Temple of Heaven
have you noticed how all the temples tend to look pretty much the same. well, if you haven’t, we certainly have. but then, there comes the Temple of Heaven.
Jinan and Tai’shan
a small exercise in empathy. Imagine the following: it’s golden week in China (this is an entire week off for most of the population of the country – the only one every year); we decided to go on a tour of several locations relatively far from Beijing. and by relatively far i mean 12-14 hours … Read more
How would you change my blog?
As i love all my readers , i’m really curious if you would like to change anything in the blog, so please fill out the poll. It’s possible to select a maximum of 3 answers. Thanks! b UPDATE: thanks for the votes!! as most of you would like more text in the posts, and … Read more
The Summer Palace – in pictures
Take an extremely bright, sunny but smoggy day and stroll down to the summer palace. ancient playground of the emperors and empresses. rebuilt from stolen navy money by empress Cixi for her own pleasure; and this is what you’ll see.
The Badaling Great Wall – clear blue skies
This time the weather was on our side and it’s true what they say, badaling is the tourist destination, but if you have enough stamina and walk farther than others, you can get the true great wall feeling.
