Hostels Beijing

This is my first trip backpacking through parts of China. I will be traveling through Beijing, Shanghai, Suzhou, Huangshan, Nanning, Yangshuo, and several other places. I am traveling mostly by train and staying in hostels. I am really looking forward to ...

... stumbled onto Da Zha Lan Xi Jie street. It is a popular tourist area with hole in the wall eateries, shops, backpacker hostels and Chinese business hotels. And it is all a few hundred meters from our place we thought was in BFE.    ...

Beijing I've just departed from The Peoples Republic of Chinas Capital, Beijing, on route to Guangzhou in the south of the country. I would have to say this trip just gets better and better, and to think I wasn't going to go up to Beijing, Thanks so ...

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... coincidences, Ben your huge Chinese instrument was lying next to my bag in storage behind the counter. Out of all the hostels in Beijing! That afternoon we went to the silk market which is full of really good fake Ralph Lauren, Gucci Armani and North ...

... then we head into the city on the Metro, have some lunch then Metro-it out to the Temple of Heaven, another Beijing landmark. This beautiful, restored and rebuilt pagoda is surrounded by a landscaped park which is the haunt of many Beijingers. They come ...

... a nice little shop selling tea though, so I was happy.     The following few days were spent wondering around Beijing and seeing such amazing attractions as the Summer Palace, Temple of Heaven and the huge Silk Market (crazy sellers - never ...

... we plan to explore them in the next few days. The smell along the walk was pretty full on too – that ‘beijing’ small interspersed with strong open sewerage…. Not so pleasant.  Wangfujing street is one of the widest streets ...

... & Vietnam so far. For the first time on this trip I travelled with people from England! On the train from Ulan Bator to Beijing I shared a sleeper cabin with 3 people from England. Pete, Pete & Emily were from the London area and weren’t the ...

... was about 3 hours 50 minutes too long. To the Acrobatics show! (This was a trip organised by the hostel. Many hostels offer deals and excursions, arrange train tickets, flights and bus journeys for your next destination for a little extra charge which ...

... up to me and pointed the gun at my head before firing! Very strange. The hostel is really nice. My first experience of hostels and I have not been dissapointed. Staff are friendly, rooms are clean and big bottles of strong beer are 30p a go :-) Day 1 ...

... we are staying in a YHA hostel, hostels do not really exist in China, so we are actually staying in quite a nice hotel! Beijing is a lovely city - vast but very clean and a weird mix of modern China with some amazing ancient architecture. On our first ...

... were days of extreme cold and mist, then stripping down to a t-shirt in the heat. Everything was 2-3 times more expensive. Beijing was a completely different cityscape and layout then Chengdu or the cities of the south. It's broad and expansive, with ...

... to deal with a foreigner or try and figure out where our hostel was. We asked an airhostess and a tour agent to translate our hostels name and address into Chinese but they each wrote something different so we were none the wiser. When we finally found a ...

China has a wide variety of world class hostels, which means hostels with excellent rooms and service. Frequently, hostels in China are small and cozy, which makes the experience of staying in a hostel worthwhile even if you are not on a budget. Nicely ...

... Annoyingly he checked into the same hostel across the road from the station. Considered changing hostels, but that was too much hassle. Besides, the hostel (Beijing City Center International Youth Hostel) had more ammenities than most hostels. Very clean ...

... cities I've been to. It also surprisingly doesn't feel overly crowded or polluted. So far I'm a huge fan. I've stayed in 2 hostels, both a small bit northeast (beidong?) of the forbidden city, & both great. Hostels in China have been wonderful: often in ...

... spiel the hostel quoted on its website: “Living in the guest house can help you get a better understanding of Beijing’s local life. You could never get the same feeling and travelling experience without staying in the hutongs. Wandering ...