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Huatongxin Hotel Beijing

No.1 Gongti North Road, Chaoyang District Beijing, 100027, China

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The "Big Smoke"?

A travel blog entry by arikandcharis

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... including many other strange animal pieces our minds have since blocked from memory. We went for one of the tamer options.

A note about Peking Duck - the secret is (supposedly) in the fatty skin. Therefore a good duck chef slices the duck meat in a way to maximize duck fat and duck skin in every bite. It makes for a bit of a heavy meal.

Day Two:
Our days in Beijing started with meeting our driver at around 8:00am and ...

Out of Mongolia

A travel blog entry by grubear

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... what Catholics do when lighting votive candles near the front of a church. There were also two mini temples containing a figure of a god (one was the Guan Yu character) where you could put money into a little box to support the monks, pray, and light incense. Some of our TA’s did just that. I asked them if they were Buddhist and they said that no, they weren’t. So I asked them why they prayed in a Buddhist temple if they didn’t adhere to ...

China Day 1

A travel blog entry by roz524

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... I woke up at 5 am, stared out my window and checked out the lay of the land. Then at about 7:30 am, Katie and Rose (They were on the same flight as I) knocked on my door and we went downstairs to meet Dr. Sun and to have breakfast at the campus dinning area. After breakfast, we met all the other students from USD.

Today was the first day of exploring Beijing. I was surprised by all the huge buildings throughout the city. It looked ...

China: La hora de la verdad ?

A travel blog entry by sebastido

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... y es algo imperceptible al turista promedio.

Finalmente, el respeto por la naturaleza y el trato hacia los animales también son materias en donde hay grandes tareas por desarrollar. Para ir a lo concreto, en China los animales son vistos como una fuente de alimentación ó una fuente de entretención. Eso es bastante triste. Algunos avances más bien tímidos se ven en materia de reciclaje de desechos. Ojalá por nuestras latitudes entendamos también que somos parte de ...

Happy landing

A travel blog entry by sogone

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Made our way, bleary-eyed to a luxurious hotel, with luxurious prices too... for china.
Plush towels, beautiful bathtub (ahhh, the last hot bath for a month!) We watched new year fireworks from both our airplane windows and our hotel windows. ...