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... out of the water with it's english descriptions. Stuff like acid moo. Unfortunately I didn't have my camera on me, otherwise I'd have been snapping every page. We then went to the bar on the top floor of the hotel for some relatively expensive gone off Corona. Apparently the date on the bottle is when it's made not when it's to be used by. The taste implied ...
Beijing: a week in the belly of the beast
... rose early to make our way to a little-known section of the Great Wall by public transport. We had been approached several times by touts selling tour buses to the well-developed circuses disguised as historical monuments, such as the Badaling section of the Great Wall which was described by a fellow traveller as “a huge queue in a tacky theme park”. Instead of paying a high price for what we considered to be more or less Hell on Earth, we opted for the more difficult ...
Arrival at Beijing
... of his people and pray for a good harvest. Off limits to the common people during the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Temple of Heaven is situated in a large and pleasant park that now attracts early morning practioners of tai ji quan.
THE FORBIDDEN CITY
Forming the very heart of Beijing, the Forbidden City, officially known as the Palace Museum (Gugong), is China's ...
Visit to the Imperial City
... of the best parts of Beijing was the food. We could eat a whole meal of baozi (steamed meat buns), bought right off the street for only a dollar or so, but eating in a courtyard restaurant was the most fun. In old Peking, the city was divided into hutongs, or neighborhoods, and each hutong specialized in a different trade or wholesale item. People lived and worked in the hutongs, sharing common kitchens and bathrooms, and some of the hutongs still exist today. ...
Great Walls and Great Feeds
... cooked meats and fish in a spicy sauce followed by a few cocktails at a bar by the lake. The multitude of neon lights managed to look spectacular rather than tacky with reflections dancing off the lake.
We spent the rest of our time in Beijing in a fairly relaxed manner, indulging ourselves with long lie-ins. We saw the Forbidden City and spent the remainder of the afternoon in Jinshang park. The last couple of days were mainly shopping days, interspersed with a pedalo ride on the ...
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