Shanshui Trends Hotel (Beijing Hangtianqiao)
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Det RIGTIGE Kina
... med subway skulle man have sin taske scannet og kropsvisiteres. Generelt fik turister dog lov til at gå direkte gennem kontrollen i og med, at det ikke var os, de var ude efter, og at de gerne vil give et godt indtryk til turister. På den måde kunne man godt mærke, at det var et kommunistisk land vi rejste i. Der er mange politimænd over alt og meget kontrol af befolkningen!
Normalt er der flere timers kø for at se Mao, men i og med at det var lavsæson og meget ...
Finding the value of my life
.... Literally. I found out the value that I put on my own life today. While walking across a busy intersection I stopped abruptly, knelt down and picked up two hundred and one yuan. Not thinking at the moment, I wondered why the countless number if beijingers did not stop and rejoice and finding some dollah dollah bills y'all... Simply put. Their lives are worth more than the thirty five Canadian dollars that was lying in the turning lane, ...
Beijing Beijing
... 24 Emperors until 1911 when the Emperor abdicated/polietly got ousted. However he and his family were able to remain living in the inner palace until 1924. Some of the living quarters still contain furniture which is nice as it gave a bit more historical context.
The palace is surrounded by both a wall and a moat. The roofs are mainly orange glazed which is unusual, apparently orange was the colour of the emperor. We also learnt that the more little things that stick up on ...
Dec 2011- Day 7- Great Wall of China
... to our Beijing Host again!
*The restaurant is in a Chinese Countyard setting with many oriental decors which we took some time to admire. The food here was authentic local flavour, perhaps it was the weather, we enjoyed the food very much!
*Note: The traffic jam in Beijing was terrible, it took us half an hour just to move a short ...
Beijing and a number of firsts
... attention had been paid to the disturbing man dressed in railroad uniform who kept trying to talk to us and followed us through most of the park. There was definitely something off about him, something unstable and sinister. It distracted me.
And finally, we went to the Forbidden City, with its 1000 buildings all enclosed within high protective walls. It was home to emperors and their families (I imagine most of the ...