Beijing Travel Blogs

We are sadly leaving the wonderful, friendly, green area of Yangshou to return to busy, noisy, crowded Beijing.   We were in Yangshou so long the vendors recognised us and stopped to talk.   Several restaurants knew us and spoiled us when we came in.....  back to …

It's our last day in China. I spent the morning acting as travel agent, researching future accommodation options, checking flights, and day-dreaming about Bali. At some point in the mid morning I mentioned I’d like to go to Bally’s for a last workout, and Steve responded by rushing to get his w…

Finishing this blog almost half a year after returning, I am still on a high. This was such a wonderful experience, such an adventure. Which is strange really when you consider this was the most 'planned-in-advance' trip I'd ever done. It had seemed so unnatural to pre-book the largest chunk of the…

I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed at the amount of Temples of different shapes and sizes ... part of me now wants to go to our next destination, but another part of me just wants to take in all the history in throughout the many fortresses built in Beijing which hold alot of history about the past…

People I met here who contributed to, and improved my trip: Julia (Russia)   There was only one thing on my mind when we arrived back into Beijing... fish and chips. An English couple in Busan had recommended an establishment called Fish Nation and ever since I'd arrived back into China, it …

WE ARRIVED EARLY ON TIAN'ANMEN SQUARE TO VISIT THE FORBIDDEN CITY NOW OFFICIALLY RENAMED THE PALACE MUSEUM,GUGONG IN CHINESE.IT THE WORLD'S LARGEST PALACE COVERING MORE THAN 70 HECTARES (960 METERS LONG,750 M WIDE) AND HOME TO MORE THAN 9000 ROOMS.BUILT IN THE EARLY 1400s.SURROUNDED BY WIDE AND DEE…

The late night out and jet-lag conspired against me to make this a lazy day. I woke up late, grabbed some breakfast, then spent a few hours updating my blog and watching sumo wrestling on the hotel T.V. It was wild.I caught an 8 PM flight out of Beijing and arrived back in Los Angeles on 5 PM of th…

 Our driver took us next to the Beijing Zoo, where he dropped us off out front so we could buy tickets, while he went in and parked in the lot  (presumeably to have another nap)   We bought our entry passes, and went to our first stop..the Panda House!  You could just …

Well, it's a long day! The road to the Ching east tombs was not straightforward to say the least. There were some really poor road conditions due to trucks carrying construction material, rocks, sand, etc. so that the air was so think with dust, it was pretty amazing. The trees at the side of the r…

Beijing, China.... there are different kinds of food to try here, from your regular kungpao chicken to the most unimaginable food that you could think of....There is one street over at Beijing that offers all this kind of foods...The smell of the food was not really the best, but the experience was…

Houhai is the name of the lake and bar/tea street area of Beijing.  I'd been there once at night, but decided that I wanted to go again during the day.  This time I went with Leo and Vivi.  The highlights- purchase of more ginseng oolong tea, Cocoa Ballet, the lake, and chicken wings…

During the Swine flu pandemic of June 2009, our friend and TravBuddy member Giovanni, (giotravel) visited China and one of the places he was able to visit was the Temple of Heaven, in Beijing.  He even got a picture standing in one section of the Temple.  There weren’t very many people …

I had saved the best for my Last day here in China, the Forbidden Palace. Headed towards the Square with Cyril, (the French 40'sh guy I met at the hostel last night who just got here and didnt seem to know where to start) to meet up with Helen at 9 am. Have totally allocated one whole&nbs…

Okay time for the big one.  And time to get away from this city!  It’s still the weekend and Stevie needs to escape the Beijing masses.  Maybe he’ll be safer behind, or from atop the defences of a wall.  Wanli Changcheng.  ‘The Long Wall of 10,000’.  The Great …

Today myself and Kenton, my American roommate from San Fancisco trekked back up to the restored part of the Great Wall of China to take a few photos in the sun before heading back to pack and shower. We checked out of our guest house and boarded the bus back to Beijing. By the time we reached Bei…