Rhine House Hotel Beijing

... to end up going to a hotel and ordering one as the guys were refusing to turn there meter on and trying to charge us 400 times the price its not a lot of money its more the principle, I am always doing war with taxi drivers it is a nightmare.

Anyway the others are off to the great wall tommorow, as I have been there I shall no doubt be doing something different proabley the summer palace, looking forward to it!

... cousins of mine, and have done!”
“What you say makes your meaning clear enough!” Miao-yü said, when she heard his reply.
“Is this rain water from last year?” Tai-yü then inquired.
“How is it,” smiled Miao Yü sardonically, “that a person like you can be such a boor as not to be able to discriminate water, when you taste it? This is snow collected from the plum blossom, five years back, when I was in the P’an ...

... s only a blinking zip wire to get you across to the other side!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sorry mum!!! Seriously huge gorge and I tell you my bowel movements kicked in!!! It took us about 20 minutes to build up the nerve to do it!! So she strapped us in together and we jumped off on a wing and a prayer (and a lot of screaming...see video ha ha!!) We giggled so much when we got to the end it was such an adrenalin rush -) Anyway our 20 days in China and around ...

... he knows. Finally, since guides are not as necessary in the big cities as they are in rural areas, if your trip is limited to Beijing or Shanghai and you don't want a guide, my advice is to hire an English-speaking driver through your hotel's concierge and to stay at a highly rated property that caters to Western business travelers, because these typically have the best concierge desks and English-speaking drivers. http://www.concierge.com/cntraveler/art icles/11931?pageNumber=20

... emperor says to build a wall from here to there you just do it and don't ask questions. I have also read that the wall made for a useful transportation highway, so at least it was good for that. It's hard to describe the amazement that you feel standing on such a structure so I'll just let the pictures do the talking. After the wall we returned to Beijing, had some supper and then returned to the apartment to catch the opening ceremonies of the Olympics on TV.

... their mouths is horrendously high, I mean really, over the top! In the same fashion, your first offer should be way below what you would want to pay. After that comes a period of 5-10 minutes, when both sides try to convince the other that what they offer is the appropriate amount. It doesn't matter much what you say, as long as you talk to them for the required 5-10 minutes without raising your offer much. When they still won't back down, you can always start walking away, and ...

... Games will be more than 20 times the price of nowadays. This news caused quite a stir among other householders having seen the post. This so-called once-in-a-century opportunity has induced some homeowners to decide that they are moving out of their own houses and moving to southern Beijing temporarily during the 2008 Olympic Games. "Only for one month, I am ...

... a street seller with meat inside that we can't figure out (dog?) but which is delicious. Our hostel is really nice and set in a Hutong area which is very quaint, the area is very run down to what a western person would imagine, but is very busy in parts and quiet in others with the loacals just watching the world go by or playing cards. It is a great place to walk around and lose yourself both physically and ...

... traditional Chinese areas with small winding alleyways, inhabited my Beijing's poorer residents. Whenever he rides his bike around the hutongs and people ask him where he's from, the nan pengyou tends to answer 'Korean', because he's a little afraid to admit his nationality. Once he answered 'Japanese' and got a very cold reaction. Much of it is from the war. Japan often agitates the Chinese over the events of sixty years ago, and every now and then (for ...

... we stuck it out. played cards with the family that was housing us. sleeped in a freezing yurt. met some other people from beijing. rode horses like i was john wayne. drank mongolian alchohol with a alchohol content of 70%. we brought small knives with us just in case someone wanted to rob us. lot of good they would do. however adam got drunk and passed out so when someone tried to barge in at 4 in the morning i was the only one standing guard. that was a ...