Yonghe Hostel

No.35 Dongjiaoming Alley, Dongcheng District, Beijing, 100005, China | Resort

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Sittin' on the dock of the Beijing, wasting time

A travel blog entry by puddlejumpers

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... driveway, but once inside the building courtyard, we could see the restaurant. There is *no* way you'd find it if you weren't looking for it.

The menu contained many popular Sichuan dishes, and we ordered several that we'd enjoyed when we were there last year. Ma Po Dofu (spicy braised bean curd in a meat and fermented bean sauce, with LOADS of chilies and also LOADS of the mouth-numbing Sichuan peppercorns), braised chicken with chilies (easily 50% ...

后海

A travel blog entry by timmarkhuff

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I haven't been able to right an entry for several days because travel pod has been blocked. I'm not sure why, but some websites occasionally get blocked and then unblocked a few days later.

This weekend I went with a group of people to Houhai and Beihai. Houhai is a lake in Beijing(the area around it is also called Houhai) and Beihai is a nearby park that requires a small fee of ten kuai to enter. Houhai is usually ...

Beijing and the Great Wall

A travel blog entry by cptjack

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... day I imagine the stones were very slippery

Once we climbed down from the Wall we went through a market on the way back to the bus. Most of the knickknacks they sold had nothing to do with the The Great Wall except maybe the words "The Great Wall" were printed on them. Surprisingly, there were a camel and bears. The bears were actually pretty said to see.

Since it was a ...

Don't Judge A Beijing By Its Cover

A travel blog entry by caseyk

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... hostel that seems to be a real westerner hangout. Mental note to go back for a Tsing Tao. The pingy music is issuing from a tiny old man, face wrinkled into almost featurelessness, playing an instrument looking like a cross between a banjo, violin and mandolin with something attached to his knee and foot also taking part in the sounds. He was beautiful.

The streets are alive with people and children running around, playing with neon toys that zip up into the air ...

Temple of Heaven, Tianenmen Sq. & Forbidden City

A travel blog entry by littleboylost51

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... read somewhere that most of the lamp posts have
CCTV cameras keeping an eye on us all and that about half the people there are
likely to be plain clothes police. Perhaps this is an exaggeration!

In actual fact it was better than I had expected. After putting our bags through airport type scanners we entered the square which had a nice positive atmosphere. It is a huge area but
the concrete is broken up by ...

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Location

This resort, located in the 崇文区曲 area of Beijing, is near Forbidden City (Imperial Palace), Summer Palace (Yiheyuan), Tiananmen Square (Tiananmen Guangchang), and Nei Ting.
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