Arriving in Beijing Don't put anything here Don't put anything here Page Content Page Name (for URL) Page Title Breadcrumb Text The next morning we took a plain from Shanghai to Beijing, where we reserved a place at a hostel (through hostelworld as usually). The hostel was located in a recently gentrified "hutong" (Beijing's "favelas") which featured featured narrow alleys filled with both the original hutong life and US-style coffee houses (selling coffee at 2-3 times SF price). We were arguably walking distance to the Forbidden City and we thus wasted about 40 minutes for this walk, much of which turned out to not be worth it. We eventually hit the Forbidden City walked around it and got to Tiananmen Square where several people wanted to take pictures with us. Later in the day we ended up walking along one of the busy shopping streets nearby eventually hitting on a street lined up with street vendors selling the scarriest stuff: fried silk warms, cicadas, scorpions, etc. We settled for a snake as a compromize - scarry enough, but still edible. <~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2006-06-02-beijing-day-one/20060602_011_7543 The Forbidden City 2006-06-02-beijing-day-one/20060602_044_5185 A soldier near the Tiananmen Square 2006-06-02-beijing-day-one/20060602_057_8352 Chairman Mao 2006-06-02-beijing-day-one/20060602_066_4298 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2006-06-02-beijing-us/20060602_052_6231 2006-06-02-beijing-day-one/20060602_020_2274 2006-06-02-beijing-day-one/20060602_026_9066 Guns in the Forbidden City ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2006-06-02-beijing-day-one/20060602_083_6880 Street food in Beijing 2006-06-02-beijing-day-one/20060602_089_6680 Street food in Beijing 2006-06-02-beijing-us/20060602_078_1141 Eating a snake ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~> Advanced Fields Category 2002200320042005200620072008200920102011201220132014E. AsiaE. EuropeL's FamilyL's FriendsN. AmericaN. EuropeS. AmericaS. AsiaW. EuropeY & LY's FamilyY's Friends Prototype Redirect Permissions0 Actions Config Markup Module HTML/Meta/Keywords HTML/Meta/Description Save Hook Don't put anything here HTML Fields Main Head Body Header Menu Logo Content Template Page Sidebar Footer Tags Allowed for XSSFilter HTTP Fields Cache-Control Expires Don't put anything here Guru Fields Templates Translations Fields Edit UI Admin Edit UI A summary of your changes Don't put anything here Edit Summary Don't put anything here save preview cancel
