Category: China
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Day 5&6: Ni Hao Pingyao
Jacob and I had the absolute pleasure of staying in Pingyao last night and today. It’s a small town about halfway between Beijing and Xi’an that is stuck in the late eighteenth early nineteenth century. Pingyao was one of the first banking centres in China and so had city walls…
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Beijing Memories
Our first real Chinese meal was overall quite nice. I really enjoyed it. It took us a while to settle on a restaurant but when we finally ordered the food was plentiful and delicious. We decided we would have a nice noodle dish, some fried dumplings, and Kung-pao chicken. Brynn…
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Censored Internet
We are in China for the next couple of weeks and while we are here we obviously have to follow the same rules as other Chinese citizens. This is no problem at all. I really don’t mind the rules that much. One thing I miss is proper Internet though. I…
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Day 4: Saving the Best for Last
Well I think I can safely say that today was one of the highlights of my life. We spent the day hiking along the Great Wall at Jinshaling (about 3 hours outside of Beijing). I don’t think it’s even possible to describe just how incredible it actually is. This was…
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Day 3: Taking Beijing By Bicycle
Today Jacob and I rented bicycles to tour around Beijing, and tour around we did. I’m fairly certain we covered almost the entire city today by bike. We started at our hostel in the Yong he Gong district and traveled west across the city to Houhai. Houhai is the old…
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Day 2: Squares, Scams and Security
We ended up taking it pretty easy yesterday and just hung around the area close to our hotel. We’re staying at the Candy Inn/1Hai Inn in the Yonghegong district. So far it’s great: the rooms are clean, the beds are comfortable there’s a nice atmosphere, it’s not too loud and…
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It’s All Chinese to Me
Just a quick update to let everyone know we arrived. We are both quite tired after a full night and morning of traveling but are so far loving China. It’s very quiet and beautiful, well the part we’ve seen anyway. We spent the afternoon wandering around a temple and are…
Mr. & Mrs. Vandebilt + kids 