A Great Wall and a Forbidden City
March 19th 2007 The soft sleeper to Beijing was awesome. They give you little slippers to wear and serve dinner, plus there's a western toilet in one of the two lavatories in each car. Very nice. Too bad it's too expensive.
We got in to Beijing around 7 and I headed straight to the Saga hostel. It's located down a "hutong" (small alleyways that are quickly disappearing in Beijing) and in a very local part of t
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