Day 1 After finally arriving in China at 9:30 the first task was to find a place to stay, as the hostel we were going to stay at fell through the day before. We knew roughly where we would like to stay by tiananmen square so we got a bus to the centre of town. This bus took us to the centre of Beijing but nowhere near where it said it did and we were left trying to find another bus but to no avail. We finally decided to get a taxi (which are pretty cheap) to the square. Once we were at the square there were some nervous moments while we trekked through the Hutongs (chinese backroads) trying to find a place to stay while carrying our heavy backpacks. We finally stumbled across one hostel
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