Early start today in order to make the high speed train departing at 9:50am. Believe it or not the alarm had to be set for 6am as we knew the short ...
Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City, and the Palace Museum; this was a big walking day and time on our feet. We joined a tour to cover off these places...
Is there nothing more quintessential than eating Peking Duck in Beijing, or more precisely (but outdated) eating Peking Duck in Peking? (If you̵...
Today we headed north of Beijing to the Olympic Park, and to see the bird’s nest for real. Before we got that far though we spotted the Olympic Towe...
We booked a MuBus Tour for this day trip to the Mutianyu section of the Great Wall. This section of the wall is about an hour drive outside Beijing ...
Today we went to Universal Studios Beijing as we like a theme park, and this one has been built and run like a US theme park; clean, well looked aft...
Conveniently located down the road from our hotel, this UNESCO world heritage site (https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/881/) should have been easy to or...
It seems to get worse … The taxi drives us from the airport, it’s quite a long drive as the airport is situated someway from the city of...
What a welcome to Beijing!!! NOT!!! The announcement on the aircraft, to my ears, was along the lines of if you don’t record fingerprints when...
So, our last day in Hong Kong, and the end of the trip in our first country. We’ve had a great few days here, but took it a little easier on t...
