our trip to beijing was adventurous.
We took a taxi to the bus station, from there we took the bus to Beijing Downtown.
Just arrived and people wanted to cheat on us with taxi fare.
I could somehow bargain and it brought us close to our Hostel.
We were very exhausted and we first needed a loo, a beer and some food. From the nice terrace from the hostel (peking youth hostel) we could already see many many people. After we had something in our tummy we started walking around the pedestrian street. Many streetshops, foodshops and little bars were just around our hostels.
We had this wonderful idea start walking towards the famous Stadium, where the Olympia 2008 was hold (picture 1) . it was very far…
On the map beijing looks very small, but i can insure its HUUGEE!! anyway, in the evening we had a nice at the Ghost Street (picture 2) people were sitting outside in order to wait until they have a seat in the good restaurants. We chose one, where you don’t have to wait and ordered with our best Chinese.
2nd Day in Beijing was not as we have expected it to be. We took the the subway to the “forbidden city” you cannot imagine how many people were there.
they told us we could wait at least 3 hours to get inside. We also tried to get to the Tiananmen Square… no chance – too much people. Waiting is not our best habit so we continued walking to the “shopping” street where we found a burger to eat.
Hostel Recommendation: Peking International Youth Hostel
