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Beijing Hutongs: Old China Down The Alleys
Blog: Uncommontravel - 2 December 2009
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A perfect day for bananafish
Blog: Drifting Aimless - 1 December 2009
23 Sept (32 Days on the road, 12,000 + ? km from home) Get up, get out of bed, run a comb across my head. Meet Crazy Aussie in the bathroom, he has a strange stilted shyness to him when he is sober, the sort of mannerism of a man who has possibly just committed some [...]
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Into the Hutong
Blog: Drifting Aimless - 18 November 2009
There is somthing deeply frightening about the bufoonery of military pageantry. Observing it up close you cant help but feel that you are looking upon some great and powerful simpleton an enormous muscular brute with the petulant mind of a child. Military show, long since regarded as obscene in most other parts of the developed [...]
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Scammed in Beijing
Blog: Drifting Aimless - 10 November 2009
19th Sept Perhaps their fears were well founded after all, or so I was forced to concede strolling back along Tianamen Square when not 24 hours after Eoin and Ashling had left I got scammed. I wasnt especially annoyed with myself since Id unwittingly blundered into the trap and managed, once it had been strung, with [...]
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Expat Life in Chengdu, China
Blog: GoBackpacking - 22 October 2009
"During last year's earthquake I was on Qing Cheng Shan which is one of the birthplaces of Daoism."Buy travel insurance from Worldnomads.com (Lonely Planet's preferred carrier) No related posts.
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Travel Video – The Longest Way 1.0 – One Year Walk/Beard Grow Time Lapse
Blog: GoBackpacking - 10 October 2009
_ I love this video of Christoph Rehage as he sets off to walk from China to Germany. Many others do too – it has received at least 500,000 views on YouTube. While he didn’t reach his goal, it is clear he had many adventures along the way. You can read more at his blog. Buy travel [...]Buy travel insurance from Worldnomads.com (Lonely Planet's preferred carrier) No related posts.
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Too Many Men in Tiananmen
Blog: Around The World On The Toilet - 5 October 2009
Yesterday we arrived in Beijing to sunny skies and temperatures of 20 degrees, after driving from Galway to Dublin, taking a flight to Heathrow, then the 9 hour flight to Beijing, then a train then taxi to our hostel – Santilun Youth Hostel. The staff here are really nice, and so far we have only tried one thing from their menu but it was amazing French toast. The shower leaves little to be desired (pressure) but we have a great king bed with lots of sunlight. I seem to not be ...
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Beijing Public Bus Tour
Blog: Genuine China—NihaoGuide Blog - 21 September 2009
I know you have hundreds of reasons not to take public bus in Beijing: traffic jam, always crowded, language barrier, SARS, H1N1 and so on. It’s not a surprise that more than 75% travelers from western countries do not have public bus experience in Beijing, but public bus is where you can best touch and feel the real China and ordinary Chinese. Just try to avoid the rush-hour; you will have a comfortable and unique public experience in Beijing.
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Rent a Bicycle in Beijing
Blog: Genuine China—NihaoGuide Blog - 13 September 2009
Beijing has a large number of bicycle rental shops-especially around subway and park entrances. the city is home to a large number of bicycle rental shops - especially around subway and park entrances. Each rental shop has its own specific rental policies, but we can still provide some helpful general information.
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Sunday Specials – Unusual Hotels: “Oh My God!” Hotel in China
Blog: PassportChop.com Travel Blog - Reviews, Travel Experiences - 9 August 2009
China’s Tianzi Garden Hotel You might be wondering why am I showing you a picture of 3 Chinese gods, Fu (in the centre (in red) symbolizing fortune – Mandarin = 福), Lu (to your right (in green) symbolizing prosperity – Mandarin = 禄) and Shou (symbolizing longevity – Mandarin = 寿) Well this is the structure of [...] Related posts:Sunday Specials – Unusual Hot
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Trekking Along the Great Wall of China
Blog: Brilliant Tips Travel Blog - 18 July 2009
Beijing is a vast and amazing city with so much to see and do. Visitors can track down bargains at the wonderful silk markets, see the hutongs or back lanes of Beijing by rickshaw, walk to Tiananmen Square or find a great restaurant for Peking Duck. Of course, no trip to China is complete without a walk on the Great Wall. The Great Wall is an incredible piece of engineering which stretches over 6,000 kilometers from the eastern coast of China all the way to the mountain ridges north of ...
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Beijing, the wall, Shanghai, China.
Blog: Rice and Rock Concerts - 18 July 2009
The Great Wall of China – Images by Jamie McDonald D5675, Shanghai South Railway Station to Hangzhou, 17.58 scheduled arrival time. This wasn’t a train that I was anticipating sitting on. A couple of weeks ago I booked a flight from Shanghai to Kuala Lumpur on Air Asia X. I never took too much notice of [...]
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Xi’an, Turpan, Pingyao. China
Blog: Rice and Rock Concerts - 13 July 2009
Terracotta Warriors, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China – Images by Jamie McDonald Well, one thing I have learnt in the past week since leaving Xi’an and arriving in Beijing. Don’t ever, ever catch the bus from Xi’an to Pingyao – it is bus number AF432 and it leaves from the bus station next to the train station in [...]
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Bright lights, big city, Beijing
Blog: MatthewGain.com - 11 June 2009
GUEST POST – Elizabeth Dawson The famous portrait After a few weeks trooping along the Silk Road, taking in small towns and villages and enjoying the great outdoors, it was high time us champagne-swilling, urban PR-types headed to our true spiritual home – the big smoke – and when it comes to big smokes these days they [...]
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Yonghe Temple Beijing: Smoke and Prayers
Blog: asian ramblings - 28 May 2009
Prayers at the Yonghe Temple in Beijing, China. The temple is one of the largest and most important Tibetan Buddhist temples in the world._________________________________________________________________________ © 2009 Asian Ramblings. Unauthorized use prohibited Why not follow Asian Ramblings on Twitter?
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