 | The Great Wall and the Summer Palace
2005-02-14, Beijing, China. By: megancknox | | On our first full day in Beijing we excitedly ate our traditional Chinese breakfast, which consisted of some of the same unidentifiable pickled root vegetable dishes as the night before as well as som... |
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| China at last
2005-02-13, Beijing, China. By: megancknox | | What I saw of Shanghai was out of windows in the bus and the hotel, but it looked amazing. We were there for Chinese New Year, and what our bus driver called “firecracks” went off literally the entire... |
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 | summer palace of the emperor
2000-10-07, beijing, China. By: lomotravel | | We set out pretty early, found the railway station, booked our tickets to Taishan the next evening, mike was there also, then went to the subway, mike split from us, up onto Tianamen Square once again... |
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| the great wall
2000-10-08, beijing, China. By: lomotravel | | The day finally came for the highly anticipated visit to The Great Wall !!! We awoke no earlier than normal, with vague directions of a place we could definately catch a bus out to the wall. We had ta... |
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| the forbidden city
2000-10-07, beijing, China. By: lomotravel | | Up early and anxious to see two things: the forbidden city & tianamen square. We found out, via two english tourists, that beijing has a well functioning subway system which runs through all the place... |
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 | Day # 15
2004-06-05, Beijing, China. By: tamtam31 | | Today was a free day. After sleeping in, a group of us went to the Summer Palace by taxi for the morning. We needed a bank or ATM and spent a great deal of time trying to gesture the idea of these t... |
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 | Friday day #14
2004-06-04, Beijing, China. By: tamtam31 | | We returned to CCAP again today, and since I had done all my research the day before, I messed around on the computers for a good three or four hours. We went back to Notting Hill for lunch again, th... |
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 | Day #13
2004-06-03, Beijing, China. By: tamtam31 | | Today was mostly a research day. We had the option of going to a conference or spending most of the day at CCAP, a place we¡¯d gone many times for lectures. Most of us chose CCAP, if not for the res... |
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 | Day #12 (wednesday)
2004-06-02, Beijing, China. By: tamtam31 | | The train ride was uneventful. We arrived back in Beijing at five in the morning, got our stuff, and were promptly attacked as soon as we stepped outside the station by taxi drivers. There are two k... |
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 | Another day, another drip shower
2004-06-06, Beijing, China. By: teamchina | | They must deprive the first floor showers of water pressure because we don't have to suffer 4 flights of stairs. The hotel doesn't have an elevator, so maybe this evens things out. We also only get ... |
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| update 1
2004-06-04, Beijing, China. By: teamchina | | Ni hao from the PRC!! ...here's an update from Zhongguo (china in Chinese)
After 19 hours in planes, plus a few hours each in the San Francisco and Tokyo airports, we arrived to Beijing!! Though un... |
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 | Day #9
2004-05-30, Beijing, China. By: tamtam31 | | I'm not sure why this is such a pet peeve to me but for some reason it pisses me off beyond belief. Everyday when the maids come in while we're gone to change the towels and sheets, they'll replace o... |
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 | Day #5...to market, to market
2004-05-26, Beijing, China. By: tamtam31 | | Our meeting today was at the US embassy in a nicer area of Beijing. We had to go through tons of security to get in, and they even confiscated all our cameras. The man we met with was from the State... |
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| Our free day!
2004-06-02, Beijing, China. By: teamchina | | Today we got the day off. Our "tour guide," Zaida, fit 6 of us in his KIA and drove us to Beijing. We first visited Tienamean Square, and saw Mao's HUGE mausoleum. In the square, some asian boy coerc... |
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| One week
2004-05-30, Beijing, China. By: teamchina | | This morning Tammy, Ashley, and I got starbucks (no vinegar noodles or onion "pancakes" for breakfast). We are now at the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, just finishing up a full day of lectur... |
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 | Day #4...Beijing Opera
2004-05-25, Beijing, China. By: tamtam31 | | Today we had to cram in two meetings in the morning because we had plans in the afternoon to sightsee. So, for four hours in two back-to-back lectures we learned about desertification and conservatio... |
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 | Day #3...Monday. lectures start
2004-05-24, Beijing, China. By: tamtam31 | | We had our first lectures today, both of which were very long and somewhat boring. We had two, one in the morning and another in the afternoon, which meant we wouldn't have time to shop or walk aroun... |
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 | Olympic-Sized City
2004-02-03, Beijing, China. By: ffej | | The more I travel, the more I run into a quirky drawback of it all - it becomes harder and harder for something to impress me. It seems that there's always something that's been bigger, older, in bet... |
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 | A Tourist's Perspective #4
2001-07-09, Beijing, China. By: thunder | | During the first week in Beijing as I had mentioned, our group was
carted off daily to various tourist destinations. As I walked around the Forbidden City which was an official headquarters for the... |
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| Arrival and initial impressions #1
2001-07-04, Beijing, China. By: thunder | | As I am writing this my thoughts are filled with both speculation and ambivalence. I have mentioned to some fellow classmates that for me this trip has been a lifelong dream.
Previously I had fa... |
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 | Beijing Express
2003-09-13, Beijing, China. By: Flyin_scot | | Touched down in Hong Kong after a very smooth flight with Cathay Pacific. It had only been for 2 hours but verything about the flight was first class! But the best thing was saved to last, arriving i... |
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 | A week in Beijing
2003-03-15, Beijing, China. By: gard | | This is a travelogue about the trip that my wife, Nikki, and I took to China (Beijing, Xi’an and Hong Kong) in the period from March 15th to March 29th 2003. We first spent 7 days in Beijing and we go... |
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 | Beijing in Review
2002-04-02, Beijing, China. By: hawkinsd | | I heard Beijing described as the London of China, in as much as it is spread over a wide distance and has lots of fog – although Beijing’s fog is in fact smoky pollution and London never really gets f... |
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 | Spitter's Paradise
2002-07-23, Beijing, China. By: djsproule | | We arrived safely in Beijing last week and have enjoyed a period of culture shock, as could be expected. The pure density of people is something very new to us. Many of them have apparent respirator... |
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