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The three returned to their room. Xu picked up their knapsacks and left a small silver ingot on the table in payment for the room and the food. Then they went to the stables, led out three horses and galloped off eastwards.

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... of 6. A bit stuffed but we could sleep and 24 hours later we would be in Beijing. The coach was shared with 2 old people from Hong Kong and a Russian couple. The man from Hong Kong could speak very good English, but she was a bit of a " witch" No English, and all she did was look at us and the Russians as if we were thieves...The Russian guy looked as if he was from a movie...the one were he would be the bad guy....but a nice and friendly man. He obvious did his ...

... cute, especially since there were some tiny animals wandering around. It's on a little porch with an outside section as well. By 11 it was clear that it was a nasty day out and it wasn't getting better. After a brief rain shower, we decided we should get a taxi to the Lama Temple before it started pouring.

The Lama Temple was originally built as a palace for a Ming prince, but was turned into a Buddhist temple and monastary and is now Beijing's most-visited ...

Day 15 Friday 16th January - Onboard and arrival in Beijing. Got up at 8am as the views were supposed to be nice as we go through China. All we saw was lots of mountains from the train and lots of poor areas with run down houses and rubbish tips. As we pulled into Beijing there were lots of power stations and large chimneys, it looks very industrial. As we pulled up in the station it was packed so we waited on the ...

... in English. There were some foreign workers from Russia and Australia there, but we were the only white students who came. Yesterday was by far one of my most favorite days on the trip. We visited Prince Gong's Palace at Ho Hai. I took a class with Dr. Clark at Alabama during which we read one of the most famous novels from the Qing Dynasty entitled "Dream of the Red Chamber". This five volume book was written to be set in this ...

... Cassandra bought. I ask how much. The price starts at 140. No, no, I say. That is way too much. I offer 10. He tells me in so many words that I am crazy, this is real jade, see? I tell him I will go to 20, no higher, He says 80. I tell him no, still too high, I want to pay 20. He is pretty tough, says he can't go that low, but he will give me the beautiful lady discount of 50 yuans. I sigh and tell him that my friend must be ...

... was absolutely phenomenal..a lot of shaolin monks doing kung fu..with the story of how Kung Fu started included..Very much like the one I dragged you to see in London dad..except here you bring packet popcorn and pop it in the microwave in the theatre foyer! how funny! It did remind me of me and you Christina practising our Kickboxing in your kitchen all those years ago..obviously the monks are just slightly better than we were!haha. Getting back from the show was hysterical..we ...

... rode the 7kms to the meeting point and 7kms back after, but at least my lungs had a rest in between. I also went to the Jiuchang Art District open day, called "artWALK". Jiuchang Art District is a new art district out in the middle of the old industrial area (Depresso-land we dubbed it). The galleries were amazing, all converted old warehouses, but I didn't get to see them all so I will have to have another trip our there. The exhibitions were great too (see ...

As promised, the Cy-Fair Duck visited the Tiananmen Square today! It was a hot day, but there were still thousands of people visiting the Forbidden City and the Square across from it. Some parts of the Forbidden City are undergoing renovation, so I decided not to take a look at ...

... as they're cheap and great! Who knows? Tomorrow we're off to Tianamen Square, The Forbidden City and the Imperial Summer Palace. This is awesome! Angie just spotted some magpie like bird outside our window that was making a strange noise, and cannot stop imitating it. "ShhckChik-ChikChik". Very amusing. J