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Transit
... the taxi ride into town we passed a lot of new architectually impressive buildings that lean towards the new money in China. My dorm was a couple of big rooms with two beds and two bunk beds in. It is nothing fancy, and my top bunk was too close to the ceiling meaning a lot of bumped heads. There's no internet in the room (and it is very slow anyway), and no ...
Beijing: a week in the belly of the beast
... were softened only by a distant circular pagoda surrounded by high walls which one could only admire up close after a hefty entrance fee.
But the evening ensured that the day did not end in an anticlimax. Together with their friend Stefan, a professional chef, Dawn and Philip led us to a vegetarian restaurant a short walk from their flat which specialised in 'fake meat'. Made from various incarnations of tofu and seitan, we feasted on a spread of dishes that tasted as close to ...
Arrival at Beijing
... it was not until the time of Emperior Qianlong, who reigned from 1736 to 1795, that the Summer Palace assumed its current layout. The palace is most associated, however, with Cixi who had it rebuilt twice: once following its destruction by French and English troops in 1860, and again in 1902 after it was plundered during the Boxer Rebellion.
TEMPLE OF HEAVEN
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Visit to the Imperial City
... a big city. Now, you may remember, that our city is over 1.5 million, but it really does feel small! And it's certainly not modern. In Beijing we could eat at restaurants with cuisines from around the world, shop for anything we liked, and take the subway to get around. Compared to Zhuhai it feels....civilized. I think we've been in China so long that things have become normal to us. It was hard for us to see Beijing with the eyes of an American. From what we can ...
Great Walls and Great Feeds
... past tower after tower of restored and partially restored wall until we started reaching rather wild looking wall. Slightly concerned we'd been walking nearly 4 hours already with no sign of our destination on the horizon we tried to ask some people for directions. The first people waved us onward but the second people seemed quite confused as they seemed quite adamant Simatai was back in the other direction. Knowing we hadn't passed through it we cursed the man who sent us the ...
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