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Beijing Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Beijing, China
Beijing and the Wall
This is a top pick! ... a bit muted by the smog that managed to make it all the way out (it was a 45-60min drive out of Beijing). We enjoyed Beijing very much. We were right near Tianamen Square and just up from there was the very atmospheric Forbidden City. Tuesday before we ...
The Emperor's Summer Palace
This is a top pick! We woke up this morning and we decided that the breakfast just isn't that good over here at the Hilton and we miss the pool and the fine rooms of the Fairmont. I logged on to see if I could make a last minute reservation and it showed sold ...
Olympi-mania
This is a top pick! ... with the Olympic mascots; advertisements featuring Olympic ping pong athletes...but it's truly low-profile there compared to Beijing. Topping our list, yesterday while eating dinner we watched a cartoon where the main characters were the ...
Welcome to Beijing!!!
This is a top pick! ... in Shanghai), then they found a boat to hire and take out on the water somewhere and found a food seller selling a Beijing version of a burger which was apparently delicious. The Temple of Heaven was another Buddhist temple enclosure that housed buildings ...
The Joy Of Counting Luck
This is a top pick! ... I've learned to appreciate in the last three years on the road. My time in any given place is finite, and my trip to Beijing was complete. I felt contentment and closure. My trip had been perfect, and I was ready to go home. Back at the hotel I found ...
Express engineering
This is a top pick! ... (Kates own words) but the actual hostel is very friendly, staff capable and drinks menu vast. Happy hour allowed me to sample Beijing Beer (2 for 12Yen - about 1.20). Kate kept them busy with a couple of coctails - they looked a bit shocked when a ...
Beijing and beyond
This is a top pick! ... We arrived in Beijing at 16:00 23rd July. After crossing the bridge next to the train station we found refuge in KFC as Beijing was instantly overwhelming. We ventured out to find a taxi to get us to our contacts house who would help us reach the ...
The Great Great Wall of China
This is a top pick! ... there is no denying it looks great. We had the privilege of passing through Badaling (The main tourist spot) from the train into Beijing and I got so excited I got my hair caught in the moving fan whilst craning my neck. On the other hand it also becomes ...
Bright Lights Big City Little People
This is a top pick! ... if you may, but I'd happily pay more on the door and be able to see the whole show. In conclusion I've enjoyed Beijing immensely. Its been everything we wanted it to be but now we are 'ready to rumble' onwards. Until next we meet. Be ...
Summer Palace, markets, noodles, and the hutongs
This is a top pick! ... China in quite some time... all construction is stopping at the end of this month, and that has been a part of life as Beijing has built the equivalent of NYC in the past five years... they are deporting millions of migrant workers and telling them to ...
Beijing
This is a top pick! ... you got that? It's simple really..." I feel like Manuel off Fawlty Towers! The most striking aspect of Beijing (and I imagine much of China) is the city's sheer vastness - whether it be the quite extraordinary complex of the Forbidden City, the ...
Spitting and Nipples
This is a top pick! "It was a cold, bright afternoon in April as the clock struck thirteen" - 1984 Everything Vinny says about Beijing is true.... All I can add is that I went off to watch some Kung Fu after spending the day being ill while everyone was off marching ...
The Newest Oldest Empire
This is a top pick! ... in China than there are in the US. The growing market for foreign luxuries is part of a long-standing trend in modern China. In Beijing, our tour guide, Dave, summed up the "Three Bigs", a colloquial measure of one's standard of living. Thirty years ...
Beijing, here I come!
This is a top pick! ... . We ran the court for a while and even attracted a decent crowd. Nicky (from Thailand, teaching English, well British, in Beijing for a few months) joined up with us and we went to dinner which turned out to be some sick stuff. We ...
Reflections
This is a top pick! My trip is over, and only now am I actually going to write my memoirs in reverse style. I ought to warn you that you may not believe the things that happened to me during this trip. All of my entries, ...
My 40th Birthday on the Great Wall of China
This is a top pick! ... over to the Hilton so we could enjoy the free breakfast every morning. Even though the Fairmont is rated as the #1 Hotel in Beijing on Tripadvisor and we verify that it's an awesome hotel (again, the rooms are like the Waldorf Astoria rooms in NYC), ...
Beijing is unreal!!!
This is a top pick! ... games and a few aerobic machines later and we were biking away with our tails between our legs but glad we met a really cool Beijing park gang. By the time we reached Henry's place, we were all starving and made a quick turnaround to a restaurant named ...
A weekend in Beijing
This is a top pick! ... by a supermarket to get some simple food and some drinks for the evening, which we spend in the comfort of the lovely Fairmont Beijing. The next morning I attended to some businesses, and we researched a good tour company for a trip to the Great Wall. ...
30 hours later
This is a top pick! ... ; After taking a package of Immodium I managed to survive the journey! Just spent a day looking around Beijing, but I will allow Dom to update the blog later in the week, with our feelings of sight seeing in Beijing. Blog soon people ...
Exploring bountiful Beijing
This is a top pick! ... musicians sat on pavement stools playing. We took it easy in the heat and humidity, visiting just a few of Beijing's bounty of temples and gardens and taking in the atmosphere. Despite hearing many stories to the contrary, every ...
Tian'anmen Square
This is a top pick! ... run paper, which is posted on huge billboards all over the city for people to read. Definitely weird. Like everything else in Beijing, Tian'anmen Square (ironically, Square of Heavenly Peace) is massive. I tried to get the dimensions but accounts vary. I ...
Beijing - Part 1
This is a top pick! ... so, the square is still pretty big! It was great to discover a subway station right near our hostel - it's made getting around Beijing so quick and easy (so we've managed to do so much already!). We joined the hordes of tourists visiting the Forbidden ...
CHINA!
This is a top pick! ... taking place before me, and now as I cross the street (and succeed) I become part of the music. So incredibly different from Canada, where some of the towns I visited could have been any rural US city. This is China. This is Beijing. I am traveling ...
Beijing - more sights and sounds
This is a top pick! ... as concrete, 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 Great Wall of China!!!
This is a top pick! ... features a most awesome luge down and the gang tore up the longest luge course I've ever seen! Back in Beijing after a 2 hour traffic delay (normal apparently) we revisited the hutong house for some bbq and beer pong. Nicky and I ...
Five Days Trip In Beijing
This is a top pick! ... from Beijing North Railway Station to Badaling Station, but good luck didn’t stick with us when traveling back from Badaling to Beijing North Railway Station. All seats were taken. I saw people chose to sit on the ground, but I chose to stand in ...
Subways, Fried Centipede, and Neon
This is a top pick! ... the additional lines into the future: what about lines three through twelve? The three lines hardly cover the vast expanse of Beijing, but it's a start. KFC, McDonald's, E*TRADE, Rolex, Porsche, Hagen-Datz--they're all here. Despite the modern ...
The Summer Palace
This is a top pick! ... We spend most of the day at the Summer Palace. We were the only people here the last time I was hear in 1989 when Beijing was under marshal law. It was very crowded today. The story of the Summer Palace is that the Queen took the money from ...
The Happy Excursion
This is a top pick! ... out in the street. My favorite clothing store in Beijing: "That Person Is According to the Clothing." Just before leaving Beijing, I visited the Old Imperial Summer Palace with Yael from Israel. One of the major attractions was the "Sea of ...
Hutongs and the International Watering Hole
This is a top pick! ... Being a huge concrete jungle that dwarfs most cities, Beijing amplifies the heat (and pollution). Right near the Gobi Desert, Beijing isn't blessed with periodic respites from the heat when the wind shifts to northwest. Trees are desperately needed to ...