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Great Wall Of China
Enough of weird fruits and nasty eggs, here's something different... and awesome for a change. I spent three days in Beijing last July, and here are highlights of the visit to one of the Seven Wonders...
Underground
During our recent three-day tour of Beijing, China, we walked a great deal. Many of the roads were very wide, with motorists hell-bent on running over anything and anyone in their way. Of course we di...
Shopping And Eating In Beijing
A leisurely evening stroll in Tiananmen Square became a shopping spree for many in our group.It was our last day in Beijing. We went out before dinner to see the sights, and the touts swooped upon the...
Hutong Tour Part 2
We continue from part one with the hutong tour in the second ring of the city. After visiting that very nice couple who lives in a beautiful home with their brand-new flat-screen TV and other 21st cen...
Hutong Tour Part 1
Vivien arranged for a hutong tour with the tour guide on the return trip from the Great Wall. As for the others in our group, PP told them that the bus would drop them off at Wangfujing shopping stree...
Our Hotels In Beijing, Baotou, Hohhot
I should start a series on accomodation, because some folk who talked to me during Sunday lunch have reeeeally, really strange ideas about where we slept when we go on m-trips. Who gave you those idea...
Getting Around: Rickshaw Ride
Our first encounter with a rickshaw was on our first day in Beijing, right in the middle of the city. We had walked around the Egg... I mean the National Grand Theatre and Tiananmen Square the entire ...
The Great Wall Of China
A couple of weeks before we left for Beijing, several million people who probably had nothing to do voted in the first global election for the new seven wonders of the world. The results were announce...
Eating And Shopping In Beijing
This blog has been loading too slowly lately. Must be the many photos I have been posting so far! I've done a little revamp to reduce the number of articles on the first page, and here's a quick summa...
The Temple Of Heaven
Someone asked me did we see the Tian Tan i.e. the Temple of Heaven. Yes, sure we did, on our second day in Beijing, and here are over 30 pics. I didn't enjoy that tour very much, though.First, it was ...
Getting Around: Taxis In Beijing
Vivien and I were very lost. We had walked for about twenty minutes from our hotel to the Forbidden City, but there was no Forbidden City to be seen, and we stood at the street corner, wondering where...
Beijing Intro, First Day And Night
When Vivien and I arrived in the early morning of 17th July (around 7am), we settled down at the airport's KFC for a very long, leisurely breakfast and waited for our tour manager, VG, to show up. It ...
Midpoint
25 July Wednesday 1245pm - I am writing this in very cramped conditions in the coach as we travel on the highway to the city of everlasting spring. We had a simple lunch of buns and biscuits on the bu...
