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Beijing Take Three
... been required. She didn’t observe many people buying anything either so she figured that the prices were to blame.
I spent the day wandering the hutongs and snacking on street food. The thing I love most about Beijing are the hutongs. These are mazes of alleyways which crop up in various places around the city. Sadly they are fast disappearing to give way to newer buildings. It seems that in these communities life continues in the way it has done for ...
Coqueteándole a un pollo
... mandarín, mucho tailandés entre ellos y un diccionario heroico nos dimos a entender. La maestra nos dio un par de caracteres y cuando buscamos la definición decía que era “conversación amable” que claramente no es “coquetear”. Luego nos dio otro par de caracteres que eran “molestar en broma”…. Ya nos íbamos acercando y finalmente le pegamos. Después, nos pasamos discutiendo, otro buen rato, como los animales alrededor del mundo también ...
Beijing
... there. Anyway at the end of the street there's a bell tower which I had a wander round into this square where kids were playing a game of footy and stuff and they had coffee shops etc. Was cool to see some local 'culture' if you will. So I wandered a bit more then stumbled across a street which had loads of older style buildings and loads of cool shops again. The network then opened out onto this frozen lake thing with basically a series of shops, cafes and bars ...
Forbidden City:Chinese ancient palace architecture
... 618–907). The Forbidden City was listed by UNESCO as a world Cultural Heritage Site, is now a popular attraction for the tourist from all over the world.
There are four entrances into the city, I bought an Audio Guide Device and begin my Forbidden City journey from Meridian Gate, and it's the main gate of the Forbidden City. Inside the Meridian Gate, there appear the Inner Golden Water Bridges. The Golden Water River of this section is very ...
Traditional Beijing tourist stuff
... gate (complex or what!).
We walked down past the government buildings towards Tiananmen Square. The square is really large and had some statues in (some I liked –the statue to the Liberation just in front of Mao’s mausoleum & others not at all- the obelisk like Monument to the People’s heroes in the centre). We saw Mao’s Mausoleum (behind the Monument to the People’s Heroes) but did not fancy going in, so we carried on to Tiananmen ...
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