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加油!
... him stamps from my travels and from the States once I went back.
After learning about Laoli's stamp collection, I took the subway to meet Dylan and Jake at the Silk Market. Dylan and I had been the previous weekend and Dylan had bargained for a suit at one of the tailor shops. The bargaining itself was a process, Dylan probably spent a good 10-15 minutes trying to lower the final price with the shop assistant, Beibei. Beibei pulled out many tricks, like ...
The Great Wall
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We got there, a lot was closed, but a few stall were open, and with various things on sticks, worms, centipedes, live scorpions, star fish, sea horses, lizards, silk worm pupae, water bugs, crickets, locusts, bowls of dog, cow intestine, chicken feet, there was other stuff I didn’t recognise there as well
I settled for 2 worms, deep fried and dipped in chilli, weren’t bad, just crunchy, then I had noodle soup, eating noodles with chopsticks is quite ...
Beijing
... The English guide was excellent and gave us a brief history of the area and the doorways of the various classes – 4 beam door for military officers, 2 beam door for lesser government officials and no beam doors for the commoners. It was interesting. We also visited a family home and saw inside – the family – mother father and daughter only do this now for a living. The parents have retired (in their 50’s) and take in tourists as a living. ...
If its not on a stick, its not worth having!
... up and out of the main city on the metro to the Summer Palace, not really knowing what it was and were thoroughly impressed! A massive area of temples and pagoda's and a huge lake. We wandered around for a few hours taking in the sights and eating buns!
We then hopped back into town and visited the Lama Temple with its immense overpowering abundance of incense offerings to Budha. It was all very jolly! We spun the prayer wheels a few times just for good measure and headed off ...
First weekend in Beijing
... a meal if you would like to call my breakfast a meal. We stopped half way up at a tree that had small berries on it, and the Chinese family I was with attacked it like crazy. Even the 70 year old grandma we were with furiously attacked the tree. I assume this was meant to be lunch, I begin to doubt coming to China.
The next time we stopped was because we came across what in the US we would call a weed. For ...