Longwu Jingpin Hotel Beijing

... look at Beijing night life. The restaurant is called Xiao Wang's Restaurant , the english name really doesn't sound like anything special, but in fact this is the most interesting restaurant I've ever seen. It's located in the middle of a park called Ri Tan Park. My cousin and I met up at a subway station and started walking towards the restaurant. The restaurant was own by a foreigner, and because it is very close to the ...

... laughter. "If any of these girls didn't die of fright on seeing General Zhao Wei, I would be amazed."

"Don't underestimate us," replied Huo Qingtong angrily. "We will send someone back with you immediately. Pick someone yourself. Whoever you choose will go. You will see what spirit we followers of Mohammed have," The Muslims roared their approval and everyone began shouting "Choose me! Choose me!"

... are xiao ban ke, or drill sections where there are only 4 students and you are asked many questions using the structures. Then we have a break, sometime in the afternoon each student is scheduled an individual session of 50 minutes. These are actually amusing most of the time (depending on what teacher you get) and go by quickly. You also are able to learn a lot of useful words through drawing techniques and basically word guessing games on ...

... Some of the ancient alleys have disappeared, entire neighbourhoods bulldozed to make way for ritzy new buildings. The extensive redevelopment of historic Qianmen Street, a Ming Dynasty-era neighbourhood near Tiananmen Square where old buildings were torn down to make way for Disney-style replicas -- and high-end fashion shops -- won't be finished in time for the Olympics. Some restaurants have vanished, too. In Beijing, one of the pleasures of summer is lounging at ...

... are heading to the Great Wall on a class trip...cool... SMELLS: His friend Kimbo bought a bike and is using that as his main source of transportaion...he loves it... He did say that he has smelled some of the worse smells he has ever experienced on the bike...thousand year old smells...really gross... PEOPLE: Everyone has been very nice He has been assigned a translator from the ...

Thie has been our third day in China. After the excursion to Xian of the day before, we make up for lost sleep, due to the jet lag and the early up of the day before. We slept till 11. When we asked for breakfast in the hotel's restaurant, the maid has watched to us in strange way and has pointed out that they were preparing the buffet for the lunch, so we drank only some tea. As it was too late to visit the Forbidden ...

... restaurants and in homes we've read, yuk. Also we've not got used to seeing toddlers wearing chaps with nothing on underneath but I guess it makes it easier when your child says they need a pee so you don't have to pull their trousers down in the middle of the street, as we seen a couple of times. We get lots of stares too, I suppose it's not surprising, we stare a little when we come across whities too, and sometimes smile and nod. I can see a ...

... invaders. Day Three was spent exploring the Summer Palace and the Temple of Heaven. The Summer Palace is highly underrated and we wish we had had more time to meander around the lake and Palace Grounds. This is one of the first public places in China that we've seen with lots of grass but not a blinding amount of signs telling you to keep off the grass. It was a lovely park and especially more enjoyable because ...

... shirt 180 yuan. July 20, 2007 Beijing, China Our last big tourist attraction in Beijing is the Temple of Heaven Park. The park is only an hour's walk south east of our hotel. The entrance fee was 80 yuan for both of us, and that included admission to the Temple of Heaven, the Imperial Vault of Heaven and the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests. It was, in a word, heavenly. There's a circular wall around the Vault of Heaven which is supposed to have an Echo Wall ...

... on about 2 hours sleep from the train the night before. Up for a 7.30am start to the Great Wall today. We went to the Simatai section which is supposed to be the most 'architecturally interesting' and it was pretty gorgeous. The cable car was shut for the winter, so we walked up a steep path for hal an hour, a frozen resevoir, and reached the wall. Fortunately I bought a 'great wall' wooly hat from a bloke in the carpark, so as well as ...