Beijing Travel Blogs - Page 8

Beijing Olympics Volunteer, Tennis Venue, Ticket Validation & Verification and hopping around in BEIJING CITY!!!

The trip started in Shanghai with some great bargains. Then we took the plane to Tibet to dive into another world. While our cap driver left us at Ganden monastery we were lucky enough to be able to join a pilgrim group back to Lhasa. Taking the new train from Lhasa to Beijing for 48 hours the last part of the trip began. Living in a real hutong I could get around the city and just with a piece of paper (and a bit of luck) to the great wall.

This trip was meant to de-stress me and at the same time catch up with my friends who are in Beijing but it was more than what I expected..I have so many pleasant things to account for: (1)great weather - no rain and wasn't too HOT as well (2)ease of transport - the subway is very easy and taking a cab for short distances is worth the comfort (3)new friends I made (4)felt safe late at night or early morning (5)language barrier wasn't as troublesome as expected

Starting in Beijing and going to the south until...Who knows!!

I travelled to Beijing last year, month of September- just a week after the 2008 Olympics was over.  Much to my amazement, I  thought Dubai has the most impressive airport but when i saw Beijing airport, I immediately changed my mind.  They have the coolest ceiling ive ever seen =)&n…

After a quick breakfast at the Hotel Bayangol, we got our transfer to the station get the final leg of our Trans Siberian/Mongolian adventure. Once on the train, first impressions were an improvement on the last train, so hopes were higher for a more comfortable journey....Sadly this was short-liv…

Beijing is an amazing city. I'm told it's a bit cleaner and prettier for the Oympics, but this city is huge, spotless, full of flowers and trees, and completely modern (except for the narrow hutong neighborhoods). Yes, the smog is awful. Worse than Pomona, CA in the late 80's.  My photos of al…

I think the city must have changed very dramatically for the Olympic games as getting around Bejing for a foreign is very easy. I spent there about 9 days and I saw a lot - beginning with The Forbidden City, The Temple of Heaven, through Tian An Men square, various parks, O…

Finding Victoria. Many countries across the globe have honoured Her Majesty Queen Victoria and the Commonwealth. On my travels I will keep my eye out for various namesakes.

Well I'm back in China for the Olympic games and i must say I'm really really excited to actually see them in person for the first time, i have tickets for the Tae Kwon Do and Boxing events so it should be really fun to see..........I'll keep you posted while I'm here and get pictures up as I get t…

I went to Beijing about one month from June to july 2007 to do 3 weeks chinese course in BUU. I stayed in BUU's international student dorm. I visited Great Wall, Tiananmen gate, Summer palace, Temple of Heaven and Forbidden city. Of course i wathed that chinese acrobatic show, they are so awesome;p. Chinese food is my favorite one:D

So, after our workout on the wall we got dropped off at our hostel. We had managed to find a hostel that wasnt as expensive as all the others, we bargained them down to half price after Rachel told them we would have to sleep at the station otherwise (a real possibility at that point). We …

my homeland trip via Beijing.

We are back in Beijing again from Harbin, catching our flight back Shanghai tonight.We reached Beijing train station by 7:30am. Yes it was early. Not wanting to drag our heavy bags for our day trip in Beijing, we did what we had done on the first day we arrived - deposit our bags in the railway sta…

This weekend, about 15 people from our group traveled to Inner Mongolia!  It is a province about 12 hours North East of Beijing.  We had the whole thing set up though a travel agent close to our classroom (the Asian kids had to help us with this one).  Some things were definitely los…