Jinjiang Fuyuan Beijing
No.11 Ronghua Road, Bejing Economy Technology Development Area, Daxing District Beijing, 100176, China
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Toto Goes to Heaven
... on the paving stones, dancing, singing, playing mah jong, hawking fake Rolex watches, and generally having a great time.
After an excellent lunch we climb aboard bicycle rickshaws for a tour of the rapidly-dwindling hutong area. These common dwellings used to be ubiquitous in Beijing, but developers prefer to use the land for high-rise apartments, so they have been razed for the most part, ...
A Beijing Hot Pot
... machines, like those in Japan, will operate in English, but I'm not prepared for the machine's refusal of my two 1 Yuan notes - it requires 1 Yuan coins, something I haven't seen so far in China. Fortunately, I'm helped out by the man at the next machine who swaps me a couple of coins for my notes. You get a long ride for your 20p, but the Subway Stations are quite thinly spread and it's a 30 minute walk from Qiamen to the hotel. I arrive some 9 hours after leaving ...
Beijing - first impressions!
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Train
To buy a train ticket you will need to show your passport or the copy of it and in most cases pay with cash. There are special ticketing windows for foreigners or I should say a windows with someone speaking English. In Beijing Station it is currently window no 26. There are also other places where you can buy a train ticket but these are just a hole in the wall and only Chinese speaking person will typically know about these places ...
Great Walls and Forbidden Cities
... We got stopped again by a group of school girls who interviewed us and took a picture of us. On our way back to the hotel we stopped by the night market, sampled some uninspiring food and looked in shock at the baby shark on a kebab stick!
Having booked a sleeper train to Pingyao we had a little of the morning and early afternoon to check out the Olympic stadium. The only thing of entertainment for me here was the random Disney characters ...
Chamber Choir's First Concert
... Beijing. The Hutong's beginning dates to the Zhou Dynasty (2,250-3,000 years ago) and is a series of narrow streets separating courtyard homes in Beijing. The visit to the local home included a rickshaw ride with pairs of travelers being driven by one driver, the peddler. They navigated narrow sometimes winding streets scattered with bricks and mortar used for the spring season's reconstruction efforts now just beginning. There were also bicycles, pedestrians, workers ...



