Today was the official "we-hate-Beijing- cab-driver-day"! And we walked for hours... Here is how it goes: 1. You stand at the side of the road and flag down one of the many cabs. 2. You'll get one of the following reactions: - drive by without paying attention to us - stop but don't understand where you want to go - simply don't want to drive there - offer to drive you for a ridiculously high amount (without turning on the meter which they should) and if you don'...

Beijing Sideways - one of the most amazing trips to the Great Wall by motorcycle with side cars and then hiking away from tourists! We were picked up right at the Hilton hotel by our tour guide Ricardo, an Italian chef, with motorcycles with side cars. It was a crazy and fun ride through Beijing out to the highway, weaving through traffic, overtaking on the emergy lane and seeing the real Chinese life. I think the pictures tell it all. First stop was at a castle,...

We arrived in Beijing with Dragonair after a 3 hour flight. First impression of mainland China: everything is huge, the airport is super-modern and big, roads wide with dense traffic and sky scrapers touch the sky. We were trying to find transportation to the hotel. There were hundreds of people lined up for taxis. Finally, we had a taxi driver, but he didn't speak any English. When I showed him the address for the Hilton hotel, he shrugged his shoulders. We had...