Kunlun Hotel Beijing

... br><br> It was at that moment that Luo Bing's throwing knife flew towards Tong. Zhou detested Tong, but he couldn't allow him to die in the Manor. With no time to consider the matter carefully, he quickly threw one of the iron balls in his hand at the knife. It hit the knife with a "Clang" and both knife and ball fell to the ground. <br><br> "Ah ...

... lobby of the museum there was a large statue of Mao. We started in the Hall of the Agrarian War which began in 1927. There was a large statue of a gun and a big bronze statue of soldiers and a horse. There was army flags of the Peasant Self Defense Army. There were photos, weapons, uniforms, paintings, maps and statues. <br><br>In the rest of the main level and outside there was a Merit tank, MIG 17 (Soviet), Howitzers, anti-aircraft, captured tanks, armored vehicles ...

... to be a Great Wonder. We went through 32 towers and at some parts, we had to get off the wall and walk along side it as the wall was too damaged. Some parts we walked through were actually very narrow and others very steep. The wall follows the mountain ridge so our hike was very up and down. At the end we crossed a river on a suspension bridge. Ernie wouldn't take a picture of me on the bridge, even though it was a cool picture! (I think it had to do with me running ...

... our 20+ hour trip West. Peter and our van arrived at 9:30am for a ride to the airport. Arrived early for our 1:30pm flight (Beijing &gt; Tokyo) and spent a few hours at the Air China lounge...got a love the VIP lounges. Flight left the gate at 1:30pm and proceeded to sit on the tarmack for 2 hours before takeoff...an auspicious start to our trip to Hawaii for a little R &amp; R. Got to Tokyo less than an hour before our connecting flight to ...

... who spoke English) last night and I experienced the Beijing nightlife, which was surprisingly similar to what we would expect back home - really great night actually! Although the Chinese have seen Westeners before they still seem fascinated and continue to stare and make comments - I even got asked by a couple of girls to have a photo taken with them - celebrity status isn't all it seems, they didn't even ask for an autograph!

hi everyone!!! Wow! we've been in bejing for 3 days and havent stopped since we arrived! we started a tour on wednesday and are with 14 other people! who are all very lovely might i add! I didnt bring my camera to this internet cafe as we're in a rush but i gues you guys can wait right? well, very briefly, we have done so much since i last wrote! we went to Ueno Zoo, Tokyo Disney (which had some awesome parades) and since we've been here we've been ...

... Chinese Lunar calendar to seek the blessing for a fruitful year, and again in the winter solstice to burn sacrifices (read: a whole bullock) and report of the previous harvest. So we saw the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvest which was gorgeous and the three tied roof was made without a single nail or screw, just interlocking slats into the columns. It was closed unfortunately, so I don't have pictures of inside. We also saw the Round Altar where ...

... long bus ride to the restaurant from the airport. Beijing isn't what I expected it would be, at least not yet. It's a big city, with a lot of wide open spaces but also a lot of concentrations of tall buildings. We couldn't see very far out because of a thick layer of something, either pollution or haze or something, but driving on the freeway certainly wasn't anything exciting. We passed a couple of fields of trees that were planted precisely and in perfect ...