Xin Hang Lv Business Hotel Beijing

... my hotel. At the hotel I had a relaxing evening, enjoying a wonderful meal at the hotel restaurant. Later that night from my room window I was even able to enjoy the fireworks.

The next morning I met my tour guide in front of the Hilton Hotel. We drove to one of several sights where you can climb and walk on the Great Wall. We went to the one at Mutianyu which is supposed to be the nicest one. It is located about 90 kilometers outside from Beijing and it took us about 2 and a ...

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... like back home there was a big contingent of Asian break dancers in the club... We spent a lot of time talking with Jamel's friend Josh, who's a Masters Student in Chinese at UC Santa Barbara and decided he might as well spend his time studying for his thesis in China rather than back home. He's spent about 4 years between China and Taiwan (which is considered to be China here). He really liked hearing about our trip through South China and ...

Heyyyyyyy there everyone!! So Kasey and I jumped on a train from Beijing to Xi'an a few days back and well lets just say the train ride was one of the most brutal experiences of our lives. Imagine being stuck, packed like sardines, in the most uncomfortable seats you can imagine for 13 hours, it was sooooo pleasant...hahah...not! We made the mistake of buying tickets for the hard seats (because they are cheaper of course) instead of the hard sleeper ...

... Olympic event, as long as there is a Chinese team, the crowd goes absolutely crazy. I mean, pretty close to Montreal Canadiens Stanley Cup Finals crazy, or Italian football fans crazy during the World Cup. Usually Chinese value reserved emotion, and during the Olympics in Beijing, this is the first time I seen Chinese Nationalism at its most passionate. First event we went to ...

... view. you thus must stand firmly so that said little old lady will bounce off your pack, signalling you to turn to her and shake your head. this, of course, is only to make me feel better as an older chinese person does not understand why i have blocked her way, nor why i would shake my head at her. she is, after all, older than me and it is her right. so why don't we just let them all past if it is their culture? because, as i said, it is drilled into our heads from a ...

... news about what's going on is so withheld, that draws attention about the situation to foreigners here. the incident began RIGHT when we arrived in beijing, and the first day we tried to get some legitimate information on what was going on (as it ever so slightly affects our plans), we were dumbfounded at how inaccessible anything on the internet was. we only stayed dumb for a few minutes though, before realizing where we were. hellooo, big brother. talking to byron, our friend who ...

We have arrived in Beijing.....we thought we had landed in Wales when we first looked out of the window at the grey drizly world!! It soon cleared up though and yesterday was a beautiful if a little bit blustery!! On our first day we checked into our hostel and then set off on foot to the Temple of Heaven park, a beautiful park full of temples used by the emporer for worshiping ...

... nearly as aggressive as many of the other settlers selling goods along the way. I ended up paying three times what I should have for a t-shirt that says I climbed the great wall and a pack of postcards, but it was nearly impossible to bargain after that. Tuesday, we had an amazing lunch at a Taiwanese restaurant with Helen, a Korean social work professor whom I must thank Ken and Jill for putting me int touch with - although I'm not the best at ...

... which has a top floor bar famous for its view but we stumbled upon a place I had heard of and had been wanting to go: a Russian vodka bar where it is about 30 degrees inside and made of ice and they give you giant mink coats when you enter. It was hilarious but we couldnˇ¦t drink the strong vodka and were too cold to stay! By the time we got out of there and headed back to the Peninsula it was closed so we went home and passed out!