Tiananmen Square (Tiananmen Guangchang) Beijing

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Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City

Let me just start out by saying that I cannot possibly remember all of the details that we heard on our first day of our trip. I do know a couple of facts that are conclusive: Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City are truly amazing. I would do it a great injustice in trying to …

Our first day with the Wendy Wu Tour Group, there are 17 of us in total, and our guide Erin for the whole tour comes from Xian.

A fairly reasonable start to the day, breakfast was Western, nice to have some toast, eggs and bacon, instead of the more traditional Chinese breakfast like we had at Chengdu. Has anyone tried Coogee, to me it …

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This morning we awoke at 6am to go into the centre of Beijing to see the Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square. The day started well with a KFC for breakfast however KFC seems to have a spicy edge to it here.

The Forbidden City was absolutely beautiful and the gardens were amazing. A lot of the buildings were the same but incredible due to …

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We just returned from a much-needed trip to Beijing with good friends. We had 8 days off from teaching for the May 1 Chinese holiday (Labour Day) so we took the …

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So about a week ago now we arrived into Beijing after a 24 hour train ride from Mongolia.

Our first impressions coming in on the train were mixed - we passed some stunning mountain ranges but quickly hit some real industry, very different from what we'd been seeing in Mongolia. For what seemed like an age before we …

After a grueling 24 hours, we've finally made it to Beijing.

And boy is it busy.

After getting through the airport, and taking the train into the city, we took on the subway. What a task it was. Not because of the difficult sign posts or the many directions we could take; that was all fine. The culture shock was getting to grips …

Raffles has a pretty amazing breakfast setup. They've got a lot of Chinese traditional stuff as well as the waffles and bacon. Deciding to make it a little East meets West, I got the guy to whip up a Roasted Duck omelette (an Erik original) for me complete with green onions. It was amazing!

At 9 we boarded the bus to head over to the Tian' …

Set off for China from Newcastle. Got a British Airways flight from Newcastle to London at 13.40pm. There was some bad turbulence on the way into London. It was raining in London; there was no where for us to land so we had to circle three times going back through the turbulence. I felt very sick on the way in and so did a few other people. Did …

...Y llegamos a Beijing!...Totalmente cubierta y con un frío que te lo encargo, arribamos al aeropuerto sin problemas. No hubo revisión, no hubo control del equipaje....en fin, expedito.
A la salida, al primera negociada...cuánto vale el taxi?...afortunadamente escribimos la dirección del hostel en chino, entonces quedaba claro para el …

... vs. taxi racing (Walking wins!) * Lugie hocking/Spitting (So far, looks like Dan's going for bronze!) * Tiananmen Square obstacle course manoevering (The obstacles are all human) * Selling Olympic memorobilia * Forbidden City ...

... the guy at the desk claimed we got the best rooms so we are not arguing). We are just a five-minute walk from Tiananmen Square and is near many important cultural and historical attractions such as the Forbidden City, Chairman Mao Mausoleum and the Great ...

... blew out the long train cobwebs with a long walk round Beijing. Starting with fight through the crowds on the impressive tiananmen square. Mao slightly smirking looking at everyone who passes from the gates of the Forbidden City. Three hours of walking ...

... The Forbidden City - a beautiful and stunning complex of buildings from ancient Imperial dynasties. All this based around Tiananmen Square, whose very name seems to carry an awesome significance. Saturday we visited the Beijing ...

... expense of a disenfranchised urban intellectual and industrial populous. This was the background to--and the tinder for--the Tiananmen Square uprising. Twenty years later the roles have been reversed, as China's cities have become engines of growth ...

... of Heavenly Peace from which a huge picture of Chairman Mao hangs, presiding over the crowds of tourists and the vast Tiananmen Square, the largest public square in the world. We visited the Summer Palace in the mist and rain, which leant ...

The first thing we did upon arriving in Beijing was head to Tiananmen Square. At first we didn't even know if we were in 'the' square as it seems to have been filled in with so much 'stuff', maybe to prevent mass gatherings? Who knows! But instead of the ...

... Warriors. In many ways I will miss Beijing, as the people are friendly and I like where I've stayed for the past 10 days. And now, the sun finally shines, displaying an entirely different side to the city. ...

... we ventured out with our new found friends Mariska and Rene. Our first stop on the tourist trail in Beijing was the Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square.  Tiananmen Square conjured up images of military marches seen on television in the 80s and ...

... the tanks rolled in. Neither should one expect any outward emotion, let alone a monument. The Communist Party of China refers to the Tiananmen Square Massacre only as "political turmoil" and concedes a mere 23 deaths, against the Chinese Red Cross ...