Beijing Travel Blogs - Page 4

It's my second and last day in Beijing. As I said, too short, but will be here again in Augst and hopefully will explore a litte bit more than this time.Well, the jet lag had finally kicked in I was quite tired in the morning. After working half of the day we went out for lunch to a restaurant, fam…

We took a 3 hour ride to a less touristy area of the Great Wall called Simatai.  This was a recommendation from a friend that worked out well.  Finally we arrived only to discover that we were far, far, far away from the wall.  Fortunatly there was a 20 minute lift (think ski lift) t…

Returning from the Great Wall we all decided to celebrate our last night in Beijing with a local specialty, Peking Duck. Robert explained that Beijing has always been called Beijing but because of the different accent of the southern Chinese, several other countries believed that the city was calle…

Well after a 12+ hour flight from lax I finally landed in Beijing.  The flight itself was LONG and BORING, but despite this I still have nothing but good things to say about Air China. They seemed to be very well organized and friendly.  This was also my first flight that stayed dark …

I went to Beijing by myself at the end of 2005. It was a fantastic city with lots of characters and history.

My wonderful trip with friends in beijing. Though we don't really understand the language,, but with a very little Chinese we still have fun!! I love my buddy here..

Hat az uuugy volt, hogy delelott otcsillagos turista voltam; delben kicsekkoltam egyre novekvo sulyu es szamu csomagommal (negy nap alatt megharomszorozodott taskaim szama), majd konnyed mozgassal kimasztam a hostel ele taxit fogni. kb 15 meterre jutottam, amikor egy taxi nem fert el tolem az utcan…

Twenty hours in Beijing...what to do? When we landed the crew wanted to get some sleep...understandable because we had just flown all night but unforgiveable because we may never get back to Beijing again!!! I knew if they went for "a nap" all was over so I pushed them to just do a quick change and…

Without getting much sleep, as people were watching DVDs in our hostel room all night. I crashed as soon as I got on the coach for the tour. My sleep was only interrupted by the pre-arranged stops on the way to the wall. The first such stop was the Jade Museum. I don't know why there is a stop arra…

I went to China alone. My first destination was Shanghai I stayed there for 3 days and then I went to Beijing for 3 days as well.

Alright so, about THE train ride . . . It was NEVER-ENDING!!!  Good thing we had seats, though!! At the start of the journey, everything seemed as if everything was going to be orderly, but things soon changed . . . and I mean soon!!  Hmmm? Why, you might be wondering?  Well, for …

I spent the month of August 2008 in Beijing for an internship during the Olympics. There was not much work for my friends and me to do, so we explored the city a lot. And went to quite a few events. Definitely a once in a lifetime experience.

The third day of our stay we were gong to visit “The Great Wall” something that I had looked forward to since I was a little boy watching old black and white movies about the emperor of China. We had bought the tickets the day before and were going to be picked up from the hotel just before mid…

         Although our original plans for the day involved a return trip to the flea market, we had to quickly alter our plans when the cab driver informed us that it was not opened on Mondays. Therefore, the taxi driver took us to Dazhalan, a market crammed w…

Well folks, this is the end of the road...I'm so sad that this summer passed by so quickly! But I am definitely ready to get back to the US...and eat some friggin Mexican food! But seriously, the things we take for granted in the US such as hot showers whenever you want, clean air, spit-free sidewa…