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Guosheng Hotel Beijing

No.16 West Station South Road Beijing, China

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Beijing: Goodbye China, it's been emotional

A travel blog entry by whichwaynow2011

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... a gritted-teeth attitude in the current working population. Real hard work that is missing from many Western work places today. I was coming to the conclusion that the poverty-shrouded times of China in the 70s and 80s has provided a population who are eager to 'get' lest it runs out. This means 'me first' at any opportunity,


That's enough ramblings... it's off to Beijing central train station now and Mongolia as the next stop. So long China, it's been emotional.
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Gettin Into The China Flow

A travel blog entry by josiahinchina

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... some personal makeovers. I was the recipient of the most dramatic of these. Besides wearing clothes in a style that I had never really rocked before I also had my hair straightened and styled. I was super happy with the end result but I had never seen myself looking like that before. I'll put a picture or two up so you too can gawk at the stranger before you.
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Hundreds of Years in a Day

A travel blog entry by 2bestfriends

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... sneaky tricks and fake currency to rip you off. I am mentioning this because this was the one and only time in Beijing we were warned not to buy any of the (poor quality) trinkets.

I thoroughly loved Kunming Lake. I don't know if it was because it was a sunny, blue sky kind of afternoon, or because it was so hot the breeze off the lake was a small relief. Also, thanks to the clearer weather I was able to see that Beijing is actually surrounded ...

Balls Deep in Beijing

A travel blog entry by dccshamrock09

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... night. They had exemplary characters, and were very interesting people with whom to converse. They left us with one decree: that once we get old and successful as themselves, we would have to get together and do the same thing with some young Michiganders we run across. Arriving back to the university at 2:30 posed one major problem: all the gates except the front one close at midnight, and our taxi dropped us off at the back one. Serving as a little ...

What’s So Great About This Stupid Wall??

A travel blog entry by tricialebel

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... wearing, gun toting Chinese warrior ready to shoot anyone who stepped out of line. We were scared to even turn to talk to each other. A wave of buses came within 30 minutes of our arrival in this area. We didn’t get on any of them. We did move closer to the front though. About an hour later, more buses showed up. We got onto the very last one that came through, and just barely. The four of us got seats and then there were spaces for 5 more people. This wasn’t a ...