Holidays in the heart of China... Trip to the capital Beijing!!!!
our last intercontinental trip was in 2006 in USA and Canada, and now and then we decided to visit another continent. . . 's asia. our choice 'was the Japanese, but we did not hesitate to stop five days in Beijing as our Air China flight made a stop in Beijing. I must say that this and 'was a' good choice since the end we were much 'less fascinated by China and Japan. Beijing, and 'a city' beautiful, Tian'anmen Square and the City 'are prohibited as well as the heart of Beijing' s entire China. thousands of Chinese flock to this area and take pictures to 'huge portrait of Mao Zedong inscribed the entrance to the city' probity. beautiful the temple of heaven, surrounded by a large green park, where we could see how Beijingers spend their free time dancing in a group to music or playing with a ball of foam football. Obviously we did not miss a visit made in the typical Chinese markets, where they were sold skewered scorpion or grasshopper, a real crap on Schina thrilling! ! Apart from these delicious kebabs markets can make good purchases such as kimonos, shirts and various panda, of course, always negotiating. one day we did a tour arranged by our hotel, which has brought us so much with bus and guide in English to the legendary Great Wall. This tour of group 'was fantastic, in fact we ended up in an excellent group with two nice gentlemen Swedish, a Korean American girl and a girl. with them we also tasted an excellent Chinese lunch, or rather they ate and we pretended. . . together we were well on 'immense wall also visit the famous Ming Tombs, then a center where they worked jade in another medical center and a factory was working on the' short, a beautiful day remember that long. beautiful, 'was the visit to the Olympic district, which has about 10 months before the Olympic Games in 2008. get inside the Olympic Stadium many times and seen on TV 'was exciting. Beijing to move underground and 'really easy, placards written with our characters are clear, fortunately, because' very few people here speak English, and this fact 'been a small problem, besides that of eating and hot, In fact the temperature was always above 35 ° queso with spikes up to 43 ° mixed smog will also make it difficult to breathe. valentina animal lover, asked me to bring the zoo to see pandas in fact Chinese. . . , So 'taxi (very cheap) we went to the Beijing Zoo. pandas were a bit ', or rather very dirty, and very fragrant. . . Did not give the impression of being very good, perhaps they suffered 43 °. . . roam the streets of Beijing and 'was great, I will back again in China, perhaps to see shangahi, Xian (Terracotta Museum) and the most' rugged, short, China and I 'liked a lot, but eat have a bit hot 'ruined our stay. . . claudio and valentine greetings from china (20 June 2009-25 June 2009)