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Beijing (again)

A travel blog entry by jimmy-ellen

One last night in Beijing before heading off to the Eternal City. Stayed at the Holiday Inn Lido close to the airport to avoid a long trip back in the morning. A bit out of the way from anything but still packed with yanks (who probably chose it for its familiar name - how unadventurous). Had a great last night meal and spent our remaining yuan on big jugs of beer.

Forbidden City, Summer Palace, Great Wall

A travel blog entry by voyager-sue

3/29/2007 Beijing, Forbidden City, Summer Palace Our tour bus was at port to meet us as promised. We were 8: Dave and Kathy, Suzanne and Woody, Jeff and Nanette (all from the Seattle area), and us. Our tour guide was Alan. He gave us a booklet from his tour company, Oriental Pearl, which was subcontracted to our tour company, Beijing Services. The …

A China II

A travel blog entry by lmkuehnl

... be doing a later blog entry to show case just the and another on the crazy signs.

After a restful night in the hotel we were all up and ready to head to Tiananmen Square, the Forebidden City and to "Old Town" for the day. The square is much as I rememebr it from 1996, but they have added two VERY large videoa display walls, I'm sure they were installed for the Olympics. ...

Prázdniny

A travel blog entry by masovy_kasparek

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n�ročn� a někter� z�žitku d�vaj� slovu peklo nov� v�znam.
O v�kendu a v ponděl� jsem l�čila svoje ganmao, protože mi bylo zase o něco hůř. Nicm�ně postupem času jsme vypozorovali, že je tu asi př�m� souvislost s n�vštěvami v centru, pokažd� je mi po n�vratu hůř, tak asi budeme muset omezit n�vštěvy ...

Smog and Sticky Buns

A travel blog entry by ruthii

... that we all got up and got moving to prevent further jet-lag later in the trip.

Our original plan was to head out to the hutongs, the classically beautiful and traditional backstreets that surround the major city-centre attractions of Beijing. Now, being a second-time visitor to the city, you would think that I would have remembered their location. However we wandered around (not lost, you understand, just taking in the area!) for a while in the ...