Hotels in Beijing - Prices and Reviews

Today we had a late start. We had to meet at 9am. We are going to Confucius Temple. I was up early so I used skype to call my wife. We spoke for an hour. We were talking about how quick the time is going.

We all met in the lobby. We are going to the temple by subway. The Beijing subway is very easy to use. Our stop is called the Lama tem...

So...its been 5 days in Beijing and its been really good!! Beijing is a great city, quite chaotic but again quite ordered, more than I expected. Its really clean for a city and also very clean. There are people and cars everywhere, and there's a great contrast between the super wide roads with lines of traffic and really small alleyways, all sho...

It's a War zone! So today is the Latern Festival which ends the Chinese New Years celebrations. That means fireworks, lots and lots of fireworks. I mean, there were a lot on New Years, but I was in a small city of Jinghong. This is Beijing. The skyline is constantly illuminated like we're finally being bombed by Taiwan, the sulfur in the air in ...

It takes a lot of faith in your guidebook to get on a random public bus and trust that you'll be able to get off at (and recognize) your destination. Our goal today was the Summer Palace, about 12 km outside of the city. That was a long way by public bus. We took the metro to get closer and then found one of the buses that was supposed to go nea...

This is the start of our trip. We have the usual tourist destinations of the Great Wall, the Forbidden City and Tianeman Square. The most interesting aspect of our stay in Beijing was getting used to life in China. There are so many people and strange foods and no English. We actually moved our hotel so that the taxis could find it. Beijing is m...

China, Wow, our time here is only short but it is already clear that I am going to have to come back here to do it properly (although apparantly you never can cos there is so much to see). We are limited to two places, Beijing the capital and then we are moving to a place called Xi'an to at least get to see some of the rest of the country. Beiji...