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Showing posts with label China. Show all posts
Showing posts with label China. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Beijing

This is the last leg of our China Trip. We met some super nice people at Woodward, Expecially Max and the Woodward Crew, thanks guys! We had some hot pot dinner ( which I have grown to LOVE). We did have ONE incident in a Muslim restaurant where we though we were going to be poisoned or something...They were asking us where we were from, if we were Muslim, etc. We thought they might not want to serve us, but eventually they asked us our order again and we just waited, fearfully, for half an hour...seeing pictures and drawings of menacing looking men on the walls... It was strange, but we didn't get sick or anything thankfully! Anyway, Here are some photos for you!

Inside of Woodward Beijing


Loving when it's Chinese AND English

New friends!

We made the Wall of Fame!
Next we stayed at the Beijing Heyuan Youth Hostel. It was very modern in the room, but traditional outside. There was a pond next to our room, I loved it!
On the Cable Car going up the Great Wall!

Tobogganing down!

Cable Cars

My honey and I at Tower 2 I think it was? Too bad it wasn't a very clear day.

We ate at this restaurant near our hostel, it was delicious and the menu was in English!

Pond next to our room

Entrance to The Forbidden City
Overall I truly enjoyed China and look forward to visiting again one day. I definitely want to go back to Hong Kong, and Shanghai. Thank again to EVERYONE in China who helped us out. Shocker Dudes ( Karl, Bob, Travis, and Yuen) in HK, George, Jason, and Ronron in Shanghai, Ping in Chengdu, and Max and the crew at Woodward Beijing!

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Chengdu!

Here are some photos from Chengdu! We flew this time, from Shanghai via Air China, which was quite an enjoyable flight ( I am not a good flyer...)
Yep, A Panda!!!!!

I made a friend! He came right up to the wall between Us, I would have reached out and touched him but I didn't want to get kicked out.

Feeding time!

They really do act JUST like a human in a panda suit.

Golden Panda!

That is one LONG pipe!

New friends!

Hot Pot, my favourite Chinese dish/dinner experience!

My new friend Ping, in China, it's very common for gal pals to hold hands or walk arm in arm

Incense for Nannu <3

My honey enjoying all the turtles in the pond!

Underwater

Getting my ears cleaned! 20 RMB, less than 3 US Dollars, totally worth it, but not for flinchers!

He had to work extra hard to get all the stuff out of Dave's ears haha
Chengdu was a short stay, we were at the Dragon Town Hostel, which organized the half-day trip to the Panda Breeding Centre. I almost regret not getting a photo with a Giant Panda Baby, but for $170 US I think I'm okay looking at the from afar...Hot Pot and La Mien were yummy. I would like to come back one day!