Chengde
Wow. It's crazy leaving for the week-end. Totally changes your frame of mind.
And it also makes you incredibly tired. Oh well.
We had a marvelous time. We came aboard five minutes before the train left Saturday morning at 7:16 AM. Chinese trains are almost always exactly on time. We didn't sleep on the train. We found our hotel on the train - there are "hotel sharks" if you will on the train, who look for customers. We found one who would give all five of us a room for 100 yuan (20 yuan each), just over $3 Cdn. In China, you can find somebody willing to take you anywhere by car or mini-van, so you really don't have to worry too much about transport, and then there's always, always ALWAYS a place to stay - although the conditions aren't always up to standard.
In this hotel there were no showers and the stalls in the bathrooms were not exactly private.
Nevertheless, it was only for a night.
We walked around the immense Summer Palace Saturday afternoon. We spent three hours eating dinner in a nice restaurant where we ate the local specialty: venison (deer meat). When we left at 10 PM, the city was pretty dead. We went to a nearby KTV where we sang until around midnight. We were sleeping in our beds by 1 AM.
Sunday we woke up around 9 AM and we went to a great temple just outside the city walls which was reconstructed to look like the Llama temple in Tibet. It was pretty impressive.
We went to the train station to get our tickets for the 2:40 PM train back to Beijing. We had lunch in a little "bui-bui" (French term for small hole-in-the-wall) across the street.
We were back in Beijing at 6:40 PM (four hours away, exactly). We decided to walk around a bit to find a bus station. The evening was really nice and we got to admire the city lights of Beijing. I was pretty tired.
We arrived in front of North Gate around 8:30 PM and we found ourselves a good restaurant to eat dinner in.
I came home to look over my lesson plan for the week. *big sigh* And then off I went to bed.
I'm still tired. Hope the day goes well...
Take care and have fun.
And it also makes you incredibly tired. Oh well.
We had a marvelous time. We came aboard five minutes before the train left Saturday morning at 7:16 AM. Chinese trains are almost always exactly on time. We didn't sleep on the train. We found our hotel on the train - there are "hotel sharks" if you will on the train, who look for customers. We found one who would give all five of us a room for 100 yuan (20 yuan each), just over $3 Cdn. In China, you can find somebody willing to take you anywhere by car or mini-van, so you really don't have to worry too much about transport, and then there's always, always ALWAYS a place to stay - although the conditions aren't always up to standard.
In this hotel there were no showers and the stalls in the bathrooms were not exactly private.
Nevertheless, it was only for a night.
We walked around the immense Summer Palace Saturday afternoon. We spent three hours eating dinner in a nice restaurant where we ate the local specialty: venison (deer meat). When we left at 10 PM, the city was pretty dead. We went to a nearby KTV where we sang until around midnight. We were sleeping in our beds by 1 AM.
Sunday we woke up around 9 AM and we went to a great temple just outside the city walls which was reconstructed to look like the Llama temple in Tibet. It was pretty impressive.
We went to the train station to get our tickets for the 2:40 PM train back to Beijing. We had lunch in a little "bui-bui" (French term for small hole-in-the-wall) across the street.
We were back in Beijing at 6:40 PM (four hours away, exactly). We decided to walk around a bit to find a bus station. The evening was really nice and we got to admire the city lights of Beijing. I was pretty tired.
We arrived in front of North Gate around 8:30 PM and we found ourselves a good restaurant to eat dinner in.
I came home to look over my lesson plan for the week. *big sigh* And then off I went to bed.
I'm still tired. Hope the day goes well...
Take care and have fun.
posted by Caro at 7:26 AM
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boui-boui = greasy spoon
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