professionalism and professional standards Forget that too eat bowl of rice!"
Simon Qutang-first-out train station, inquire about tickets back to Beijing and was told at once. The southeast side of the station, after the supermarket some small purchases, backtrack. The ancient city is really small, the map can not think of the long street in blink of an eye, we came to an end, and God knows what that scale is 1 to a few? The Ming and Qing Street, walk south along the street shall be the government, Pingyao, one of the famous attractions - County Yamen sit landed this, there are signs a letter to 11:00 Shengtang performances, watch, hour has passed, gradually prepared to evacuate. They encountered a group of people pass through a police open in front Chuichuidada, followed by a hi back door sedan, is thought Which marriage, fleet followed by a coffin, really it was Phi Ma mourning Yanmianerqi, unlike put on a show. But other sedan chair bearers who are cheeky happy expression, reminiscent of "Big Shot's Funeral" as mentioned in the "happy funeral" I do not know whether this is really it?
Oh, right here, had to introduce in Pingyao's new policy - 85 yuan ticket, attractions within the city is not only selling tickets, or buy off votes, or Jiubeng into. Even personally feel that the policy is very dog feces is a kind of forced on consumers purchasing behavior, it refused to bribe votes in a huff. This act morally bound to the even and LG in Pingyao these days, although every day through the gates, passing the famous Biaoju, Rishengchang, County Yamen, but never entered visited. And those who followed the busy Lian Zhouzhuan tours every day at all attractions touched on this a tour tired, too busy taking pictures of death than a thief, although in Pingyao Oumen stayed four days, but connectivity, are reluctant to buy a ticket every day in order to 4 + 3 eat a wandering down to the ultimate goal, in the end who is more stupid to do so?
The role of the two passes into the city to limit the number of people. During the day, all major roads in the city, the junction will set up checkpoints, and only ticket holders who may enter the city. Out of the city into the city easy to difficult, even, and LG have also been blocked out. While earnestly to explain their Oumen Cloud Kam-shing's residents, but they are no one believed (yes ah, connectivity did not vote, where as a visitor), but unfortunately, had to leave even as a "hostage", LG rushed back to apply for a store Paper Pass - Accommodation receipt slip.
Pass the role of the three is to help local people to find a sideline: lead the way. At various roadblocks, there will be country girls peasant woman approached volunteered: "I did not buy off votes, right? I'll take you from a certain backyard into the Ming and Qing Street, 15 how the money is like?" Shrewd Shanxi is evident, even even began to wonder whether the highway and the complicity of leading the way!
Let me say the next day's food bar, continue to develop new varieties of pasta bowl ~ The first is bald (also known as bald bowl, bowls off son, bowl is bald. Shanxi this place like a "child" and "then" pass off, and so there is socks then package the pants are, etc.), a bit like Liang Pi, dips and You-surface kaolao the same creamy taste, but taste in general. Noodle, it is already a very common kind of pasta, but the cloud Kam-shing's noodle taste really good, and the ingredients should be a great relationship. You Gao, similar turtres a Dongdong, but the shape of small, dumpling-like big, red bean paste inside Zaoni stuffing, taste Well, not as good as fried cake! In this strongly recommended Shui Jianbao! Although the capital is also a snack stalls all over the secular, but certainly feels different! Here Shui Jianbao fried very thoroughly, and was coke yellow, fragrant with a little bit of crisp, heads are small, a plate can be under 20 yards, dipped in aged vinegar, tut, delicious ah, even the package is always right have little interest in the dual breath ate almost 10!
Ah, almost forgot to introduce Pingyao, one of the important facilities: Internet cafe! PPHH trips three elements: the supermarket, shower, Internet cafes, a Less ~ turn right into Simon can see the two bars (Recommended called "Tontrush" of that one). Pingyao Internet cafes are very cheap, 2 Yuan / hour, and the management of lax management that he is not a minor, as long as the money is given them, pre-school does not matter. Machine dirty lay bare spots, speed is quite slow, but the send and receive e-mail to play LAN games will be enough to use it, lost fans in Beijing Internet cafes CS Blessed啦! In the LG the strong request of CS even received elementary education, knowing the direction of a simple operation of keys and how to buy guns and ammunition. Then when even faltered in carrying his heavy sniper rifle in the wrong path in the tunnel when milling, LG knife and quietly around to the behind even extremely brutal stabbing knives will be even!
Chiba after dinner, but also look for the Ming and Qing Dynasty Street, among several other inns, the price starting from 160 (high season crazy prices), the room facilities are also very similar layout, even the Internet prestigious "Heaven Corey Yuen," much better than this, the room was not like clouds Jin into the spacious, but I do not know hot water is not big enough (even taking a bath is a mad, mad Rangou days without a bath will be able to ~), and most of them are sold out. Suggest that you set in advance before traveling a good room (also slightly cheaper than it is now), and do not forget Kanjia!
Basically a day roaming the land in the state of Montreal, resulting in excessive fatigue, sleep even if dead pigs, and even originally planned to start before going to bed a small banquet was also cancel out.

2002/10/03 Pingyao / Wang's Grand Courtyard ring clear

In the distance coming from time to time, as well as several more barking next door to the sound of a telephone modem, a new day has begun. Despite getting up to a bitter ideological struggle, and so on, and LG even rushed to the dining room or breakfast came the bad news at once! Waiter has clearly made a deep impression on the Oumen, smiling reminder Oumen prior to 8:50 to be fed. Even Dao Shi does not matter, because in the room Pingyao a must - even Taigu cake + coffee waiting for it, LG is a bitter-shaped.
Today there is an important task: to Wang's Grand Courtyard! Taigu cake filled a stomach, after the station bought a 10:40 to Jiexiu air-conditioned express train ticket, 5.5 yuan / person, trip 20 minutes. Out of Jiexiu railway station, you can transfer to cross-refer directly to Wang's Grand Courtyard 11 Road IVECO, 3 yuan / person, trip about 40 minutes.
Wang's Grand Courtyard tickets 45 yuan / person, tour guides and 50 yuan / time. To save money, and another six people together to find a tour guide (this was later proven redundant, in the 11 this season, wherever accompanied by tour guides explain the torrent of sound, you can rub all the way down, but also economical and flexible, the time line, can own hands and try to do it). Bring down the whole way tour guides will take about a half hour presentation on the attractions is sketchy, really want a good tour, then it is absolutely not enough (and therefore more recommendations to their stroll, along the road rub guides). Fortunately, however, and even LG are all superficial understanding of the lazy, listening to a watch it can be about Qi, left ear into the ear out, coupled with the tour guides and speak with a lady not know much about accent did not really understand that now I only remember that the earliest Maidou Fu Wang, and Wang from the 20th generation after the decline due to smoke opium rather dilapidated and so on.
Wang's Grand Courtyard Tickets roots of a postcard, it is recommended you find a local post office (not too far away, out of the compound 5-10 minute walk to) send to, cover Shanxi Lingshi of postmark, will be more memorable.
Still take 11 journey to the Jiexiu train station, buy the 3:30 train back to Pingyao, this time cheaper, 2.5 yuan / person (later proven that time is money, and 2.5 yuan's car turned out better than 5.5 yuan, climbing, See station stopped, on the return with 40 minutes slower than doubled). Hour by car from the early days, we strolled in around for a while, found that more than Jiexiu Pingyao (Metro) to downtown, the evidence is as follows: obtain a permit on the flyover advertising, Metersbonwe stores, as well as authentic Erie ice-cream.
After the return to Pingyao, and LG can take a motor tricycle gear (6 million) to the ancient city of the east Guanyun Beef Group to buy safe meat, price and various stalls and supermarkets than in the city, slightly lower than 1 yuan per bag , it is recommended to purchase large quantities, or else I'm sorry tolls.
Since Wang's Grand Courtyard seen selling tofu Wang, Chan Chong dug up, so even and the LG south-west side of the station and then went to newly opened supermarket (with the formation of a strong competition between supermarkets, south-east, but also take the land from the show xintaizi singing and dancing to attract customers, have seen a "cool guys" sang: ditch, ditch, ditch, to throw up vomit Le Le Le vomit ...) the acquisition of peanuts and so eat tofu sausage. Then continued to launch Internet cafes CS Tontrush war.
Because it intends to open a small banquet at night, so dinner can be relatively simple, even, and LG were a twist to the fish, a tick smb, a point each time will sour potato silk. Tick smb This Dongdong both the shape and the noodle taste, or practices are very like, only slightly shorter than the noodle. Rub the fish is a kind of two sharp short noodles, shape, size, and slug (also known as sticky insects, species of slugs, the South Common, the North is rare and does not look like like a snail shell ... vomit, this is who spit it? ?? He He)-like, slippery tendon Road, practices similar to the fried noodles, but no taste, pour in even after nearly a small Banhu vinegar (It's interesting, although the LG is the authentic native of Shanxi, but he did not like even to be jealous, and regardless of He can not learn without even done with the Shanxi accent said, "Yun Kam-shing", ha ha) before Xia Du.
Back to the room, small banquet started at this time Kang tables finally come into play, both men sat cross-legged on the bed, table full spectrum of eat while watching TV while drinking beer, there is a tie not a tie-in chat, Shuang ! Now that's living!

2002/10/04 Pingyao Qing

Today is a memorable day, because - Oumen has finally caught up with the fleeting clouds Kam-shing was a breakfast (eat yesterday, incidentally, throw the two packages manufactured garbage)!
Yun Jin Cheng breakfast very formal, neither written recipes, but the price is not clearly marked. Attendants lazy to tell you that breakfast include: cake, porridge and side dishes. But we clearly see a foreigner in openly coffee bread! No, even to fight for equal treatment! In the waiter's eyes a bit weird, under even the breakfast they can eat sweets (such as Taigu cake) of people to secure a glass of coffee, two slices of bread, a bottle of jam (run out is to also back). LG and even obviously not illustrious, his dream of Chinese want to eat breakfast and completely abandon the Taigu cake Unfortunately, Yun Jin Cheng could not achieve their dream of soybean curd fritters, only the green onion pie millet gruel plus fermented bean curd dishes, make do with bar ! To add a cloud Kam-shing's breakfast is not free, oh ~
Today's task is only one: to help the ancestral home of the LG roots in Shanxi Province. "Tibetan Antelope" described in the Old Town Street, No. 33 within the kilns there is a W house, and LG same surname, so it is necessary to try to discover something. And yesterday visited the Wang's Grand Courtyard, the emotion on the wealthy side of the royal style, LG is more convinced that the same as his ancestors must have Shanxi is also landlord. Although highly unlikely, but if pedigree Renzuguizong can dig out a general down is also a good thing, chances are able to do some live mixing food mixing Hei hei.
Surmise, on a small map of the starting Pingyao. Thus Oumen have the opportunity to go deep into the ancient city of the more remote areas. From those bustling attractions, Pingyao Ancient City really is a quiet, slightly behind another small little place, bumpy stone paths, strewn with cinder leaves and other rubbish, very few pedestrians on the road, occasionally Kongshi tourist passenger electric vehicles pass by left is the wall under the sporadic "radical × ×, a needle bear fruit" small ads. Not only people with emotion, if there is no tourism, these people rely on what is to life?
Finally found a 33 W house location is indeed a big Zhaizi, looking tall and impressive than the surrounding houses to some, but this is a mottled bleaching damage was a mess. The door was locked, did not see any plaque identification, do not know whether there are people living inside, living in someone. Must surely have people have changed, strike strike strike, maybe W has already run-down house in it, LG's roots trip ended.
The remainder are still looking for four east look west, across the quiet streets, went to the downtown location - the wall north gate. Is probably the North Gate of beef from a group of more recent Guanyun bar, where the beef promotion exceptionally hard, more 4,5 inflated only cattle (by people dress, it was even observed wearing a T shirt buttons cattle shall be transparent and Office Their window) in the street to attract customers. Oumen is preparing to turn around to go back, but saw a very funny thing, first saw a cow stagger to leave the road center, to the alley in a walk, but see lane bend logo "toilet -" " , saw the animal staggered away in the bend, and the second between the first and then followed on the way, slip a string of 45 cattle to all the children disappear in this staggered openings, the openings of the length width seems to They customize general, cattle horn just through the doorway. Ha ha ha, cows lined up to do the toilet ~ ~ ~ Have you seen the hands of really anxious to have a DV recorded this funny moment!
To leave the North Gate, think of it, within the ancient city still has not been to a town god's temple, so what you want to there, of course, there is no 85 yuan entry passes are not allowed outside the temple visited the ~ about it, heard the bell several more coming , Oh, meet, rest and go back to Inn ~
Three fed an inverted view of life is not enough, even so has added a down - afternoon nap. Minutes after getting up to eat the last piece of pie Taigu, decisions, and LG two-pronged, he still go to Internet cafes CS war, even went to the big supermarket outside the city for the procurement of tasty way to enjoy tonight and tomorrow.
Remains is to take several days to become familiar with the road could not have been familiar with, but each time can always find fresh Dongdong. The first day found a number of Naigao store (presumably short for cream cake) socks, then (thereby pushing cicada "is" and "child" of the pass fake) store the next day will find a shop selling giant thick incomparable Erti Jiao ( That Dongdong even afraid of loud noise, and resolutely opposed to LG to buy), on the third day will be worn on the streets to find his childhood comic-book stalls selling everything from renting ... ... in this small town, we seem to feel every thing curiosity, Ha ha!
Way back encountered a strange one, first heard a sudden crackling firecrackers, two motorcycles roaring past, people on the back seat holding a lit firecrackers to clear the way, followed by a few more cars, the original marriage The! Pending a closer look, suddenly cross the road out of three individuals went to the central, seeing'd be hit, but fortunately car brake in time To her surprise, three people still hang on, the original came to be hi the money! Here are entangled, you see a woman suddenly Guidao second cars before, but also for money! I do not know how much money to go away in the end group of people, Ma? Threaten even jump out of a car accident that had it ~ Is it the custom here, Mody? I do not know ~
The inn door, LG to buy a pair of handmade shoes, just under the shoe last, but also tidal Huhu's; even Mom and Dad bought a filial respect - and so, valley, cake ~ ~ ~
Continue to hold a small banquet at night, but also create the two packages junk ~

2002/10/05 Pingyao / Taiyuan / Beijing clear

Today is the farewell day.
Qi Dezao morning, more deliberate, eating the final breakfast. Even abandoned Taigu cake and bread jam, coffee and green onion into a small slice of the cake and fried bread dipped in condensed milk, do not have some flavor, Ha ha!
Full House back to the room settled down to get the debris, discarded rubbish, check-out to the railway station. 10:30 to buy tickets to Taiyuan, 8 yuan / person, pukuai, no seat. Train delayed about 2 hours later arrived in Taiyuan.
Did not go to build the Southern Bus Station, change to sit opposite the railway station Arima passenger (the body there is a leopard logo), 120 yuan / person, 12:45 start, relatively smooth road is bumpy back seat was terrible, and close proximity to the engine, as an oven-like broiling, depriving an even motion sickness never felt uncomfortable up, sleepy (and the next car千万不要买about 25 tickets). In Shijiazhuang, rest stops to eat a can bo a nice improvement over the rear over, eat snacks along the way since high spirits.
Evening 7:00 to Da Lize Bridge Bus Station, transfer to special 2-way home, to this end of the trip to Pingyao.

The above is even travel the whole process lasted for four half days, the two's cost (toll tickets plus accommodation shopping, etc.) is about 1,800 yuan. Most of the time for the three fed a stroll down + 4, and took time attention to the various Asian Games events, as well as a number of Taiwan dramas set intervals.
Some of shame, other Mix Walsh said the day will be able to attractions, Oumen so many days have not read all, Tell me what you can not provide any valuable travel information, ashamed Na (Do not give me negative feedback, I beg you in) ! Of course, on tourism experiences is not the original intention of even writing this travels (in fact, someone even forced to write), the only hope you will understand that travels in the share of leisure in this running account, lazy mood. Is not even justify, in fact, should be in the interest of the style of the ancient city of Pingyao, an ancient and quiet, insular. Today, Pingyao filled with too many commercial atmosphere, 500% of the traffic far exceeds its capacity, sometimes feels like living in Beijing's Silk Street, or the front door Da Zha Lan. Should really come a few years ago, and choose an off-season, so as to allow a more thorough I'm too lazy, but I am afraid that time, there is no CS, and呵呵~
Author: icyrabbit