http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Beijing/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Asia , China , Beijing en-us Thu, 20 Jun 2013 01:33:50 +0000 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 01:33:50 +0000 Dpart de Beijing pour Pingyao en train de nuit faute de places en couchette on passe 13h assis dans un wagon bond Et encore nous sommes chanceux d39autres voyageurs font le trajet debout Petite anecdote des toilettes chinois Jm a vecu la pire experience Wc dans la gare de Beijing les chinois ne tirent pas la chasse on vous laisse imaginer on vous dira juste qu39il y a avaler u http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Beijing/blog-791890.html Le temple tibetain le plus reconnu hors du Tibet.Des toits merveilleux des scultures en bois des statues envoutantes une odeur d39encens qui plane dans l39air c39est un lieu rempli de srnit et d39apaisement l39cart du brouhaha de la ville. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Beijing/blog-791862.html Un des autres lieux agrables de Beijing o nous avons pass une journe. Cet ensemble de galeries d'art contemporaines dans un ddale de vieux entrepts en dcalage avec le reste de la ville mrite le dtour. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Beijing/blog-791861.html Ames d39aventurier nous voulions sortir des sites touristiques et malgr les mises en garde nous sommes partis la dcouverte du mur Jiankou. Aprs une ascension de 2h dans la montagne sous la pluie dans la boue et les cailloux la limite de l39escalade nous avons dcid qu39il tait sage de faire demi tour sans avoir russi atteindre le fameux mur Extnus aprs http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Beijing/blog-791860.html Hutong le vieux Beijing un des quartier selon nous le plus agrable o le pass mdival de la ville est le plus visible. On a pris le temps de s39y perdre et d39y dcouvrir des bizzareries culinaires. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Beijing/blog-791859.html La place Tian39anmen et la cit interdite trs impressionnantes cause de leur taille et de leur histoire. Mais nous laissent une impression d39austrite et d39oppression et sont trs surveilles machine rayon X pour les sacs fouille svre des chinois polices et militaires omniprsents. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Beijing/blog-791857.html Aprs une premire experience en train couchette ShanghaiBeijing de 13h voyage agrable la premire chose qui nous a interpell c39est le ciel. Estce du brouillard Et non aprs s39tre renseign c39est bien de la pollution La vie est plus chre qu39 Shanghai la ville est moins jolie mais il y a beaucoup de sites historiques et culturels visiter. Nous avons f http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Beijing/blog-791838.html Beijing visa free stays which starts on January 1 2013. It will be a shame if you missed this chance to tour in Beijing. To get better understanding of Beijing China here are some recommendation attractions Beijing Zoo Hutong and Olympic Stadium. Especially we also arrange a short visit to China Tea House for you to enjoy tea ceremony.Beijing ZooLocated in Haidian District of Beijing Beiji http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Beijing/Olympic-Park/blog-790686.html The apartment located at the Beijing CBD area which is most flourishing site for the multinational companies. The apartment building was complete the construction and started to move in at the beginning of the year of 2008. It is a 4 star standard hotel style apartment with a 10m high sunshine hall. All the apartments here are in the same decoration with the wooden floor set with fully equipped o http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Beijing/Chaoyang-district/Central-Business-district-/blog-790067.html Wonderful Wangjing sunny budget studio apartment located in the newly and great security apartment building.It is 5.5km and about 15 minutes by taxi from the apartment to Beijing International Exhibition Center. This selfcartering unit is very comfortable and ideal for a long or short term stay. It has beautiful timber floors clean and contemporary furnished fully equipped.The open kitchen and http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Beijing/Chaoyang-district/Wangjing/blog-789869.html All the time I want to explore the culture of China. Hence I joined a one days Beijing bus tour to Hutong Lama Temple and Beijing Zoo.ltstrong stylemsobidifontweight normalgtLamaltstrong stylemsobidifontweight normalgt Templeltstrong stylemsobidifontweight normalgtOnce upon a time Lama Temple was the palatial residence of Emperor Yongzheng when he was just a http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Beijing/Lama-Temple-/blog-789762.html Half Day Gaobeidian Village Tour including Guo Shoujing statue a local nursery Gaobeidian Classic Furniture Street a local market and a local house with hotel transfer private tour guide and dinner with a local family.Gaobeidian village is an ancient village where you can know the real life in Beijing there you can experience the special village life with traditional customs and simple life h http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Beijing/blog-789746.html After a rough evening due to misconstrued information by our tour guide Jing the tour bus was filled with excited about our upcoming fun filled day. Jing had swindled us into spending 39 on a Rickshaw ride and a dinner with a local family the night before. In order to make up for her error she added a few extra stops to our trip for the day we were going to stop for a picture with the WaterCu http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Beijing/Changping/Changping/blog-789719.html Our last day full day had finally arrived but we still had much to look forward to.Our first stop was a Jade Museum. Here we learned the history of Jade and more importantly how to tell fake Jade from real jade the noise it makes when you hit two jade pieces together. We were then given time to walk around the store. Not very interested in buying Jade I took to looking at the intriquite carving http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Beijing/blog-789706.html For our first full day in Beijing we head off to the Summer Palace where Chinese Emperors use to spend their summers. The Palace surrounded the Kunming Lake and offered amazing views of Chinese architecture. The Summer Palace is also home to the worlds longest corridor apparently listed in the Gennis world record book yet to be confirmed. After snapping more pics we boarded yet another b http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Beijing/blog-789705.html Encompasses over 68 hectares Beihai Park is the oldest and most unique preserved imperial gardens in China. With 1000 years history Beihai Park is also the number one in the most beautiful three seas in Beijing. I want to recommend Beihai Park to you if your travel to Beijing city.ltstrong stylemsobidifontweight normalgtBrief Introduction of Beihai ParkAs with many of Chinese impe http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Beijing/Beihai-Park/blog-789620.html After another energy consuming weekend I was happy to get back on the highspeed train in comfort to Beijing. The ride I had in store was about five and a half hours and I slept for the majority of it. Id have to say I fell in love with the bullet train the first time I took it en route to Suzou. I39ve always loved trains for the fact that you can actually observe a bit of the country that http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Beijing/blog-789604.html Our very last meal of the trip was a traditional Peking Duck. Our anticipation had been growing since the previous day. For an appetizer we had hit up the Beijing night market where you can buy just about anything deep fried and I do mean anything. As the street vendor said You want eat testicles BALLS as he included an appropriate or one could argue inappropriate gesture. As we walked awa http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Beijing/blog-789370.html Today we woke up and headed to Old Shanghai. Apparently this was where all the Chinese lived when Shanghai was occupied by Europeans. The Chinatown of Chinese Shanghai if you will. This area was pretty cool. Very ornate and filled with super Chinese things as one would expect. Walking around we found a store selling these round moon cake things that were really cool looking. We figured we39d b http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Beijing/blog-789363.html China39s wildly fluctuating urban air pollution is the worst in the world and escalating prompting some residents of Beijing to seek homes elsewhere. I arrived in Beijing around 630AM on 5282013 but the air pollution started to heat up and I could not eventually see farther than a couple of hundred feet away. It is scary and harmful for your health if you get stuck there long. I just stopped http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Beijing/blog-788925.html