After about 24 hours in Pingyao I awoke relatively early in the morning to head to the bus station. From there I was able to get on a bus for ¥25 RMB to Taiyuan. On the bus I chatted with a guy from Nanjing. He asked me the same typical questions, like why I’m here, where I live, where I’m from, etc. This guy told me he really enjoyed photography so he showed me a lot of his work, a lot of which was quite good.
Upon arriving in Taiyuan about 2 hours later I was greeted by Marina. I was pretty happy to see her because she had been in Taiyuan for a little over three weeks before I arrived. We spent a good part of the afternoon just walking around and seeing things in her hometown. A bit later on we met up with
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two of her friends (one of which we visited in Chengdu in November) and hung out with them as well. They showed me their high school, we ate some local snacks as well as a nice dinner and then went to a club for a few drinks. A very enjoyable day without all the touristy sightseeing.
The next morning I went to pick-up Marina outside her house so we could walk to the train station. There I met her mother who wanted to come out and see who this boy, her daughter was going traveling with, was. We didn’t really talk, but I said “hello” and shook her hand and 30 seconds later Marina and I were walking to the train station.
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