It is a great privilege to visit with teachers from other universities, also in the BYU Kennedy Center’s “China Teachers Program.” We visited a very quaint ancient city just a few hours train ride from Beijing. PingYao has a wall around its ancient town, and very fun architecture.
A great way to see PingYao is to do it by cart. We laughed so hard as we navigated the streets, and got many odd looks from the locals.
Some of the fun things we saw at Pingyao
More fun in Pingyao. We also noticed a KFC “knock off,” much like many other knock-offs of U.S. businesses. They make no effort to hide the fact they are using the same branding colors, fonts, and images to look just like their American counterparts. We ordered chicken at ZFC.
In addition, we saw the Great Wall from a new vantage point–Mutianyu, which is a very popular stop.
We went to Mutianyu with Matt and Judy Batschi, Steve and Lorraine Swift, and a young Chinese student from another university. We were able to write our names on the “wall” which was actually a wallpaper designed for that purpose so that no one would actually deface the wall itself.
