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Cindy’s Hutong – Hutong Dong Xi Ba Tia
... plans, she fought tooth and nail to save the family property (all the way from her life in Australia). Through brilliant navigating of the bureaucratic system and corruption, she ultimately was allowed to save the property. So she began an elaborate renovation. She said they rebuilt much of the property from the ground up and then added an extensive rooftop terrace. She has also modernized everything with ...
Out of Mongolia
... the fan dance like we had every night we had gone but there was no room. As soon as the students saw us go in they followed us. I don’t think they intended too, but there were so many people that they were actually knocking over old people and people were getting hurt. As soon as I saw this I left the fan dance; the entire thing had been ruined for me unfortunately. Soon after the organizers shut the fan dance down which was a letdown for everyone. I ...
Hutongs
... just a metro ride away from the Forbidden City!
Even though we so clearly didn't belong there, we never felt like we didn’t fit in. This was life… real, hard-working, dependable life. How could a living, breathing person not fit in here?
Our accommodation was undoubtedly one of the best parts of Beijing. In a city that was already mysterious and incompressible to us, we discovered a completely different world by surprise in the hutong. ...
Seeing and Being the Sites
... world.
Trent - Tienanmen Square is 99 acres (The Chinese see 9 as a "power" number and we saw many uses of it as we were in the Square and Forbidden City).
Tienanmen Square (Gate of Heavenly Peace) is home to the Great Hall of the People where the Chinese legislature meets. Chairman Mao proclaimed the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949 from the Ming Dynasty gate and this ...
Wad you saaaaayyyyy!!?
... I was expecting and the one that I got were slightly different. Walking through the streets you get everyone looking at you, as though they haven’t seen a westerner before (maybe they haven’t). It’s not bad but a little strange but then I was expecting to see a few more non Chinese nationals here but walking around since leaving the hostel I’ve not seen one!! Walking into a typical department store you’re greeted by all the ...


