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Travel Blogs from Beijing

13 Hour Flight to Foggy (or Smoggy) Beijing

A travel blog entry by admiralchang

The plane ride from Chicago to Beijing lasted 12 hours and 50 minutes. It felt like the longest flight I've ever taken, though I have taken longer flights. Part of it was that the plane was packed to the gills and the other part of it was that the in-flight entertainment system was not operating. So it was a 13 hour flight without any movies or …

Whirlwind Tour of Beijing

A travel blog entry by admiralchang

Thursday got off to an early start when I got up early because my body hadn't adjusted to a time change. It was about 4:30 a.m. and I decided that I wanted to charge my i-phone. I saw the surge protector that I packed so I grabbed it and stuck it into the converter and then I saw a spark and then darkness. I blew the fuse in the hotel room. I had …

Arriving in Beijing

A travel blog entry by al_deb_far_east

Flying into Beijing we were amazed at the amount of green parklike areas we could see from the sky and also the HUGE clusters of high-rise apartment blocks in groups of anything from 10 to 40 skyscraper buildings which we later found out are the housing villages in the city that have replaced the ancient Hutongs that have been pulled down. This …

Beijing

A travel blog entry by annekevdvliet

Annekevdvliet stayed here on May 29, 2010 during their trip titled: China.

Oxymoronic Beijing

A travel blog entry by appabob

Okay, who's bright idea was it to travel to this cold cold cold city anyway?? Beijing was cold, very cold. But surprisingly, Ern and I had enough clothing to keep warm, not bad considering we only have one large backpacker's pack each. I only had to buy a hat, but other than that, we got by on 3-6 layers of clothes; suffice to say we had loads of …