Hotels in Beijing - Prices and Reviews

Day 14 Thursday 15th January - Onboard the Trans Siberian to Beijing Woke up at 6am and got showered etc ready for breakfast at 7am as we were being picked up by Jenny at 7:20 to get the 8am train. We all did our usual trick at breakfast and wore combats with lots of pockets to fill with stuff from breakfast to do us for lunch. The transfer to t...

Alarm clock at 6.30 and we're on a roll. The plan - finish packing, breakfast and then taxi to the nearby check-in station for the airport express train. That is until I have a mental review of the situation and realize that I've packed the US dollars, needed for the local payment of the China trip, in the other cases. Oh s.....hucks! Revised pl...

Hi guys! Well back on the train we got and off to Beijing we went! The journey was not so bad only being on the train for two days (and this time we had air-con, wooo!) although the group got seperated and me and Carlien were in a room with a mother and baby!!! He was about 6 months and really really cute and I called him Mongolian Ryan :) I man...

Right, made the mistake of not keeping up with my postings and am now suffering fatigue as I take this last opportunity to tell everyone about Beijing before we jump on the train to Mongolia tomorrow morning. In short Beijing has so much to offer, particularly if you are lucky enough to know people who would kindly wait for you on the street at ...

Ni hao from China!! Ok, so I know I have been rather delinquent in keeping in touch with the rest of the world while on this trip to China...and I swear I meant to keep in touch with all of you--my favorite people in the world--but, somehow half of my summer program has already passed and I have done a horrible job of keeping you guys updated wi...

China, Beijing : We decided to make a 2 days trip on the great wall, we rent some sleeping bags and front lamps, we bought some stuff to picnic, and headed to Jingangling for sunset, we walk on the great wall for one hour with the moon light as a guide, landscapes were astonishing. We had some troubles with guards because they want us to pay a f...

I think I just needed some time easing back into the backpackers life and getting back into the 'real world' outside of Singapore. I've really enjoyed Beijing the past few days. Yesterday I went to the Temple of Heaven Park and while there were beautful temples, I thought the best of the temples were actually the people themselves. I woke up at ...

Sunday: Mao Morselium and Beijing Zoo First things we did was Maos Morelium, right on Tian Amen Square. The longest queue I have ever seen and all Chinese, there was at least 25,000 people but the crowd moved quickly (very well orgainsed). Wheren't aloud to take picture but I though he looked a wax work covered in the Soviet Flag. Good to have s...