Guanganmen Hotel Beijing
No.9 Chezhan East Street, Guang'anmenwai, Xuanwu District Beijing, 100055, China
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Cindy’s Hutong – Hutong Dong Xi Ba Tia
... and most use the communal bathrooms for all of their business. A family might sleep in a tiny backroom and run a small tailor business in the front room. They may eat by buying a lot of the cheap street food. When they do cook, it might be a small electric burner they put on the ground of the street. This is a very simple and poor existence.
Each day we walk through the hutong to get to the main ...
Out of Mongolia
... 10:00PM. We spotted Vang in the middle of the square with her students surrounding something on the ground so we went over. On the ground was a balloon, and the kids and Vang were writing on it. She told me that her kids had bought this balloon for her, that you were supposed to write your dream or wish on it, and then they will light it and send it off into the sky so that your dream reaches the heavens. She asked me to write my dream on it, so I did.
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Peking Duck
... was very nice, and the clientele was mostly just like us – foreign tourists confused about how/why to make a duck pancake with radishes.
Local Duck
The next night, we walked about five minutes up the road from our hotel, following the directions of one of the hotel staff. We walked in, and the Chinese staff perked up at the sight of us exotic tourists coming into their restaurant. Our waitress ...
Seeing and Being the Sites
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We had a great lunch with a huge Lazy Susan in the middle and we all filled our plates from the dishes there. The plates and glasses are very small - half the size of ours. Ahhh . . . I think that this is the answer to the obesity problem - instead of supersizing everything, we need super small plates.
EELS!! Yes - we encountered huge eels at the Blue Zoo after lunch . . . and ...
Wad you saaaaayyyyy!!?
... One of the other guys pops out to the store and picks up a bottle of Mongolian liquor and I don’t remember the end of the evening.
I wake up in my dorm bed not knowing how I got here, which is never a good start to the day!! It’s the 3rd of March and as I’m leaving in a day or two I really need to get my train tickets booked so I can complete the route I have penned. As I’m not feeling the best today would be a good day to do it so ...


