Gordie's dreaming place

back from Beijing...

hey i'm back from Beijing, it wasnt as cold as i expected, too bad! i mean it didnt feel that cold even when it's like 1 or 2 degree, it was way colder at women's camp i tell you!

anyway, the first thing i saw on the way to lunch...

i didnt know that i had a hotel, lol! it's called Gloria Plaza Hotel! cool...












after lunch we went to Tiantan, which is where the Emperor prayed for harvest...


see it's not that cold, that's one of the architectures of Tiantan, they are renovating others...i dont know how old that building is, maybe a few hundred?




















then that night we went to a place where all Beijing-ren like to go eat, there are hundreds of stalls selling kebabs and other interesting stuff, it was quite interesting but i didnt eat any, since the hygiene wasnt that good...









look at these girls, isnt it awesome? we went to a circus, and yea, saw a lot of amazing things and performances...geez, i dont know how long they've been practising...

the girls in the pic were spinning plates with a long stick, they had like 5 in one hand, and they had to do some really difficult postures...amazing!






this was taken in Summer Palace, where the Emperor and Empress spent there summer holiday in order to avoid the heat in their Palace...the trees are pretty!










this is the entrance of the Palace, the Forbidden City...i think it's about 600 years-old...











they are making dumplings...yummmmm













<----that's Great Wall... it's 10,000 miles long, and it took 256 years to build, i have no idea how they built it in the old days, how they transported the stones and all those...another incredible architecture!








and it's really steep, you can easily fall if you dont grab the rail...

posted by Gloz @ 1:11 PM