Beijing Ccecc Plaza

... are those most people would rather choose to walk the road ahead, in others to open up and dig out the old road to walk, although the look is very safe, but because too many people walk all the wealth and resources have long been occupied. Even if the lucky discovery of a small portion of the crowd will certainly be vying with the divided flock. Walk this way, how it would be a big gain?

... ll treat me less like a foreigner); then I realised once I start walking slower at the shops and ask for a price, the shop owner will not let me go. If I asked for a price and then walk away, then they will say 'ok, you give me a price', if I continue to show uninterested and walk away then they'll start reducing prices. This is the first time in my life that I haggled prices, LOL, quite nervous the first few times I did it. To be ...

... but we have to be careful to not drink the tap water. We can get boiled water from down the hallway and we use that to brush our teeth. For drinking we rely on bottled water, but it’s difficult to find really cold water here. We have a little mini fridge, but it basically just keeps our bottles at room temperature instead of hot.

One difficulty is that we won’t get internet in our own rooms until sometime next week. I can get online here ...

... of the Sea of Wisdom. Some consider it a miniature Potala Palace, the famed palace of Lhasa in Tibet. Maybe it is really so. I've not been to Tibet yet. But either way, hardly fifty metres above the Tower of Buddhist Incense, we realised that for some reason we couldn't get up there. In other words, we arrived at the end of our ascent on the Longevity Hill. Since it was so, we took a few more pictures and headed back down to the lake. Of course, the descent is always much faster than ...

... the fist lock is not used but will be when the water level is raised so we had 4 locks to go through. Huge things, fitting 6 large boats each. Once all in the water level drops 20m really quickly before you go into the next lock. They had also planned for an elevator for smaller vessels but seem to have run into some technical difficulties getting the calculations slightly wrong and realising it was going to be really heavy to lower a ship along with water on cables! No ...

... place called Suzy Wong's we were not let in because we were wearing sandals. (we had dresses on and looked really nice) So now we are mad and really wanting a beer and cannot find our friends so we looked at our book and found a bar to go to that was close and then decided we wanted to dance so we found a club called Bananas. Once again this is on a Monday night and we walked in and it was PACKED and HUGE. It is very odd how big and crowded it was. We had fun and drank some whiskey ...

... mi řády (odjezdy busů bězně okolo sesté ráno, větsina městských autobusů jezdí tak do 21h, metro končívá půlnočním spojem v 22h a tak) i například rezimem ve spacích vagonech, kde světlo náhle vypínají někdy právě v půl desáté (na to pozor, az budete chtít číst na dobrou noc průvodce na dalsí den;)) a budí hlasitou skočnou hudbou VELMI brzy ráno. 4.8.2007 Peking Na dnesek je naplánován výlet k ...

... very kind. Even with the renovations, the Forbidden City was incredibly impressive. After the Forbidden City, we wondered over to Beihei Park, where we became local celebrities! A group of Chinese tourists, not sure if they were a family, but they weren't wearing matching hats, so I now it wasn't an official tour group, were very excited to take pictures with us...many, many pictures. This was ...

On Saturday, March 24, we met early for breakfast and then left for the Great Wall. We hiked the Great Wall and actually rappelled off of it. Our lunch was at the "Commune at the Wall." That is an interesting collection of houses and buildings which function as a hotel, a restaurant, a conference ...

... of people live in single family homes made of logs or wood. Cars seem to be common nowadays everywhere I've ridden throughout Russia. Most common is the Fiat 124 based Lada and you also see them parked on the side of the road, hood up every 4-5 kms. I've also seen a few sidecar rigs stopped on the road. I've stopped for every bike, but I'm waved on by every owner. Bet they don't realize I have a full tool kit in my sidecar ...