Riding the subway in Beijing and going to the Silk Road Market

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Sorry for the late update, but we've been crazy busy here now that we're with the karate group.

So, today we've decided to venture out on our own and do a bit of shopping, we've decided to go the the Silk Road Market, this place is quite the contrast to where we are staying where we can go downstairs and buy a 90k watch and a 45k cellphone. Silk Road is known for there counterfit items, and Wes has been asking for a couple of months to get a fake Rolex, so we're gonna try. We're lucky that to get there we only have to go 4 stops on the subway here. I've seen videos of how busy they can be here, so we head out with caution. A really good thing is that subways here are really cheap, like .25 cents to ride them. So we're off, we walk through the mall and enter the station, one thing here is you have your bags x-ray'd before you enter the subway. Yay, its not crazy busy ! We go the 4 stops, and head into the mall, and bam you feel like you've just been dumped into the lions den, the sales people are so pushy and demanding, but they pretty much have everything, from hilfiger t-shirts, to designer clothes. I know the stuff is fake but they're pretty nice fakes, very tempting! We go up a couple of floors and check out a watch vendor for some rolex watches, and wow they have lots, every type, in cheap fake and expensive fake. I take a look at the cheap ones, and dont like but them but the girl takes a box out from behind the counter and we see the nice ones, i know these are the ones for kirk and wes. They're automatic, have the holographic images on the back, etc. Anyhow, the very pushy sales lady starts off at 2900 rmb which is almost 500. After about 15 mins of haggling under the heat lamps we get her down to 1400, basically 120 each, which may or may not be a deal, not sure, but i was getting every story in the book from this girl, like i'm making her poor, it really was quite the site. Check the pic below to see what we got. After that mall visit it took so much out of us, we were so tired, and didnt do alot, basically got the kids burger king and we went out to lunch at a chinese restaurant. We had some really spicy crab. Anyhow, enough for today, tomorrow we cab it over to another hotel to meet up with the CMAC group.\

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