China

• Off to the East / Beijing Day 1

  Flight - We flew from Paris to Beijing on British airways. On the layover in London we are surprised that there are almost no Chinese [...]

   

• Beijing – Day 2

  After breakfast at the hotel, which was a mix of their idea of a western breakfast with bacon and eggs, and some Chinese food like [...]

   

• Beijing – Day 3

  After such a late night we oversleep breakfast. Tired and having only slept for 6 hours, we have to get up and run off to [...]

   
 

• Beijing – Day 4

  Today we check out the other main sights of Beijing: the Temple of Heaven and the Lama Temple. Beijing is a huge city and not [...]

   

• Hiking the Great Wall

  We woke up at 5:30 in the morning for the hiking tour to the Great Wall. The hotel front desk calls us a cab and [...]

   

• Beijing – Day 6: Summer Palace

  This is our last day in Beijing. We have tickets for a train leaving for Xi’an at 9:30pm. We check out of our hotel and [...]

   
 

• Muslim streets in Xi’An and on to Shanghai

  First thing we do in the morning is go to the train ticket office. Traveling by train here is not the easiest logistically. You can’t [...]