The Regent Beijing

... . The room was large and great view to the bustling streets below. The next morning, decided to see some sights around Beijing. Armed with a mandarin phrasebook, I caught a cab to what was meant to be Summer Palace, ended up being at Jingshan Park. ...

... to meet up in a couple of days to take us to some authentic Peking duck.  When we finally arrived at the Regent Beijing hotel after the 12hr flight and instantly, we instantly walked into the lap of luxury.  We were staying at this fabulous ...

... stad grofweg zo'n 16 miljoen mensen. Deze moeten natuurlijk ook vervoerd worden. Iedereen kent het liedje nine million bycicles in Beijing. Tegenwoordig gaat dat eerder op voor het aantal auto's. Dat heeft dan wel nog lang niet de negen miljoen bereikt. ...

... we got by on 3-6 layers of clothes; suffice to say we had loads of laundry to do after. First impressions of Beijing: -very modern, -loads of interesting modern architecture, -very wide streets -saturation of very high end name brand stores (not ...

We got an express overnight train (which still arrived late) to Beijing then walked to Tianamen Square, which was bigger than I expected, a multi lane highway runs along each side within the square.  We tried to get a virtual cache at the monument ( ...