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16/10/09 to 18/10/09
Day 11 to Day 13 - Slow boat to China
We left Japan aboard the Yanjing , Mum and Dad splashed out and got us special first class cabins!! Boy am I glad they did because I would have hated to see the standard of a normal cabin!!! There was little to do on the boat so we played cards, DS, watched movies on the eeepc (Dad's mini laptop) and slept. The food wasn't very nice so we mainly just ate rice.
When we arrived in Tianjin Port it took about 1/2hr to go through customs. We then caught a bus to the train station, however we got off at the wrong stop twice as we had no idea where we were going and nobody spoke English until we were on the 3rd bus.
We then booked a seat on a fast train (like a bullet) to Beijing South (it was 5.40pm) and the train didn't leave until 8pm.
An hour train trip took us to Beijing South, we caught 2 subway trains to Beijing. We needed to find the hotel, but at 10pm nothing was open to help us. So we found a Maccas (I was really excited Mum and Dad let me have a Big Mac meal), had a bite to eat, rang the emergency contact number of our tour and he spoke to a taxi driver who took us to our hotel 11.30pm.
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