Jinjiang Inn - Beijing Xizhimen Inn (Olympic Games Special)

... from Australia or New Zealand and a few from Holland actually. The parents usually have been avid travellers way before they had children so the kids didnt hinder them at all when they came along.

There are a few more sorts out there like the lone women travellers but they are few I think. At the end of the day I dont think it really matters what kind of traveller you are as long as you love what you are doing and have fun with it.

Cheers, until next time...

... they basically were like Ramen. When we landed, the plane was boarded by some health inspectors who looked kinda like something out of a science fiction movie. They wearing goggles that looked like they were from chemistry class, long latex gloves and a surgical mask in addition to their very official looking uniform. They took our temperatures, luckily none had a raised temperature. By the time we ...

... zaradi velikosti kot zaradi materialov in popolnosti izdelave, ampak je imelo tudi simbolni pomen kot sedez bozanstva na zemlji. Ob pogledu na vse imenitne stavbe in razkosje danes je povsem lahko razumeti, zakaj so imeli cesarji tukaj obcutek, da so dejansko bogovi. Zelo zanimivi so tudi zgodovinski dogodki, ki so se tukaj odvijali ob velikih prelomnicah. Gre predvsem za dogodke ob menjavi cesarskih dinastij in ob razglasitvi republike Kitajske in ukinitvi ...

... alleyways that are either originally old or refurbished to look like the old Hutong style.  It is a part of the city where the buildings are small and the streets are cobble stone.  The streets are also lined with tea shops and boutiques.  I would compare it to Des Moines east village...but that is a stretch.   Tuesday at 6:30, we arrive at the Backpacker's Hostel where we are put on a van full of foreigners for 3 hours.  We among people from Belgium, Spain, America ...

... would have been. In fact, if I were he, I would not have gone on this trip if I thought even 25 percent of the distraction would have occurred. Five Boeheims and I finally boarded a cable car, and one of Jim's children noted there was a sign in it that said "U.S. President Bill Clinton rode in this cable car on (some date)." Just another Presidential footnote to my trip, I guess. The vistas from the top of the wall are more amazing than one can ...

... og vi fik set både en restaureret del og noget som stadig stod i sin originale tilstand. Ved de populære steder er muren restaureret(totalt genopbygget) fuldstændig, hvilket i vores øjne ødelægger hele konceptet. Turen var næsten 4 timer og det var ikke en flad strækning, men på ryggen af en bjergkam. Lidt hårdt. Vi mødte et par danske medicinstuderende som vi gik og talte med på hele turen, så det var hyggeligt. Det er især rart at få bekræftet at man ikke er de eneste med det syn ...

... that is Yak." Yummy...good and good for you... Tuesday, Wednesday, pretty much all the same... The highlight of these days was probably a two hour seminar on how to use a high tech label printer so all the different departments (Engineering, IT, Telephones, etc.) can all label our cables (be they Triax, Coax, Telephone, Cat 5, etc) in all the stadiums, and venues all in an uniform manner. The problem was the guy who was giving ...

... looking in appearance none of them took that much interest in me. I did however, get hounded by an old Chinese woman who was telling Rosie and I that we could get a free medical check from her. This medical exam would be done entirely from taking our pulses and then she would be able to tell us exactly what was wrong with our kidneys, livers and hearts! Eventually we managed to lose her but she shouted after me that I should really have a check up because she could ...

(Welcome to another exciting addition of China Travelpod. Rotational reporting continues with M Dubbs giving you the play by play.) Bird's Nests, Fake Bags, & Back Alleys - Beijing's Future, Present, and Past So after two of the MOST AMAZING days in Beijing, what can you possibly do to give justice to the third day? Well you hang out in an Olympic construction zone, kick it with Louis Vuitton at the Silk Road, and play Euchure in ...

... this temple's creators believed that this spot is where heaven meets earth. All rituals here are driven upwards by the acoustics allowing emporers to commune with God. Now, the same spot holds about 6 tourists at a time whispering prayers of their own. Again the National holiday means more people than usual - mostly out of town Chinese tourists. These people aren't used to seeing westerners, so I was attracting attention again. All was good though, sometimes ...