Beijing - continued
After the first night out in Bejing during which we ate Scorpions (taste like nice crisps) strange worms (disgusting!) and other weird stuff, we were prepared for another big walking trip in Beijing. I guess that we walked about 10-20km each day because the city is so spread out and we regularly underestimated the distances from one sightseeing spot to the other. We saw the olympic stadium (the bird’s nest), the soon to be finished CCTV headquarters, the Great Wall, the forbidden city, the Beijing city planning exhibition, etc. .Looking back, I’d say that the highlights of our stay in Beijing were the Peking International Youth Hostel for accomodation, the “three guizhou men” restaurant for the most delicious Chinese cuisine I got to taste so far and the excursion to the Great Wall (walk from Jin Shan Ling to Simatai). You can get a taste of our stay in Beijing by enjoying the following pictures:
Our room at the Peking International Youth Hostel
The roof tops of the forbidden city
Eating scorpions
Eating disgusting worms
The food market
The bird’s nest
Open Mic night at Lush
You may also want to enjoy a 360 degree view from the great wall. You can find many more pictures on Facebook.
Sitting in rainy and cold SG and reading your travel experiences is really hard. Enjoy your trip and keep posting