Blogs from Beijing, China, Asia - page 448

Stone stone is the son of Mr. Shu, the man in red lantern house. He is unbelievable, makes millitary tanks models out of nothing...-_-./crazy. Here are some pictures. You Rock!! Stone!!... read more

He who has not climbed the Great Wall is not a true man. - Mao Zedong Yesterday, Robbie became a true man. __________________________________________________________________ He who wins at cribbage on the Great Wall is the almighty cribbage champion FOREVER! - Robb Modica Yesterday, Sarah became the almighty cribbage champion. _________________________________________________________________ It was obviously a big day for both of us yesterday. We headed out of Beijing in the morning and drove two hours northeast of the city to get to a section of the Great Wall called Mutianyu. This section of the wall is supposedly a little less commercial and offers a more "authentic" experience of the Wall -- (though most of the people in our tour group took the cable car to the top - sigh -). We, however, decided to climb to the top, and ... read more

Hello, I am in Beijing now, sleeping fine and learning lots of interesting things--like how women have to pee in a hole in the ground and public bathrooms don't provide toilet paper (I thought that opening would spice things up a bit). We climbed the Great Wall today, which was quite interesting...tons and tons of people there. I can't upload a photo yet b/c I am on a public computer...sorry. Tonight we went to a traditional Chineese dinner and amongst other more edible things, had frog, chicken feet, soft bones, and pork skins in jelly (I didn't eat any of them but Peter B did--I think he took a liking to the feet!)...We also saw three boys who were training in martial arts and they were like the matrix, spinning and kicking in the air, they ... read more

Say Good-bye to JB's eloquent descriptions and accurate imagery, not to mention all the BIG WORDS! I'm back in charge, with true blogging enthusiasm and less skill. Beijing offers some of the most famous historical sites - The Great Wall, The Ming Tombs, The Forbidden City, The Summer Palace and Tiennamen Square - of which we have been to see all. As could be expected, the visiting crowds were enormous - and this was not peak season. Large tour groups (Asian, European, North American), pushy vendors, vacationing Chinese families, guides with microphones, back packers and a few beggars present an awesome spectacle in themselves. The pictures we took of The Great Wall are as memorable for the mass of coloured umbrellas filling the width and length of the wall as the grandeur of the Great Wall ... read more

Well, the reason we spent so much time docked in Hong Kong (5 days) was because there were multiple SAS trips traveling to mainland China. These were all “presale trips”, trips that you had to sign up for before the ship left back in june because they are all overnight trips. I didn’t sign up because all the China ones were just about, or over, $1000. And I just thought that was a little much. However, about a week or two before Hong Kong…I think I was in Singapore at the time, I got extremely upset that I wouldn’t be traveling to mainland China. How could I come this far and NOT see the Great Wall? I just thought it would be something I would regret forever. So I thought about it and thought about it, ... read more