Beijing Travel Blogs - Page 2

This is the last half day in China capital. We woke up and went to the Ritan Park, where there is the Ritan altar, something like altar of the sun... or similar... but the altar itself was rather empty and not really interesting. More fun was the park around the altar, because there were so many pe…

Well, it happened. Someone asked me for directions for the first time tonight. And (surprise!) I actually could help the guy out. Ah. Sanlitun has now become home. I missed my apartment when I was in Manilla last week. Another sign that this has become home to me. As I'm getting used to life here, …

At least this flight wasn't delayed! Flying another almost 6000 miles over the Pacific and I arrived back in San Francisco airport about 12 hours later. Time to unpack and look through my photos and update my blog. This trip took me almost 2000 km or 1200 miles by train and bus, and 2 domestic fli…

My first trip to China to study mandarin for a year (the PLAN) and ended up only 6 months. However, China was a great strong country, a lot of friendly and aggressive people there although it sees hard for me to hang out with the locals. They even hardly speak English, I guess it's a good thing for me to practice the language. Anyway, it was one of a hell trip I have in my life, I could make friends with the expat at least. Helping a friend browsing the city with only 0,5% mandarin I cud speak.

Our  holiday in China has been and gone .... and it was definately an experience! We flew from Belfast to Heathrow to Frankfurt to be delayed meaning we missed our connection to Beijing - after a harrowing hour we were moved to a China Airways flight to Beijing - so we arrived only 2 hours af…

Info variée et mélangée. Follow your nose: Je peux vous dire,  ca ne sent pas le quartier chinois nul part ici. Ya juste le notre qui a cette odeur de pas-frais. L'odeur habituelle est un mix d'épices, de kerosen, un petit je-ne-sais-quoi et une pincée de pollution. Rien a voir avec mont…

So there's a blog that I follow called "I am blogging from the future."  It's written by a one Miss Hana, whom is another friend I met through my friend Lisa.  Well, technically we haven't met yet as I haven't made it to her corner of the world, but soon.  Insignificant details, real…

Managed to get tickets to the athletics heats yesterday. (15 Aug) went with a couple of friends and colleagues :)

  TIAN’ANMEN SQUARE   The very center of the People’s Republic of China and the world’s largest public square (the size of 90 football fields); Tian'anmen still reverberates with the ghosts of recent history.   THE FORBIDDEN CITY (Imperial Palace)   We visited …

I know that many have walked the Great Wall of China and the experience has stimulated various insightful chronicles of the trek. As well, I know that the actions of the hawkers have often been described as a negative influence. I don't know if my hike was any different from most except that f…

So lindsey and I went on a mini-excursion during the清明節long weekend, when everyone else went to xi'an. we wanted to go to the Beijing Art Museum, but we got off two wrong stops, yes, twice. Twice the ticket people let us back in. It was funny. And of course, when lindsey was talking, everyone…

It was 830PM, and we were set for boarding. We said goodbye to Vivian, for the emantime, before we proceeded to Compartment 3. This is the first time I will be experiencing a long train ride so my excitement was rising. The first thing I did when I reached my cabin was leave my bags inside, went ou…

Haha, Well I guess my title doesn't sound too exciting.. 27.5 total hours from Houston to Bangkok.  I left Houston on a little less than 4 hours of sleep, early Monday morning, around 6am.  I flew to Newark, NJ where I was the only person in the state probably wearing shorts and …

I had no idea how to book train so i just let the people in hostel to do it! It was a bit expensive than I was expected. Paid around 900yuan for round trip but it was 4beds room so it was okay. I was so nervous about this train trip. I heard many stories of how bad and dangerous but those were only…

Finally, we were in the last day of our trip in Beijing. This time, we did not use any guided tours. Besides, it did not make any use for us. We felt so happy because we could arrange our trip alone and as we liked. After having the breakfast, we went out from the hotel by walking. Our hotel was ve…