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Houhai Lake at Night-Jingshan Park-Chinglish
Houhai Lake at Night
Our current location puts us just a few blocks from the Back Lakes. Qianhai and Houhai Lakes are connected by a small bridge and are surrounded by a pedestrian walkway. Over the last decade this area has built up to a real nightlife destination. There are bars, restaurants, teahouses, dessert shops, souvenir stores, bike rentals and boat rentals surrounding the southern section of these lakes. ...
Beijing 3: The Great (Invisible) Wall
... ideas.
But alas, after the Mongol invasions, the wall really began to fall into disrepair, with much of the sections now either down to ground level rubble (where farmers steal the stones for their own fences) or soil and dirt having littered the top and turned them into wild gardens of weeds. Only several sections are in a reasonable enough state of repair that makes it easy for tourists to clamber up and down. Near Beijing there are ...
Chinese National Acrobatic Troupe, Ft. Lew Gorman
... barrier made the clown’s act even funnier. Using motions only, he explained to Lew that they needed to hold a limbo rope for the "lovely assistant." She proceeded to slither her way under the rope, very sexily. Then it was Lew’s turn. Now, most people would be embarrassed and the awkwardness would have been funny. But instead, Lew hammed it up and even showed up the assistant with his own Lara Croft shimmy under the rope, surprising the clown ...
Day 2
... with trying to get the taxi, taking the bus, getting lost, and then being sent the wrong way when asking where it was, that I had to do it). I made an expensive international call on the iPhone to Matt. Not sure how much the damage is yet, but the frugalness deep down in side of me hurt a little...especially since the call lasted 1:03 minutes and AT&T will likely charge that as 2 minutes. Fortunately, he was able to quickly guide us in the right ...
China !
... the pavement so steep in places. Another one of those wonderful experiences; actually standing onThe Great Wall of China. It was a bright sunny day and yet the wind was cold and there was even some snow lying on the ground in some places. It must have been freezing up there, guarding the border on cold winter nights. Ironically and surprisingly, The Great Wall didn't actually do what is was built to do, i.e. keep intruders out - the ...


