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This is a special post dedicated to our travel companions, even if for a few hours or a few days, that made our experience in China that much more worth it 🙂 . Thanks guys for everything you gave us and the laughs we shared together 🙂 . This post will be an introduction to […]
The Hanging Temple, known also as Xuankong Temple, near Datong, was one of the definite stops we’d planned for our initial route. After a few hiccups in mine (Ruth’s) super ambitious plan, this was one of the places we managed to visit. More like a train trip to Datong, an adventure… Leaving Beijing for Datong was an […]
We hadn’t originally planned to visit these grottoes – Yungang Grottoes – not because they weren’t interesting, but because we’d initially planned to see the grottoes in Luoyang: the Longmen Grottoes. However, by booking our trip to go to the Hanging Temple, we unintentionally arrived at the caves’ entrance … It seemed wrong to not make […]
Initially, the Forbidden City was one of the main things we wanted to see in Beijing. The problem was that, because of various circumstances, we very nearly weren’t able to visit it. The first time we were nearby, we were visiting Beihai Park. The second time we visited the Forbidden City was before we were […]
Another great day in the Chinese capital with the Summer Palace of Beijing as one of our planned visits. We visited the Forbidden City in the morning and, as we’d managed to be well organized (for once! 😀 😀 ), we took the metro to Beigongmen (4 Line) to visit the Summer Palace’s gardens. The […]
Imperial Ancestral Temple and Tiananmen Square were the targets that day… but not the initial targets. We’d reserved this day exclusively for visiting the Forbidden City, but what we didn’t know is that things wouldn’t go exactly as we’d planned. There was an unearthly downpour throughout the entire night prior to our visit. From our […]
After several very hot days, being back in the hot, humid and polluted city of Beijing wasn’t the best, but we were there anyway and were looking forward to seeing the places we’d missed out on during our first visit, such as the Temple of Heaven. We decided to walk around the Temple of Heaven […]
A new day and a new attitude. After an awful previous day health wise, I woke up with more energy and we went out to visit the monasteries of Small Potala Palace and Panchen Lama Temple. They are two of the Eight Outer Temples that surround the Mountain Resort area. Small Potala Palace, a replica […]
After having been to the Great Wall of China, we hit the road again to visit some of the other places that Ruth had on her list of must-sees (almost all of them were must-sees! 😀 😀 ), such as Chengde Summer Palace and the Mountain Resort, and we made our way to Chengde in […]