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China Beijing to Shenzhen and Hong Kong

Posted by hutchie | 14th December 2008

Beijing

Arriving in Beijing was somewhat overwhelming. The simple task of getting to our hostel from the airport, with preprepared directions in Chinese characters was made difficult due to innumerable illegal taxis trying to rip us off at every turn. Ultimately we managed to bus it in to the city centre successfully, and ultimately found a legal taxi who still managed to charge us double claiming he couldn’t find our destination. A 4 km trip resulted in a 12 km trip – we find it hard to believe he didn’t know his way around the vicinity of the forbidden city. Frustrating!!!!

The top 10 highlights of Beijing were:

10. Bussing out to the Summer palace – beautiful gardens and lake. We also saw a free theatrical kung fu show.

9. The silk market which was 6 levels of the craziest market I’ve ever seen. I have never been hassled so much from every single stall you walk past, and bargaining was hard! Boy do they try you for extremely high prices! We managed to talk do

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