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14 Feb 2009
Moved hostels first thing this morning to Leo's after telling Wangfujing Youth Hostel how unimpressed we were with their lack of customer service - twice we had waited for someone to help us with the Tibet booking and they never turned up. We decided to head out to the Summer Palace and were told that the best thing to do was to get the bus from Qianmen. We waited for 20 minutes for a bus and then stood on the bus in traffic queues for 2 hours before we got there! It's only 12km! Unfortunately the lake was all frozen over and so there were no boats, but we took a walk around the lake which took a couple of hours and watched someone skating on the lake. We also saw one man stripping down to his undies to go for a swim - it was -5 degrees!! The trip back was just as arduous - another 2 hours and so we were pretty tired when we finally made it back to the hostel. Stayed in the hostel and watched the film about the famous Mongol - Genghis Khan.
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