Beijing is truly different to the area of Yunnan I have visited thus far. Normally size and order don't go together, and with Beijing having a population of 15 million, compared to the next biggest city we had visited - Kunming at 1 million, I was expecting chaos. I was amazed and impressed at what I found; an effective traffic system, policemen earning their keep and streets relatively free of noisy interjections - both human throat and motorcar horn varieties. It also further reinforced distrust in the lonely planet's population figures, or maybe it is a sign of China's growth inspite of a single child policy, but I would suggest that figures mentioned above could easily be doubled. So it all started at the airport, arriving at the newly built terminal 3. For me, and I
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