Jingfeng Hotel
Travel Blogs from Beijing
The Forbidden City (and some forbidden trains)
... get a train from Beijing to Hong Kong via anywhere in the next 20 days unless we want to spend 21 hours in a seat and arrive in the middle of the night. We admitted defeat at about 4pm and booked an expensive flight direct to Hong Kong leaving on the 5th of September. Ed is currently scouring hostels. Oh well I guess every day can't be a Forbidden City Day! Tomorrow we are getting up at 5.30am to do a three hour hike along The Great ...
Beijing & The Great Wall of China
... city, this really is a great way to travel, the trains stop exactly where they are designed to, leaving you with clear lines for entry and exit before a train even appears in the station, the stations are easy and clearly marked for finding your way around and a joy to a new start in the country. Beijing is really colorful and vibrant, I love experiencing new cultures and people and just watching is half the fun, the red lanterns hang everywhere ...
Beijing or bust!
... 1 consisted of a handicap toilet, stall #2 was a "western" toilet and stall #3 was basically a hole in the ground - give your thighs a work out ladies! I kept my fingers crossed for the handicap or western toilet because I wasn't quite sure if I was ready for this new and different commode. I was lucky and scored the western toilet - phew! We proceeded to the INSANE immigration line but forunately didn't wait all too long to get through ...
In which I finally unpack.
... pretty much everywhere... except in my room of course. I spent about an hour in the restaurant because it overlooks the (huge) lobby and it was interesting to watch all the people coming and going. At 10, I went down to meet the tour director. He was very nice. I ran into some more of the people I'll be on the tour with also. I have a feeling I'm going to be one of the younger people on this trip. :) At that point, I had no reason not to go exploring so I girded my loins ...
Learning Mandarin & Planning our Journey
... in a newspaper or magazine about contemporary China. This was supplemented with expat and journalist books about living in China, historical fiction, audio courses by the Teaching Company and Chinese movies with English subtitles that were recommended by Chiuhung, Harvey’s Mandarin teacher.
I had this sense that China was just so culturally and linguistically different from any other destination we had visited ...
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