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"He who has not climbed the Great Wall is not a true man." Mao Zedong Well, with this in mind (and I've kept this one a bit of a secret) I thought I'd go one better, just in case. On the 17th of May, I took the opportunity of taking part in one of the world's most extraordinary marathons, the Great Wall of China Marathon. It takes the runners twice over a stretch of the Great Wall of China near Huangyaguan Village, about three hours north of Beijing. Conceived as the brainchild of one Sören R...
Beijing, Beijing, China garybarnes
5-19-07 Beijing to Hong Kong After an action-packed morning full of blogging and packing, we set off for the Beijing airport. The hostel had given us a card with a map to the airport shuttle pick-up....it was fairly accurate but when we got to what we thought was the correct location, we could not see anything resembling a bus stop. Panning left, we saw several bus stops on the opposite corner - so we figured that MUST be the right area. When we got there, we tried to ask some locals who seem...
KOWLOON, Hong Kong romero
After a good night sleep we're ready to go. After breakfast we boarded our bus to take the tour of a Hutong. Once there we each got on a Rickshaw for a tour through the Hutong. These buildings are hundreds of years old and are designed in clusters. Its like a little city within a city. Looking very much like an alley, they are very narrow. Each living are in the Hutong has a gateway. Each Gateway leads to a central small courtyard. The gateway to each reflects the class of people living there...
Beijing, China shadowchaser
Finally the sky has cleared. Not the nice blue of home but more blue, less grey than the fast few days. After breakfast at 6:30, we hit the bus at 8:30am. Today's destination was the Forbidden City, Tiananmen square, The Summer Palace and a pearl factory. We found we had quite a day with about 3 miles of walking through the Forbidden City, into Tiananmen Square where our bus was waiting on the other side. The Forbidden City is located at the very center of Beijing and its size can only be app...
Beijing, China shadowchaser
I'm going to have to get by with a short blog today so please forgive me. What a packed day. We started off walking a few blocks away to an ancient observatory. At 94 degrees at 8:30am...it was going to be a long day. After this we started the drive to the Ming Tombs which was about one hour drive. After about 1.5 hours there we stopped for lunch which had to be one of the oddest combinations of Chinese and American Food. Along with the rice, some fish part soup we had french fires and chicke...
Beijing, China shadowchaser
July 24, 2007
Beijing to Ulan Bataar by train
Our train tickets to Ulan Bataar, which we bought at the CITS office on the mezzanine at the International Hotel in Beijing, together cost us 1998 yuan. We have the deluxe soft sleeper which means we have one compartment all to ourselves. This train is often called the Trans-Siberian Railroad, but more properly called the Trans-Mongolian Railroad. Many, if not most, of the people on it are headed to Moscow. So we can still get away w...
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... salimos del aeropuerto eran mas o menos las 4pm en Beijing, es decir las 4am para mi... Nos fuimos en taxi hasta la universidad...queda medio lejitos..en el camino tome varias fotos. Beijin tiene varios edificios modernos, es una ciudad muy grande, con smog, parece nublada todo el tiempo, en algunas cosas se me parecia bastante a Bogota. El trafico es bien pesado en horas pico. Mucha gente anda en bicicleta, mas que todo bicicletas viejas y como estilo antiguo ...
Beijing, Beijing, China linis
... Beijing is first of all the city of food, everywhere you go you have somebody selling food, you have different smells every 5 meters, mixed with the smells of tea, and the caramelized loly pop fruits! They have 8 differents types of food in China, and you can find them all here it's simply amazing, i wasn't that ...
Beijing, China karimico
... ambulance and certainly no heli rescue available, so we had to be very careful. It was tough and the video we took will show the steepness and danger, but it was also exhilarating to walk on a wall that soldiers had walked on over 2100 years ago. After lots of sweat loss we approached the Simatai tower, the end of our hike. As we saw the umbrellas around the tower we knew we were close, we hoped skipped and bounded up the final slope, rounded ...
Beijing, China gregjul
... less touristy but is still very much so. There is a chairlift up the the wall for these who can't handle the hundreds of steps up and the hawkers are as determined as anywhere else. The site is well out side the city and thus the air is much clear and we had a beautiful day. Part of Beijing's air problem is from sands being blown in from the Gobi desert and we saw some of that in a distant valley. The Government is planting millions of trees ...
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