Beijing Travel Blogs - Page 3

    Yes, I got quarantined for 12 hours but for some of my travel companions the “imprisonment” lasted 7 days which was almost half of our precious vacation time. I guess we learned that it is probably better not to go to China during a Flu Pandemic.   Flu issues aside the tr…

  Fui com a Meltem comprar o meu novo dicionário electrónico. Ela tinha-me mostrado o dela 2 dias antes e eu decidira instantaneamente que seria um muito bom investimento. O dicionário tinha as opções em Inglês ou Chinês, e funcionava como dicionário dessas línguas e ainda de japo…

i think after we headed back to the hostel we went back to quianman place and saw that boulevard that looks fake. and that temple in the middle.. not very eventful.. and i already wrote this blog on grzechus page so please look at his for this part of the blog as i am too lazy to write it again.. t…

Day 6Today we got ready to go to the Summer Palace. Wake-up call was early as usual. When we entered the Summer Palace (it was about half an hour driving) it was very impressive to see. First thing we saw was a square with a lot of trees. Through the whole summer palace everything was green. A…

 Always need to be early, so you get chance to see nice view, otherwise, you would be drawn in an ocean of people. Subway system is not good in Beijing, need to walk a long long way underground. If you have old people with you can't walk too convenient, better take other way. And so…

Beijing is being heavily reconstructed because of the 2008 olympics and the Chinese have passed a law that all construction must be completed by 2007, so all the dust and dirt from the overhaul can be cleaned in time... SO we're talking construction going on everywhere at the same time. It's r…

Be warned. This entry is not so much a "blog" as it is a diatribe. A rant. I am cranky. I am growing quite tired of Beijing. And it is so crowded here! Over 36 billion people live in Beijing! Okay... it's only 20 million. But that's still a hell of a lot of people! To try to cross a street is…

Me and my housemate joined a package tour to Beijing + Xi'an last Feb 18 to 21 to celebrate 2007 Lunar New Year in China. We arranged everything in Singapore for this trip. We knew that independent travel would be difficult for us since we can't speak and read chinese, and we don't have time to was…

I always wanted to visit Beijing before the Oylmpic 2008, finally i make it. I went there with my siblings and friend, we spent 8 days in Beijing, ChengDe and TianJin. Along the journey we meet a lots of nice peoples and sharing our travel experience. Here's some photos we took in China.

The day's agenda included: Lama Temple (Yonghe Gong)Donghuamen Night Market (Donghuamen Yeshi)

So If you have ever traveled abroad especially it seems in China that weather never cooperates. So I was lying home ended up huge storm rolled in at Dalian where I live then 3 hours later when that cleared Beijing got the same storm. So we had gotten on the plane and all that then after an 8 ho…

Climbing the Great Wall was an amazing experience.

Heute morgen bin ich als erstes in die Apotheke, um dieses Malariamittel zu besorgen, das es angeblich nur in China gibt. Als ich die Apotheke betreten habe, hat mir eine Verkäuferin gleich mit einem Zettel zugewunken, auf dem die wohl wichtigsten westlichen Medikamente sowie diverse Wehwehchen in…

For our maiden voyage together, Big Boy and I felt we needed to lose the cherry in a big way, the Orient. Our journeys took us to the far off shores of Beijing, China. He made many guest appearances at such famed locations as the Summer Palaces, the Forbidden City and of course, the  Great Wal…

Declared as a Unesco World Heritage site in 1987, the name ‘forbidden city’ is a translation of one of the Chinese terms for it- 紫禁城- Zījĭnchéng, so called because ordinary folk would be punished by death if they found their way in uninvited. The Forbidden City is also referred to as �…