B&B Inn (Beijing Shaoyaoju)
No.3, A3 Building Shaoyaoju, Chaoyang District Beijing, 100029, China
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Dirt Market - Cooking Class - Play Date
... modern Chinese artists. Kaela got a beautiful painted phoenix for her room at home, and Hsing-ay got some small paintings of Old Beijing. I was very tempted by a Warhol type painting of Chairman Mao but did not buy. We also picked up some trinkets for Kaela's friends back home. Hsing-ay found some great stone benches she thought would work great in our backyard. Certainly is easy to do ...
Hazy Days in Beijing
... case the Chinese soldiers tied it into an elaborate knot.
Forbidden City – This is right across the street from Tiananmen Square and, like most attractions in China, is teeming with tourists. It was a walled city originally built for the Emperor and his wife (which is pretty mind-blowing), but now houses a number of small museums. You could spend a whole week trying to explore every bit of it, so Brooke and I just wound up seeing the Hall ...
Temple of Heaven, Tianenmen Sq. & Forbidden City
... While the distant views were hazy, the climb was definitely worth the effort.
After descending the hill again we were picked up by our driver to be taken for our evening meal. It would have been nice to go back to our hotel to freshen up before dinner, but the restaurant was nearer to the Forbidden City than to our hotel. We felt hot and dirty and to be honest as it was only 17.00 we were not really ready for a meal, ...
Birds Nests, bargaining and beers in Beijing
Our third and final entry into China, and in many ways, the beginning of the end as its from here we start the final leg of our journey, travelling by train through to Mongolia and Russia. We came to Beijing 3 years ago, 6 months prior to the Olympic games of 2008 and so had managed to see a lot of the key tourist sights then, leaving us with a more relaxed itinerary this time round.
Of course no visit to the Capital would be complete without a walk across ...
What’s So Great About This Stupid Wall??
... seats were taken. Double WTF. Why are these idiots running for a full bus?? The bus stopped, popped open its doors and people flooded their way on. Remember the train ride there where we didn’t have seats but they still packed us all in like frozen water molecules?? This was like a recurring nightmare.
The people almost seemed to get more and more desperate to get on these buses. Have you ever seen a zombie movie where the one live person left in the town is driving ...
This motel was formerly known as: B&B Inn Shaoyaoju

