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February 24 Biz trip in Bejing Feb 08 - sightseeingI only got few hours for sight-seeing this time but as usual, i tried my best to see as many as possible.
I visited the Temple of the Sun and Tinanmen only.
To avoid the traffic jam within the 2 rings districts, it is good to take the subway.
The Temple of the Sun is acutally a big park with some temples inside. It was relaxing the walk there and see the local people's lives.
big old trees standing there for thousand yrs
the temples and me travelling alone
Tianmen Square is the same as what we see on TV/ News. But i found it interesting to see around 50 soldiers are standing still in the subway for tourists picture taking.
finally managed to take some pictures within the loyal & enthusiastic mainland Chinese
it was so co-incident that we were in BJ on the 15th day of the Chinese New Year. That is considered as the last day to celebrate Chinese New Year + Chinese Valentine's day with a full moon. There were crackers & fireworks everywhere on the street. Full of happy ambience... i felt so lucky that i can see & experience that!
full moon
Biz trip in Beijing Feb 08 - mealsThis is the 2nd time I visited Beijing. The last time I've been there is 10 yrs ago. I expect great changes in particular becos of the Olympics in this year. When I got out of the BJ airport, I saw a lot of high-rise commercial buildings. It was shocking me as my impression on BJ was the 10 yrs ago rural look.
Well, China is still China. I still in the hotel which is so reasonable price RMB 650 per night including breakfast... and the size of the room & bed were soooo big. I think the bed can be perfectly fine with 6 people at the same time.
As usual, I had very good and big biz dinner... The famous local curise - Peking Duck.
peking duck skin wrap with pastry
or peking duck inside the crispy "pocket"
peking duck meat eaten in diff way
other "special" dishes:
togue of duck
feet of duck
goldfishes & birds houses outside toilet
icy fruits @ this expensive Peking Duck restaurant - long queue there
Lunch on 2nd day: Hot Pot~
we have hot pot in HK too... but this time we have individual little hot pot on a table. This was my first time (except teh Cafe de Coral ones).
There were over 10 diff part of the beef & lamb on the table. veyr nice!
There are some local cake which was very tasty too. it was made of sesame and some seasoning from the northern part of China. That brought me a lot of good memory on my XinJiang trip last yr.
February 17 Hiking with momo - 17 Feb 08 Yuen Longmomo is half year old la... haven't seen her for 2 weeks and she grows bigger (again) Yuen Long Shan Pui River for a walk on sunday clean her feet after walking.. what a clean & lovely momo! hope that after several months, we can still manage to carry her like today... Valatine's day 2008a surpise from far far away... thanks Erik of cos, it is always good to have dinner with best friends on this special day.. thanks Siuto, lulu, Janet, Ming Sir and my good diving friends ming sir = Alan Tam ??
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