Dayanlou Hotel

No.15 Yanqinglu Road, Yanxihu, Huairou District, Beijing, 101407, China | Resort

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The Great Wall

A travel blog entry by grainofsand

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... atmosphere there, with hawkers selling kites and glow in the dark toys - the sky was full of them. The National Stadium was just as impressive in person as expected and we got some great pics. We got a little lost on our way home and had to dash into a hotel and then hail a taxi to get back on track. We finally made it to a nice little restaurant we knew of at 10pm for a quick dinner before crashing. The Great Wall was really tiring - who knew it wasn't ...

The Most Populous Country on Earth!

A travel blog entry by lillianandadam

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... The Simatai section is an original section and contains some of the steepest climbs of the wall. The eight kilometer, three and a half hour hike also passes 22 watchtowers and several mountain passes. Needless to say, we were exhausted at the end of the trek!

China is transforming itself from a country of rural farmers to a modern society at great speed. A recent write up in The New York Times describes Shanghai as "a time capsule ...

Cycle to Mutianyu Great wall

A travel blog entry by longtail

... built some 1400 years earlier. And the Great Wall was repaired, renovated and expanded in the Ming dynasty. General Xuda began the construction of the Great Wall from Shanhaiguan , in Qinhuangdao to Mutianyu in1368.
There is one section of wall that was built 1400 years before, the others were built by General Xuda under the order of Zhuyuanzhang, the founder of Ming dynasty. Later it was ...

Great Wallin'

A travel blog entry by whitneethorp

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... is walking away or calling them “Brother” or “Sister”. They love it.

After Beijing, Amanda and I came home and met with Martina about booking our tickets home. Technically, our contract is not up until June 30th but we will be finished teaching June 8th. The school had wanted us to stay until June 30th…which made NO sense. So ...

Summer Palace

A travel blog entry by chaletaria

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... mostly ruined but being restored) of Houda/ Sumeru Temple (1780's but totally burnt down). Looking through we could see the (typical) lions and the steps leading to the high platform (symbolising Mt. Meru (SuMeru), the Buddhist/Hindu world mountain) with the continents (buildings) around- each one slightly different.


It was quite crowded and very noisy (people + cicadas) but as we moved into the woods on Longevity Hill it got much quieter really quickly.
We ...

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