Kuangye Guesthouse Beijing

Hoy llegamos en el tren de Shanghai, agotadas. Nos dirigimos al metro para ir hacia el hostal y dejar las bolsas.

Por lo visto era hora punta en la estacion de trenes porque tuvimos que esperar en una cola larguisima para comprar tickets para el metro y para entrar. En estos momentos es cuando te das cuenta de la cantidad de gente que vive en China. Para ser exactos 1.3 billones. En Beijing hay 18 millones, como Madrid tres veces. Aun asi, Shanghai, con 3 millones de ...

... teacher education is similar to that of a pre-service teacher who pursues a masters before starting teaching. They spend 4 years in a bachelors program to learn content knowledge and 2 years in a graduate program studying pedagogy. We enjoyed the time at the university. It has about 15,000 students with 1,600 faculty. They also spent time talking about education and education reform in China. Most of China's ...

... af i anledning af det kinesiske nytår) spredtes rygtet hurtigt. Anthony og jeg tog derfor vores cykler og cyklede turen ind til tårnene, for at se, om det var sandt. Da vi kom nær, var vejene ganske rigtigt spærrede, og der var ild i det ene tårn. CCTV-tårnet er byens nye stolthed og stadig under opførelse. Det var heldigvis ikke selve det kendte hovedtårn, som var i brand, men en anden del af komplekset, det andet men også meget imponerende tårn, som står lige opad. Da vi ...

... 6. There were about 15 other people on the bus with us most of who were middle age but there were also 3 young adults like ourselves but from Spain who we ended up talking to and seeing later on the trip. The bus to the Wall was a 3-hour ride where we saw people using the street as a table, using the street to separate seeds, using the street to sell items, sheep being herded and two accidents. Needless to say it was a pretty exciting journey. At ...

... and once supplier of between three and four million a year, lay empty this week. Outside in the streets, ex-employees lolled around snooker tables set up on the pavements. Xu Peng, its manager, has cut his workforce from 300 to 100 in two years, saying raw material costs were up more than 30 per cent, wages 15-20 per cent, while the rising yuan was hitting exports. One extra problem was that in its effort to control inflows of speculative "hot money" into a rising but still not freely ...

... wearing the dignity of age and the pride of tradition that so strikes love and respect in the heart. From his right hand hung a bell shaped object, about a foot deep and draped with blue cloth. He paced slowly past me and around the hedge, descending into the garden below. Stretching his gnarled arms up into the tree, he hooked the bell to a branch. Carefully he pulled the cloth to reveal a magnificent bird cage beneath. Inside were the most ...

... god to walk along. People seemed magnetically drawn to walk on god's turf. I scolded Travis for doing it. Before we left I wanted to see the seven star stones. When we got there I counted eight stones and gasped at the error. Then we learned that when the Manchu dynasty took over it added one more. You see, the stones represented the seven provinces of China, and Manchu really, really wanted to make itself felt as being a part of ...

... The roofs of the buildings are ordained with small creatures at the corners, the more creatures the more important the building. Walking through the Palace took us around two or three hours and sadly by the end of that the architecture has gone from cool to rather repetitve and dull. Not to mention that the coolest courtyard, the center one that is most ...

... They are not unkind but David is 6'6 and I am very blond so we are sort of an oddity. We caught a taxi and went to a Peking duck dinner. the building was 6 floors high. although we were number 57 it took only 20 minutes to get in. we were the only non Chinese there. We were the center of attention when we walked into the dining room;. Several people took our picture (sitting and eating...) and one ...

... was kind of scary, and I was impressed by the number of elderly people who made it up so high. After the Great Wall we flew to Xi'an. We arrived late so we ate and went to bed. The next morning we went to a museum that I would compare to the natural history museum and then to the Wild Goose Pagoda. We asked our tour guide what the name meant but he just told us some made up answer that he thought was funny. I'm going to have to research to find out the true ...