China Travels - Day 1 to 3: Shanghai to Beijing
Hey everyone, hope you're enjoying preparing for Christmas and whatnot. The trip is going great so far... I'll just quickly fill you in on it.
For those who don't know right now I'm travelling with Courtenay and Felix. I go to school with Courtenay and I met Felix on a crab trip at Yang Cheng Lake (dad met him too). Felix has been a travel agent for quite awhile and knows absolutely everything there is to know about China. Basically, he rules and gets us out of all the tough scrapes.
December 13 - Flew out of Shanghai to Beijing, which only took 2.5 hours. Thanks to Felix (I'll be saying that alot) we got the tickets for the same price as the train tickets, only 490 yuan. We found our hostel (see pic) and got right out there trucking around the city. We explored Hou Hai Lake, which is just crawling with pubs. We also got to see some ice fishermen catch a fish in the lake by only using a flashlight, hooks, and quick reflexes. The hooks actually grab the side of the fish and then the fisherman has to launch the fish out of the water. Also went to Beihai Park.
For those who don't know right now I'm travelling with Courtenay and Felix. I go to school with Courtenay and I met Felix on a crab trip at Yang Cheng Lake (dad met him too). Felix has been a travel agent for quite awhile and knows absolutely everything there is to know about China. Basically, he rules and gets us out of all the tough scrapes.
December 13 - Flew out of Shanghai to Beijing, which only took 2.5 hours. Thanks to Felix (I'll be saying that alot) we got the tickets for the same price as the train tickets, only 490 yuan. We found our hostel (see pic) and got right out there trucking around the city. We explored Hou Hai Lake, which is just crawling with pubs. We also got to see some ice fishermen catch a fish in the lake by only using a flashlight, hooks, and quick reflexes. The hooks actually grab the side of the fish and then the fisherman has to launch the fish out of the water. Also went to Beihai Park.
Yeah, I don't know how to rotate pics on these hostel comps.
December 14 - Went to the Forbidden City. Got there late so we got to see the sun go down. It turned a deep shade of red and looked absolutely incredible. After this we were lucky enough to see the traditional daily flag ceremony and then explore Tiananmen Square. Also saw the Forbidden City from Jingshan Park.
View of the Forbidden City from JingShan Park.
Red Sunset in Forbidden City.
December 15 - Went to the Summer Palace.
December 16 - Went to the Great Wall at Simatai. Unbelievable.
posted by Scotty at 1:52 AM
1 Comments:
I have heard of this Felix (the Cat) MaoMao and his unique ability to transform innocent (though decadent) young capitalist roader running dogs into model citizens of the communist state through clever manipulation of their supposedly "tourist" experience.
Beware of the true face behind the inscrutable mask my naive friends.
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