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Stranded in the Sea of Beijing
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Tuesday night we had a little dinner out with the Americans and Bonnie, our camp leader from Quzhou (the first summer camp) and my dear friend. Wednesday night the CSETC group set up a KTV night for all of their workers and for the foreign teachers who were in town, which was a lot of fun! We all love KTV, and had a great time that ...
Free Days- GWC!
... the peaks was THE great wall! We said hello to a chinese looking lady in chinese presuming she was chinese but she turned out to be a yank, thats about all that happened on the chair life, was just a standard chair lift really. But when we got to the top the view of the wall was amazing, literally one of the best things I have ever done- to see such a world famous historical place was pretty good! When we got to the top we took ...
Pronounce That!
... called Ciqikou - I just hope I don't have to ask anyone for directions as I haven't a hope of pronouncing that! The subway ride also takes 45 minutes and costs just 2 Yuan (20p), which is incredibly cheap, although the trains are very crowded. There are beggars on a few of the trains.
After getting off, I emerge onto a large concourse leading to the "Olympic Pagoda" and the stadium, now called the "National Stadium" or ...
Bouyaou!
... the day! Did manage to get out the city one day to see Suzhou, a city nearby known for its gardens and museum. Sods law, ended up raining all day so we bypassed the gardens, but the building of the museum is famous as its a fusion of modern and traditional China (apparently).
Harri took some time of work after that, and we went travelling to Xi'An and Gunalgyu Island, on the south-east coast. The city of Xi'An is good to go out to eat and walk down the ...
East meets West, for 2 hours.
... phenomenon, but it was beautiful. It almost looked as though the sky was on fire.
This was one of the longest transit days of my trip so far, and one that I was glad to end. I had hardly slept in 28 hours of being on the move, maybe 3 hours at most. But not all was bad. I had made it to the other side of the planet, I was going to see some family that was long over due to see, and I made a great new friend out of the travel. ...



