Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Our summer trip to Beijing and Mongolia,first part,July & August 2009













Our trip to Beijing and then Mongolia has been started and I could reach to my Blog site after 10 days due to no access to the site.so now I am not going to write our stories and our trip life,but so far Beijing for a week was nice and I have got my visa for Europe and these few days in mongolia has been terrific and expensive due to tour rto different places ..but we are planning further for our trip to Europe ,first back to Xian and then again Beijing...till a while I will be back here hopefully access to wirte the whole stories of trip.




I am back home to Xian now and after 2 days holiday got electricity back and can sit behind lab top and wirte about our unfinished 2 weeks holiday,thank god!

With more explanation"

Our trip started finally on the 5th of July and we got our flight with so much discount to Beijing ,trip was not too bad besides Wijbren always have difficulties sitting on the buses orwhen we are on board. Anyhow it takes 1 hour at least to reach from the airport to the city by metro and luckily we were familiar with the hostel which I went there in my first trip to Beijing .Peking hotel is located in the center of town and on the East side of Tinamen square in fact.


After getting out of Metro it takes 15 minutes walk to reach there we spend the whole Sunday evening resting and hanging out in the neighborhood .
There are plenty of succulent Dumpling shops and palatable noodle shops which are pretty famous in Beijing.

Monday morning we went to the Bahai Park which I honesty can’t count how many times I have been there. It sounds boring ,hideous to be in a place couple of time, but to me it is nice always to be in Parks and we both love gardens and nature ,specifically parks.

It is located half Kilometer far from the North gate of Forbidden city and used to be part of pleasure of Emperor to be there in summer time in dynasties periods .

Wijbren was amazed with natural beauty there and we walked around 3 hours around. The main scenery of Beihai park is composed of :

Beihai lake, Jade Islet, Jinxinhai, Nine Dragon Screen, Round City, White Pagoda, Suhavatigarden, Yong'an Temple and many other interesting ones.
Baihai park has temple, pagoda, artificial hills and a big lake which is so refreshing for getting out of the town in summer and start paddling around an hour on the lake and enjoy the scenery of surrounding.
After all Monday after was good though and I deliver my passport for visa issued on it and the rest of the day we hanged out eating and drinking.