Haibei Lvyuan Resort
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First Impressions
... home.
Afterwards, they gave me dinner -- homemade dumplings called tiaozhe and several forms of tofu. It was good, and "mama" kept urging me to eat until my stomach felt it was about to explode. Nevertheless, my stomach (which had been growling since the flight ended) was satisfied, and they let me turn in for the night and settle in. Almost as soon as my head hit the pillow I had passed out. I knew I needed some rest for what was coming next...
The first day.
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Tiananmen Sq and the Forbidden City
... a total of 500 years. These days, it's locally referred to as the Palace Museum, but the Forbidden City sounds much better Being a weekday we didn't think it would be too crowded in and about the atractions inside. But unforunately I forgot that we were in Beijing, the masters of crowds. As we walked on through the City (which is nearly 1km long), we would come to different halls, or large buildings, which held some importance with how the emperors of the time conducted ...
Characters, Calligraphy, and shopping oh my!
... dinner in no time. After such a long day - WINE was in order. I sucked it up and shared a bottle of cabarnet (I really don't drink reds at all) with some other folks to accompany dinner - just enough to get me loose! It was actually pretty good and it was "Great Wall" wine... pretty sure there are no vineyards around there, but hey, it says "Great wall" so it must be legit.
My feet are still swelling incredibly and I want nothing more than just ...
What a day!
... of the emperors, and there are also human sacrifice holes for 16 of the emperor's concubines. Because he's allowed up to 3000 concubines, and he chooses 16 of them that he doesn't feel like he has a use for as human sacrifices. This practice stopped after the 7th MIng emperor.
There were SO many artifacts to see.. and to think that your'e part of something that's thousands and thousands of years old.. it makes Europe look young in comparison. Also ...
Welcome to Beijing! (Again)
... only had one week left in our stay. This inevitable truth really set in during our longest train ride from Hangzhou to Beijing. It was thirteen hours long, and lasted through the night and into the following morning. That gave me plenty of time to look back on what we had experienced and seen thus far, but to also face the fact that I would be back in America in less than a week's time.
Although such a train ride seems like it would be best spent in sleeper cars, seeing ...
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