I was drawn to Qufu by the guidebook's description of a temple in a neighbouring town being 'otherworldly'. If otherworldly means dull then it saw certainly that. The Confucian attractions in Qufu itself were good (as far as old temples can be) and it was nice to see a variation on the type of temple and park we had been seeing thus far.
But mainly, it was very relaxing to stay in a town of less than a million people, this one has only 88 000, practically a hamlet in Chinese terms. Here we could organise the rest of our trip, book flights home via an interesting stop-over and be frustrated by web sites that shouldn't be blocked (like a Kiev travel company) but are somehow caught in China's algorithmic web engines that decides which sites to allow and forbid.
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