We have been back from Beijing for already two weeks. But the experience was to good to not write anything about it. Highlight this month was definitely the Great Wall. So of course you get to see the pictures.
Beijing is a big big city, but coming from Shanghai that isn't even to obvious. I loved the hutong's that still spread through the city. A couple of alley's built around courtyards. In there you get the community feeling of a little village inside the big city. Our hostel was in a hutong, lot's of the inhabitants of the alleys are sitting outside in the evening drinking tea and playing Mahjong. We really enjoyed walking through these hutong's when we were getting from tourist site to tourist site.
We saw the Forbidden city and the Great Wall so finally got close to China's history and culture. Amazing! I feel that we now have seen more of the real China. It was worth the 5h train ride and the freezing cold weather. We really didn't expect it to be 15C, 15C less than Shanghai. Brrrr!
Last weekend we tried to relax in HongKong. But there are so many beaches in HongKong to relax that we need a holiday from relaxing! It was lovely to splash in the sea and enjoy the green hills.
Two amazing weekends in which we enjoyed every single thing that China has to give. .... Ok maybe not the scorpions on a skewer ..
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