Beijing, China Travel Blogs

I took the bus back from Beijing to Taiyuan. The bus is full and I end up next to this Chinese guy, who speaks no English and cannot eat without smacking his gums and lips and cannot drink without slurping and who, with every movement I make, must stare ...

A travel blog entry by trent
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... 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 Olympic ...

A travel blog entry by bethverde
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... 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 ...

A travel blog entry by darkstar
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... 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 ...

A travel blog entry by foolsgold
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... 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 good.

A travel blog entry by foolsgold
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... 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 farm.* ...

A travel blog entry by marshallmatters
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... prepare myself for my trek in nepal...i think i might hike up a few mountains around china too as a warm-up. i've also spent time exploring beijing's 'communist' spots..tiananmen square and the surrounding monuments and buildings. the square is massive, ...

A travel blog entry by tofudan
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... 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 ago ...

A travel blog entry by darkstar
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"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 ...

A travel blog entry by foolsgold
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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, stories are ...

A travel blog entry by mr_rain
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... 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 make ...

A travel blog entry by madman96
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... nbsp; 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 ate ...

A travel blog entry by madman96
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... ; It would have been great if I wasn't really paranoid about contracting lice from the pillows.   I arrived in Beijing the following morning and easily found my way to Gulou Dajie, the subway station at the end of hutong where ...

A travel blog entry by guavamama
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... . The sun was shining and the surrounding scenery was amazing - if I'd have just slept for the rest of my stay in Beijing, I would still have been satisfied since this was one of the best experiences of my life. There was one exceptionally steep and ...

A travel blog entry by rich
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I went off to Beijing this weekend to meet my friend Justin, who I've now seen and hung out with in 6 countries (we think it's strange/cool), before he left on the next leg of his travels. I arrived and immediately was part of an attempted rip-off by an ...

A travel blog entry by trent
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... of the emperor, all three thousand of them, not sure if he was lucky or cursed, depends how you look at it. warm soup, and coffee, and are looking forward to our 16 hour sleeper train tonight. Loved Beijing, looking forward to whats in store in xian.

A travel blog entry by mills-mcshea
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... 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 travel blog entry by madman96
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... 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 feel, ...

A travel blog entry by lraleigh
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Some 50 kilometres north of Beijing the Jundu and Taihang mountains rise forbidding and rugged from the flat, green countryside. High atop one of the peaks an eroded stone beacon echoes a time long ago when warnings of impending danger were sent by smoke ...

A travel blog entry by darkstar
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... 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 Happiness ...

A travel blog entry by lraleigh
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... pours off everyone's foreheads and the city smells are intensified. 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 ...

A travel blog entry by lraleigh
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... 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 ...

A travel blog entry by lizandsteve
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... 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 was ...

A travel blog entry by charmedlife
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... 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 ...

A travel blog entry by marshallmatters
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... 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 now.

A travel blog entry by charmedlife
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... we have finally completed the Trans-Siberian (well trans-Mongolian for the picky) portion of our trip and have arrived in Beijing. The border crossing was fairly smooth and the bogie changing (with us still on board) was surprisingly efficient! The ...

A travel blog entry by emanddave
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... our way down towards the Temple Of Heaven. Unfortunately, the main temple itself is currently undergoing renovations (as most of Beijing seems to be - probably in prep for the Olympics in 2008). Its going to be wonderful when everything is complete and ...

A travel blog entry by emanddave
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We managed to get much more sleep on the return journey to Beijing; we swapped bunks, put earplugs in and took a travel pill that knocked us out for most of the journey.   We were back in Beijing for a few days before catching our flight back to the ...

A travel blog entry by gonetilwhenever
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... celebrated in Beijing. AsiaRooms offers to give you online information on Beijing International Beer Festival in China. An annual festival, Beijing International Beer festival is celebrated in mid-summer every year in tourist hotels around the capital. ...

A travel blog entry by happysheep
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Democracy banned in China1 That could be the headline, but in fact there is some level of grassroots democracy in China that most Westerners aren't aware of. We tend to think of China as ruled by the Communist Party but in reality the country is quite ...

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