Yuyang Hotel Beijing

Travel Blogs from Beijing

A relaxing day

A travel blog entry by laowai_teacher

... that; the attention I garner often becomes overwhelming, and sometimes I just need someone to regard me as "one of the group." I am definitely that with Dajiu. I feel like a family member already.

We left, but Dajiu left his cell phone on the restaurant table, and we had already exited the gate. He used my phone to call it, and the restaurant staff had kept it, so it was safe. I returned home with him, but he took his bike back ...

A (Week) Day in the Life

A travel blog entry by ztbrown

... and I can largely tailor the class to suit things I'd like to work on. One day it might be spoken Chinese, the next it'll be writing characters. The atmosphere is very relaxed and open -- she doesn't grade me on anything -- and the individual attention does great things for my budding Chinese skills. Not to mention that the class, as with all the others, is taught entirely in Chinese.

:12:01pm: I'm out of the 1-on-1 and in the student lounge with friends. ...

The First Few Days in Beijing!

A travel blog entry by ricao

... 19 books or having to copy them ourselves 19 times. So, they took us to a 复印店 (fu4yin4dian4) which basically means "copy shop." They handed them the textbooks to copy and me and Chris were to pick them up tomorrow and bring them to school. All 19 of the books. Sheesh. Once that was done, Chris and I went to our hotel rooms where we slept the whole day because of jetlag, skipping dinner.

On Sunday, we had ...

Hutongs, Hooters and Hoikers

A travel blog entry by mikeandsheila

... produce is a dribble of spit. I'd hate to see it if there was a bad head cold running through the neighbourhood.

Our advice to anyone coming to Beijing for a visit would be to try and stay in a Guesthouse or hostel in or near a hutong. If you want an authentic Chinese experience this is the best place to get it. Also, if you are planning to travel deeper into the country, then the hutong is the perfect place to get up to speed with the Chinese way of life, warts and all. ...

Temple Time

A travel blog entry by ger_and_jane

... of my guidebook if you would like to borrow it or you could just scroll down to look at the pics.. Turn your oven on and sit beside it and you will have a good idea of the temperature we had that day. After being templed out we headed back to through the Hutongs to our fantastic room for an early night before taking on the wall.

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