Passing into China, the scenery becomes more green and mountainous. Seeing this scenery I can imagine how Chinese poets got inspired by the landscape here.
Mountains and fields.
Look!!! The Great Wall in the distance! I can finally say I’ve seen the Great Wall! 😂
Sometimes you can’t help but be impressed by Chinese infrastructure. Reminds me of that movie “2012” with Kevin Spacey in it. 😂
According to the train conductor, Beijing is surrounded by mountains on three sides and this part to the North has the best scenery.
Goats!!!
Some kind of really remote station.
Hey guys! Lol! 🙋🙋🙋
Chinese village.
Like a mirror reflection.
A more modern Chinese village.
Our train got delayed by over three hours for some reason so I only have the evening to spend here in Beijing.
Welcome to Beijing!
Ugh, so crowded. 😦
Dammit!!! Too many people! 😫
Wandering through the hutongs, we arrive at Li Qun Roast Duck. When in Peking… you know what I must do: eat Peking duck! 😂
The restaurant is quite busy, had to wait for seats even though we arrived at 7pm.
How the duck is roasted.
Ordered 2 people meal, the black drink is plum juice, so good I had 2 bottles. 😂
Mmmmmmmmmmm!!!! Peking duck!!! I’m so hungry as I type this! 😭
Yes, waaaay too much for two people.
After dinner, we wandered towards Tiananmen Square. Here’s people dancing as exercise I guess.
I didn’t realise you can’t actually enter the square at night, lame! 😑
Why aren’t people allowed in at night, they think students will start congregating here again or something???
They even have people standing guard! 😒
Monument to the People’s Heroes in front of the Great Hall of the People.
National Museum of China.
Tiananmen.
Standing guard in front of Mao.
“All hail the People’s Republic of China”, “People of the world unite banzai!” is what the sign says.
Ice block for only RMB$1! Tastes like bubble gum flavour.
Look at this housing agent ad infringing on Slam Dunk copywrite, which of course, doesn’t exist in China.
At night, I parted ways with Maria since she was staying in Beijing for another couple of nights while I’ll be flying to Hokkaido in the morning. It’s back to single traveling! 😭😭😭
View of Beijing Station from my hotel. (Not from my room, from a window in the corridor. 😂)
At around midnight, I noticed that I had made a mistake in my upcoming hotel reservations so I had to move the hotel nights around a bit but since I can’t use Google in China, I had great difficulty finding correct hotels, comparing location and prices, etc. In the end I ended up staying up until 4am until I got everything sorted out.
Around ½ of The World in 80 Days 