Monday, June 15, 2009

8 Days Beijing + Shanghai Twin Cities

Day 2: Beijing

Great Wall 万里长城 - JuYongGuan Pass 局庸关 -> Ming Tomb 明十三陵 - ChangLing Tomb 长陵 -> Rickshaw for HuTong Tour 三轮车游胡同-> 奥运人家家访 - > WangFuJing Street 王府井街 & WangFuJing Food Street 王府井 -> Symphony Opera [Night of Beijing Music Show 北京之夜]




Great Wall 万里长城 - JuYongGuan Pass 局庸关
JuYongGuan Pass 局庸关 is a pass through the mountains in an 18kn long valley named GuanGou which is in ChangPing County, more than 50km from Beijing City. It is one of the three greatest passes of the Great Wall of China.




















^U will not be able to feel how magnificient the Great Wall till U're there....




Ming Tomb 明十三陵 - ChangLing Tomb 长陵
Ming Tombs was given to the mausoleums of 13 emperors of the Ming Dynasty.






^Emperor of Zhu Di


^Emperor robe


^Empress robe




^Inside the Tomb museum




Rickshaw for HuTong Tour 三轮车游胡同
Hutongs are Beijing's traditional alleys formed by lines of siheyuan四合院, traditional courtyard residences. Many neighbourhoods were formed by joining one siheyuan to another to form a hutong, and then joining one hutong to another. The word hutong is also used to refer to such neighbourhoods.


^胡同里四合院的街门


^A typical entrance to a 四合院




^Hutong roofscapes viewed from Drum Tower


^Mini HuTong




WangFuJing Street 王府井街 & WangFuJing Food Street 王府井小吃街
WangFuJing is a popular area with large shopping malls.


















^Live scorpions & I saw ppl buying it & the hawker BBQ on the spot.... *gross*

After a 2 hrs in 王府井, we proceeded to watch the 北京之夜, which I found it so boring that I nearly slept in it.....

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