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Peeking at Peking Part 2
... It was quite a slow trip through the traffic to get to the Hutong, the area of old original Beijing housing. Not many of these areas remain as most were bulldozed to make way for high rise housing. The remaining ones have been heritage listed and are highly sought after. We met Daniel, our guide that will take us through the narrow streets to a house within the Hutong. To get there we all climbed into rickshaws ...
1st week Beijing
... order 2 meals (chicken,beef) and rice and only eat 1/2 of it. It was never expensive about $10-$12 with drinks.
We went along Snak Street just Wangfujing Street. On offer were snaks on sticks consisting of scorpians (alive), sea horses, star fish, water beetles, centipedes, silk cocoons, birds etc. Later in another snak street we saw sheep penis on a stick as well. You select which one you want and they cook it on the BBQ/hotplate so it is nice and fresh ...
Aujourd'hui débute la découverte de Beijing !
... voir la quote ci-dessous, rien à se tirer à terre mais le guide local nous a acheté du Saké alors on tombe là-dedans...). On quitte ensuite pour notre soirée culturelle: l'Opéra de Beijing. On nous avait bien dit que c'était plate à mourir... Je m'étais imaginée que çà allait me donner une p'tite heure de dodo de plus... mais essayez de dormir avec Bobinette qui fredonne en soprano, un joueur d'égouine pis un joueur de cuiller de bois en arrière ...
Temple of Heaven, Muslim Quarter, National Museum
... gates and flag but decided not to chance it with the many police there. To take the stairs to the subway you had to first put your bags thru an xray machine. The subway had english machines where you could be a single journey ticket for 2Y (.30 cents). Surprisingly for a saturday morning the subway cars and platform were jammed full. I ...
Final destination...Where did that year go?!
... What do we have to do to be understood here! Anyway, we show him it on our Lonely Planet map also and we guess he knows where he’s going so yet again we put our trust (and lives) in the hands of an erratic taxi driver.
Driving into Beijing takes us almost half an hour and when we reach the city we see signs for Tiananmen Square so we know we’re close. The taxi man does a bit more consulting of our handwritten Chinese characters and ...