Songxiu Garden
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Beijing II
... probably my favourite restaurant in Beijing, we have eaten twice at a Miao restaurant, once on Paul's birthday and once yesterday on our last night. Miaos are a separate ethnic group in China, and this restaurant specialises in Guizhou food, which is a poor area in the south of China. We ate a variety of dishes, all strongly flavoured. There was a particularly nice "three flavours vegetable" dish of aubergine, green pepper and soya beans, ...
Sightseeing the Chinese Way
... a different name. She also lives in a very small house and all she has left is two large trunks passed down by her family. The food she cooked was amazing and I definitely ate way too much- it was just sooo good! We then went to an area by a lake in the centre of the city. It was really peaceful with bars facing onto the water with live music in each place. They even had umbrellas to put over the outside seats when there was a light sprinkling of ...
Cycle to Mutianyu Great wall
... fired to the enemy on both sides. This feature is rarely seen on other parts of the Great Wall with battlements on both sides and crenels along the battlements. Besides , Qijiguang further developed the Great Wall by covering most of the constructions with bricks and stones and building spanning watchtowers. So credit should be given to this great general.
Compared to other sections of Great ...
Pro-nun-cia-ción!
Después de las clases de la mañana me quedé en la U para clase de pronunciación. Es una clase donde estudiantes de todos los niveles pueden revisar su pronunciación y corregir errores. Llegué un poquito tarde pero logré entrar todavía y sentarme hasta adelante. En la clase había gente de todo el mundo pero me pareció gracioso como, sin pensarlo, los que hablamos idiomas similares estábamos sentados juntos. La primera fila era sólo de hispanohablantes. La segunda y cuarta de tailandeses ...
Great Wall and Kung Fu
... a small monk beating time as we went in and about 100 people trying to take his photo- he managed to ignore them all!
The show as excellent- it was based around a monk's journey from first arriving in the Shaolin abbey as a young boy, training (Kung Fu) and learning (Zen Buddhism) to finally becoming the next abbot. He makes two friends and they stay with him throughout. The acrobatics and martial arts were amazing- even the 3 little boys were doing flips and landing ...
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