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Hello everyone! So sorry we haven't posted our blog sooner but........well were just having to much fun, China is amazing!
Ok, well we landed in Beijing and made our way straight to our hostel which is so relaxing, cheap beer, good music and a great place to socialise. We started off by going to see all the popular sights such as, The forbidden city, Tian'amen Sq, the great wall, temple of heaven, the hutong (old Beijing) and of course the zoo.
The great wall was such a good day, we could see for miles, it was freezing up there but we kept warm due thanks to the challenging steps in the wall, some were literally vertical! but the best part of the day was the way you can descend the wall...toboggan! (optional), they just give you a little toboggan and away you go at a ridiculously fast speed. It took 35 minutes to climb up the wall and 2minutes to slide back down!
The Zoo was a nice chilled day, Its probably the only thing which looks old, as everything else in China has had an amazing face lift. But you could basically touch half the animals, one chinese man was feeding ice-tea to the brown bear and nobody cared!!
But the highlight of Beijing was being chased but a tuk-tuk driver. The story goes we wanted to see the Beijing underground city, but couldn't find it anywhere amd this man kept looking over our shoulder at our map saying he knew where it was. So we eventually agreed a price, then he took us to this locked door with a padlock and said it was the entrance to the underground city, then wanted the money. To cut a long story short we didnt pay him and he followed us for 15minutes shouting chinese! haha the best part was we agreed a price of 10p but it was the principal.
We met up with Laura's friend Katherine and her boyfriend Liu. We spent the day at her flat in Beijing and helped prepare a traditional chinese meal (nothing like you get in england). We made dumplings which Laura is addicted to and various other cold dishes, we also had traditional chinese tea. It was the best experience we've had since we landed!
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