Paradise Sunshine Beijing
No.6 Eastern Street, Beijing Station Beijing, 100005, China
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Safe and sound!!
... In a few hours I have to be ready for my first tour. I am going to the Forbidden City and a few other things. Hope you all had a great half day at school and are getting ready to have some turkey tomorrow! I'll be eating Peking duck!! Ohh ... and on that note ... I was given an interesting snack on the plane. A "Salad Meat Floss Roll"! I don't know what's in it but I sure was tasty. Check out the picture. I'm off to bed.
Ms. Machado
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... entrada, ahora vamos a hablar de la "Gran Capital", Beijing...
Continuando el relato anterior, el trayecto en tren desde Ulán Bator hasta Beijing fue bastante tranquilo y sin mayores altercados. Como dato interesante, en la frontera china tuvimos que esperar cuatro horas y media ya que al parecer China utiliza diferentes carriles ferroviarios que Mongolia, y tuvieron que cambiar las "ruedas" de todos los vagones del tren en el que íbamos. Fue bastante divertido ver como ...
Getting to Mutianyu
... which leaves from a bus station very near our accomodation, and goes every half hour until 8am. So at 7am we arrive at the bus station, and speak to a very bemused [non-english speaking] bus director. Much hilarity with international sign language ensues - with lots of people waiting to catch the rush hour bus trying to interject. They send us off down the dual-carriageway, saying we can catch a bus there. Three similar ...
Great Wall of China
... it seems like they're paying you to take it! I ended up with a lovely light grey cashmere MaxMara coat for NZ$50 (fake of course), and James got a black waterproof NorthFace jacket for $45, and two t-shirts for about $6 each. There were some gorgeous shoes that I wish I'd bought but we were trying to be sensible. We had to make ourselves leave as it was getting to be way too fun!! Next time I'm bringing an empty suitcase. Or two. ...
Sunny days to Cloudy Haze...
... such high prices for tea and made our way after one cup! At times we felt stressed through the rushes of people pushing, shoving and staring but as we finally arrived at the 365 Inn the feeling of relief shot through us. Whilst checking in we both read a sign on the wall, "Take our advice.....1. Don't follow strangers into tearooms!!!!" OooOhhh!!! So as we found out shortly after, it is actually a very well known scam for English talking Chinese students to take you for ...



