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You shall not pass! The forbidden city ;)

A travel blog entry by nmaskus

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Well it's not that forbidden anymore! So Keith and I took the subway with the rest of Beijing to the imperial palace. It was hot and sunny. We were over dressed. The city is huge! Far bigger than anyone could take in in one day. There are five "layers" with a gate to the next leading to the imperial gardens and of course to some gift shops... Of course. We weave in and out of the crowds, find some snacks and sit in the shade, people watch and keep on going. The highlight was ...

First Impressions

A travel blog entry by ztbrown

... got into Beijing, and almost immediately, the prim and proper, clean and ultra modern sights I had seen up until that point had given away to the dirty, chaotic, how-can-this-many-people-live-in-one-pl ace-ness of the city Beijing. Cars drove on the right, and followed the instructions of stop lights (most of the time) but that was about all the rules I could see them observing. People on foot and bikes non-nonchalantly darted in and about the moving traffic in a way that made ...

Characters, Calligraphy, and shopping oh my!

A travel blog entry by ellainecabellon

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... are the only one of the three ancient written languages to survive until today (the other two being Egyptian and Sumerian). I love the idea of the written Chinese language especially because it is largely an ideograph - basically meaning that no matter what dialect of Chinese that you speak, you should be able to understand the WRITTEN language even though you may not understand the SPOKEN. For example (as I tell my students) - numbers are an ideograph. ...

Beijing and the AMAZING Great Wall!

A travel blog entry by andyandfran

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... it was nice to go to the Forbidden City because I've read a lot of books based on it and, taking away the crazy tourists, it's a lovely palace too. We were starving by the end of it so headed through the street of beggars and salesmen to a local restaurant, where we were all highly entertained by the English translations of the dishes. Andy's favs were: 'the peasant family stir fries flesh for a short time', and also 'first rank sharpens the edge laughing at'. ...

This City is Forbidden!

A travel blog entry by chelshee

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... Before we could make it to the street, though, we got distracted by a lakeside tandem bicycle rental. It was no question that we had to try the bikes, so Joey and I took one and Chen Min and James took the other, and around the lake we went! It was so scary at first, because Joey was in front and thus in charge of my life! I had absolutely no control over the bike, accept that I could add to our speed a bit by pedaling. It was also scary because there were a lot of people on the ...

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