Beijing Travel Blogs - Page 14

The Great Wall of China In the morning we went to the Great Wall of China, at Mutianyu. The mountains alone were worth seeing, heavily forested and with sharp ridges. The Wall itself seems rather excessive in places – what crazy Mongolian would try to ride ten thousand horsemen over th…

We arrived at the ferry terminal in Tanggu, near Tianjin where we got a bus to Beijing.  Less than thirty minutes into our journey there was a loud bang where one of the rear tyres had burst. Eventually, seven hours later we arrived at the Red Lantern hostel in Beijing. We spent our first ful…

- Men roling up their shirts is quite common, and maybe do a litle drumming on their tummy. - Food is usually served on many small plates. Everyone shares everything, and never mind all the different chopsticks in the same food - dumplings are great - wach out for alle spytte…

The menu was a huge book with pictures, you can order half portion (98rmb) if there are only 2 of you, and each duck is carved tableside by the chef wearing a mask and presented in neat slices upon leaves of Romaine. The duck is served with an array of condiments. The classic accompaniments are sca…

Summary of my travels since starting to travel for work in 2004. Three continents and three jobs later, this blog is an ongoing work in process. All locations are entered through present, will be adding descriptions and pictures as I have the opportunity. Please let me know if you see an entry without info you would like me to upload pictures for and I can take care of adding that location's items sooner.

Well the title is slightly misleading as we do have one more stop in Hong Kong before our return to NZ but when a Chinese woman we were talking with called New Zealand the Green Diamond I just had to use it in a title! Yes our time in China has been very interesting, it is certainly not the easies…

Went with my class to Beijing in 2005

Blew all my money and trooped down to Beijing Olympics 2008 to find out what the hoo-ha was about. :)

07-03-2007 to 08-09-2007

Great experiences, Great places, Great people

El viaje

10 days in Beijing & Xian and big friggin' wall to run on...twice for 26.2 miles

I was very frustrated at first living in Beijing, most likely do to a lack of adequate language skills. By the end of my 4 months, I hated the thought of going back to the States and I returned to experience what some call, "reverse culture shock." These are some of the good times in the northern capital.

Ben and I became traveling buddy at this point. After spending 2 weeks day-in-day-out with my friends, I was kinda "sick" of them... don't get me wrong, we didn't fall out or anything like that, just it is a nice change of scenario checking out new city with someone else. On our way to Great Wall o…

The few decent pictures I have from a month in China, Man I wish I had a digital camera back then...