Hotels in Beijing - Prices and Reviews

The Sunshine Holiday Plaza... http://translate.google.com/translate?h l=en&sl=zh-CN&u=http://www.sunp laza.cn/jdjs.asp&sa=X&oi=transl ate&resnum=2&ct=result&prev =/search%3Fq%3D%2522beijing%2Bsunshine% 2Bholiday%2Bplaza%2522%26hl%3Den 8/7...Sorry for not updating the blog (8/7-11), we have been having fun in Beijing a...

A story from China Daily caught my attention. It outlines how the earthquake in Sichuan has changed people's lives, from their desire to shop, to their behaviour in donating blood. I recall after September 11, that many people changed their behaviour. Some people hooked up with friends that night, concieved children, or acted like they were on a...

Hello everybody peeps! I am writing this from a huge internet cafe in Beijing West Station waiting for my 13 hour train journey to Xi'An, home of the Terracotta Warriors. i have tried to catch up with the blogs that i have been missing, but will likely add to them as i remember more stories etc. Still having no luck with the photos...i have lots...

This is the first official day of the tour.  We went to Tiananment Square, the largest public square in the world it can hold 1 million people.  Next we went to the Forbidden City, home the the Emperors of the Ming Dynasty

Beijing / Yangtze River Cruise / Shanghai 9 nights / 10 days Day 01 to Beijing (D) Arrive in Beijing Capital International Airport. Met at airport by local tour guide and transferred to your hotel. Afternoon tour to Temple of Heaven, an exquisite example of Ming architecture served as an exclusive altar for Chinese emperors during the Ming and Q...

Today, we got up with the early birds, at 4:00am! As we hadn't slept very much because of jetlag, I was starting to feel that I would be soon able to boast having stayed awake for almost 48 hours! But the excitement of a tour in and around Beijing helped me a lot to jump out of bed on time and to keep my eyes wide open the whole day. We met with...

Still raining this morning, but this has never stopped us doing anything. So off we went to the Forbidden City, however the rain got so heavy our cheap Beijing umbrellas were having little effect! We hadn't even got close to the ticket desk and we were soaked, so we moved to Plan B and looked for the nearest shopping mall (luckily it wasn't far)...

The evening after the wall we were scheduled to meet Mie and Maria, two Danish girls we had met in Xi'an a week earlier. We went out for some dinner and chatted about our joint Chinese experiences with them. We stayed out until after midnight and had a great evening of laughing and giggling over the little nuances that make China travel quite un...

(*Note - this entry and all others regarding my trip to Beijing are copied from my journal that I took with me*) Sitting around our hostel, being lazy. My calves are sore from the hike and a cut on my hand is raw, but otherwise no worse for the wear. The night on the wall was one of the most amazing experiences of my life - I highly recommend an...