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Another Brick In The Wall
... that it would take about 1.30 hours to get there. Infact after the bus at 6.00 the next bus wasn't until 8.30 so I had a fair wait although I wasn't to know until it turned up. Virtually devoid of foreign tourists even the domestic tourists were abit light on the ground here which I took as a good sign. I got chatting to Tomas & Lorena who along with a French couple made up the only tourist on there. Tomas is from Chile and like me a long term backpacker. Lorena is ...
Day 11- A Long and Dusty Road
... the bolstering of our Chinese proficiency. They're excellent at jogging my memory in regards to things I learned last year, but we haven't really learned anything new since we got here. In addition, they really don't know how to handle the other students in the program. Over the past two weeks, people have been consistently late, missed class repeatedly, failed to pay attention in class, disrespected the authority of the teachers by talking over them and having side conversations ...
Una cuestión de ortopedia
... lados; pero dice la medicina es muy buena, muy barata y disponible para todos. No salió nada roto en mis rayos-x y el doctor, después de volver a hacer cola y darle el carné, me envió una medicina tradicional china para la tendonitis, que fui a comprar a la farmacia del hospital, y me dijo que descansara. Esta semana no podré turistear mucho porque sí me duele el pie bastante. Al final la visita al hospital estuvo interesante pero que bueno que no ...
Tiananmen Square and Forbidden City Tour
... Where she once lived in the palace as a Concubine when she later became powerful, she re modelled and extended these areas and once again lived in that area of the palace. She became so powerful as a figure behind the Emporer; she basically ran the show back in her day.
Around the perimeter of the Palace are large pots; these were filled with water to allow the Fire Brigade to put out fires when they errupted. They were ...
It's actually called the Long Wall of China....
... in on either side… I would not want to be up there in rainy or icy conditions.
We then climbed a section of the wall which has not been restored at all, and was basically a stony path covered in trees. Whilst up on the wall I obviously ensured that I wore my novelty Chinese headdress and Rebecca and I ate panda cakes, which are not in fact made of panda (although anything is possible in China!), ...