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Beijing Take Three
... of the wall - even a Subway and a KFC (Did I mention Badaling is a VERY touristy place to view the wall).
The Wall itself is fantastic though. What a sight! And what a feeling to be at one of the Seven Wonders of The World! I had been worried about the crowds but the other people enjoying The Wall were friendly and equally elated to be at such a marvelous place. There was a great camaraderie amoung everyone as we were all huffing and puffing our way along ...
The Great Wall
... of my Chinese teachers. We missed the first train because our teacher accidentally got on the wrong subway so, we waited on the next train for about an hour and a half. During this time, we played cards and ...
Day 21
Day 21 A semi lazy day today, hit the footpath at 8am and headed for the subway to catch a train to the Temple of Heaven Park, once again mainly to people watch, funny stuff. Ballroom Dancing, men playing with Kites, doing push ups and playing with YoYo's. Also in this park is the Temple of Heaven, a round Temple with heaps of public space and marble marble and more ...
Forbidden city
Hello everyone,
Wow, this is the final blog from China! Tomorrow we return to Canada! I think everyone in our group is ready to go home with their little ones and start to establish routines in an evironment that we're more adapted to.
Today we saw Tiananmen square and the Forbidden City. Tianamen Sqaure is the biggest square in the world (roughly .5kmx.8km).Some of you may have heard of it before. Our guide, Vivian, ...
Traditional Beijing tourist stuff
... the city. They were pretty and the area quite compact, though the idea of putting old battered and weathered rocks or dead trees on elaborate plinths seemed unusual to use. It was, however, nice to be under the trees and in the artificial caves/ grottos. We left by the northern Gate of Divine Might (all gates have 9x9 gold nails- considered lucky), looped around and back in again.
We went around to the Hall of Mental Cultivation (now on the right centre of the Inner ...
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