Beijing Travel Blogs - Page 6

If you had been to the Great Wall of China, most likely you went to the closest one from Beijing, the Badaling section of the Great Wall. I had been there twice, once in 1997 and another time in 2002, I am sure there are a lot more tourists now. So this time I wanted to go to a different part o…

After visiting the Beijing Zoo in the morning, we got in a taxi and headed to the Summer Palace. This place is very spread out, and took the rest of the afternoon and early evening to explore. I'm just going to include some pictures for now, but if you go to Beijing be sure to make time to visit th…

Not much to tell about these days really, we came back from the Great wall pretty knackered so slept if off, then on the 2nd we had a laundry and supplies day. I managed to get some toothpaste to help with some gum problems i had been having. Apart from that we just hung out at the hostel listening…

Spent June and July of 2008 working in Beijing, China. We got lucky and ended up not having to do much work so it turned into somewhat of a paid vacation. Because of that I got a chance to really live it up and experience as much of Beijing as I could in two months. It was also a special time becau…

The company I work for decided, as many other companies do, to celebrate the start of the spring by going to the area of the Great Wall and planting some new trees. So they organized a bus and breakfast and 50 employees signed up and all of us met on saturday morning and start this travel. Th…

~ May 5th-6th ~ Journey Day One ~ Getting up at 4am was by no means an easy task and was made no lighter by the fact I had become very sick too. With some helpful encouragement and a great leap of faith I rushed down to Toronto to catch my flight to Beijing China. Having never travelled internatio…

Great trip...

After more than a month's rest in Beijing, it eventually came time to leave. I had gotten used to wearing a coat and gloves indoors, but it will be nice to visit someplace warmer. I am headed to the south of China for some long-anticipated biking. I've dragged Rusty Jr. halfway around the world and…

I absolutely love Beijing ! There is so much to see and do! Highlights of the trip are definitely the Great Wall, Seeing the flag raising ceremony in Tian'an men square at sunrise, and the temple of heaven, close seconds are the forbidden city, and summer palace. Oh and seeing the Olympic Stadium

Days passed and I eventually thawed out. I even acclimated enough to strip down to four layers instead of six. Christmas came and went, my kiwi friends moved on and I opted to try Beijing on from a couchsurfing point-of-view. Most of the english-speaking Chinese choose an english sounding name to g…

What better way to spend my last remaining days of my seven-month trip than walking around like an idiot for hours on end? Brilliant. I negotiated the overnight train to Beijing OK. I thought I would save money by avoiding a taxi across to the other side of Beijing and take the subway to my pre-bo…

Hello Hello!   Today we went to the Forbidden City!   It was very impressive to see! But it was a pity that our tourgide went really quick through everything..so it was more like a "race" through the Forbidden City! And I have seriously never laught so hard...EVERY chinees…

To continue my window shopping, I wandered along Dashilar Lu which is yet another old hutong, this one running west from the Front Gate of the Forbidden City near Tiananmen Square. It's a huge jumble of silk shops, department stores, theatres, herbal medicine shops, etc. At lunch time, staff from a…

Doesn't matter if you're a package tour oldster or an off the beaten track hipster, there's only one sight that is compulsory if you're in the region of Beijing: The Great Wall of China. As it happens, due to out of date info on bus services to Simatai, I became a package tour proto-grandad. No…

Very nice trip in China.. mainly for visting friends and world heritages.. 5 world heritages, some spectacular destinations and gourmet cuisine..