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Travel Blogs from Beijing
Sittin' on the dock of the Beijing, wasting time
... the meal with a plate of sweet pickled garlic, a plate of pickled chilies, and a few more ingredients for the hot pot (a plate of "Four Treasures of Lamb": kidney, tripe, liver and heart; a plate of black fungus mushrooms, and a plate of green winter melon (an un-sweet melon with a texture similar to cantaloupe, and not a lot of flavour).
The hot-pot arrived shortly after, and the reason for the hot and steamy dining room became evident almost ...
Feeling like another brick in the Great Wall
... on the photos that stood as a polar opposite to some of the run down streets we'd seen earlier on our exploring. A dichotomy repeated in China many times of the super modern and rich to the poor and old. A country going places, but forgetting to take all inhabitants with it.
Our last full day in Beijing was to be our eagerly awaited trip to the Great Wall. "You're not a man till you've walked on the Great Wall" says the Chinese proverb, so I was ready to man up. Our rickety ...
Eiszeit
... ein paar zuviel Yuan gegen das uns Glück und Wohlstand bescherende Instant-Kunstwerk. Zu spät haben wir erfahren, dass diese Tour eine gängige Masche ist und wir naiven Neuankömmlinge sind prompt in die Falle getrampt. Immerhin hält sich in China das Lehrgeld in Grenzen.
Auf unserem weiteren Weg begegneten wir Snackständen mit für Westler eher gewöhnungsbedürftigen Spezialitäten. Um ...
Blog Standard
... their performers, one cannot deny that the 'Middle’ country’s desire to improve is backed by a willingness to put in the hard graft. And sometimes to ignore safety.
Being a BBC (British born Chinese), with a basic at best grasp of Mandarin brings both advantages and disadvantages. One advantage: walking into drinking establishments with big groups of Caucasians can make you look like a tour guide. This means on occasion staff will push a free drink or two ...
Don't Judge A Beijing By Its Cover
... threw our backpacks and ourselves into the taxi.
Ten minutes or so later, we were dumped at the corner of two streets converging. One corner apparently out of SlumDog Millionaire and the other from, by Karis' description, The City of God. Point being: we really didnt want to go down either street, but the address of our hostel had us walking down the City of God road, and really , where else would we have gone?
The naked babies running around were ...
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Other places to stay in Beijing
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The Peninsula Beijing
Wangfujing, Beijing | 5 star hotelfrom $1,588 -
Crowne Plaza International Airport Hotel Beijing
Shunyi District, Beijing | 4 star hotelfrom $139 -
Bohao Radegast Hotel Beijing
CBD, Beijing | 5 star hotelfrom $139 -
Holiday Inn Central Plaza
CCTV/W. Railway Station, Beijing | 3 star hotelfrom $68 -
Swissotel Beijing
Dongzhimen/Dongsi, Beijing | 4 star hotelfrom $97 -
Crowne Plaza Beijing Wangfujing
Andingmen, Beijing | 4 star hotelfrom $750 -
Crowne Plaza Park View Wuzhou
Olympic CBD, Beijing | 4 star hotelfrom $124 -
InterContinental Beijing Beichen
Olympic CBD, Beijing | 5 star hotelfrom $152 -
Crowne Plaza Beijing Sun Palace
Olympic CBD, Beijing | 4 star hotelfrom $104 -
Metropark Lido Hotel
Int'l Exhibition Center, Beijing | 3 star hotelfrom $110 -
Holiday Inn Beijing Chang An West
W. 3rd Ring/w. 4th Ring, Beijing | 3 star hotelfrom $68 -
Holiday Inn Beijing Deshengmen
鼓楼大街, Beijing | 4 star hotelfrom $88 -
Holiday Inn Express Beijing Huacai
Wangjing/Lido, Beijing | 3 star hotelfrom $74 -
Novotel Xinqiao Beijing
Qianmen, Beijing | 3 star hotelfrom $75 -
Holiday Inn Downtown Beijing
Xidan/Financial Street, Beijing | 3 star hotelfrom $87 -
Hilton Beijing
Yansha, Beijing | 4 star hotelfrom $1,200 -
Crowne Plaza Beijing Zhongguancun
Zhongguancun/Shangdi, Beijing | 4 star hotelfrom $127 -
Holiday Inn Express Beijing Temple Of Heaven
Qianmen, Beijing | 3 star hotelfrom $59 -
Shangri-La Hotel Beijing
W. 3rd Ring/w. 4th Ring, Beijing | 5 star hotelfrom $203 -
Sofitel Wanda Beijing
SouthEast 3rd Ring, Beijing | 5 star hotel$2,500 average -
Regent Beijing
Dongzhimen/Dongsi, Beijing | 5 star hotelfrom $1,400 -
The Great Wall Sheraton Hotel
Yansha, Beijing | 4 star hotelfrom $157 -
The Westin Beijing Chaoyang
Yansha, Beijing | 5 star hotelfrom $241 -
Beijing International Hotel
CBD, Beijing | 4 star hotelfrom $95 -
JW Marriott Hotel Beijing
CBD, Beijing | 5 star hotelfrom $214 -
Doubletree by Hilton Beijing
Xidan/Financial Street, Beijing | 4 star hotelfrom $121