Grand Skylight Catic Hotel Beijing
No.18 Beichen East Road, Chaoyang District Beijing, 100101, China
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Day 4 Beijing Summer Palace
... nearest XiYuan subway station for 10 yuan. Sounds like a good deal so we took it. Turned out that quite a number of people who passed us at the bus stop were actually walking to the station anyways. There is an outlet mall at XiYuan subway station and pretty posh restaurant - Wu Lin Cha Guan. Looks like the area is being developed with the usual international chain including starbucks coffee, pizza hut, MacDonald's, KFC etc.
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Lost on the way to China
So...this is the last "pretend" update, as still @Macc, airport after munch time, flight early evening, what *have* I let myself in for...Manchester, Amsterdam and China all in "one day"...
jwwjnr1@yahoo.co.uk is good for China, especially if you want to be removed from this TravelPod ...
You'd mistake us for locals at this stage, honest
... wasn't quite the spectacle I thought it would be, for some reason soldiers had a big part of it sectioned off as well. Luckily caught the changing of the guards and as we were leaving the sun was starting to set which was quite picturesque. At this point you'd swear Tom's legs were going to fall off and so we hopped on the underground back to the hostel.
Headed out for dinner late enough after a long days sightseeing. Walked about 15mins up the road to 'Ghost Street' ...
Great Wall of China
... br> We drove an hour north of Beijing to a popular crossing point for visitors. We were urged not to venture on the portion of the wall heading westerly. It was at a 45-degree angle or steeper for several hundred feet to a guard tower. The people I saw coming back down were doing so on their butts. They must have been shaking when they got back down.
The portion that we hiked was not much steeper than an old staircase to your ...
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