Beijing Airport Terminal Is World’s Biggest Building
I recently read about the new Terminal 3 at Beijing International Airport. It sounds mightily impressive. Here are a few quotes from the article: at the size of 170 soccer fields, qualifies as the...
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Hua Shan (Mount Hua)
Hua Shan, or Mount Hua as it is known in English, is absolutely breathtaking. That’s a phrase that is often overused, but there is no doubt that it applies to Hua Shan. photos by Darren On The...
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Beijing Silk Street Market
Image Source: P1050094.JPG by jcortellLicense This post started off a a Flickr Pick, but was promoted to the main area of the blog, as the Silk Street Market just proved to be too important. The Silk...
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Beijing Metro (Subway)
The Beijing Metro has a name for being efficient and cheap, but my last experience with it was one of overcrowding and frustration. One of our friends explained that the government had recently dropped...
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Summer Palace In Beijing
The Summer Palace (Yihe Yuan) is a must visit tourist destination in Beijing. It’s huge (290 hectares or 716 acres) and lies next to the Kunming Lake. My favourite part is the Marble Boat (Shi Fang)....
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Soldiers Near Forbidden City
These are the soldiers who patrol the area between Tiananmen (the gate, not the square) and the Forbidden City. photos by unfoldedorigami The photo of the guards practising their gongfu (kungfu)...
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Beijing Railway Station At Night
Magnifique, lizixiang, 璀璨！ posted a couple of superb photos of the Beijing Railway Station (Beijing Zhan) at night: It looks very impressive at night time. The building is lit superbly, but that’s not...
View ArticleWuhan Tianhe Airport Hotel
A little over a year ago, I passed through Wuhan Airport, on the way to somewhere else, spending the night there at the Wuhan TianHe Airport Hotel. I wrote copious notes at the time and it’s about time...
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Sleeping At Wuhan Airport
livepine posted a photo on Flickr of someone sleeping on the chairs at Wuhan Airport: This photo was of particular interest to me, because I’d just finished writing about my experiences at Wuhan...
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