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Exploring Beijing’s White Cloud Temple
Sunday, 26th of November, 2017 Apart from the many well-known tourist attractions Beijing has on offer there is a surprisingly large number of remarkable sights that draw a lot less attention to themselves. Beijing Bai Yun Guan is honored as the chief temple of the Three Ancestral Temples of the Quan Zhen Taoist tradition. Originally…
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Risky Business – Construction work in China
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Summer Staples – Fresh Watermelon Juice with Mint
During the summer month, most local fruit markets all over the city offer watermelons either by the slice or as a whole. A 5 kg melon cost around 3 € and can be “squeezed” into three litres of juice. Chilled down with ice cubes and touched up with a few mint leaves its the perfect…
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Cheetah Scooters and Beijing Bellies
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The Eastern Qing Tombs and Dowager Empress Cixi’s Final Resting Place
Weekends are for daytripping – at the end of last month that motto brought us to the Eastern Qing Tombs in Zunhua, almost 130km northeast of the Jing in the province of Hebei.
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The Pride of Lions guarding Beijing’s Marco Polo Bridge
Saturday, the 29th of April 2017 One more of Beijing’s sights is down from our tourist bucket list. Last weekend we took a bus all the way out to the suburbs of Beijing and visited the Marco Polo Bridge, a historically significant place in the south-west of town. There is not much else out there,…
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Hiking along The Great Wall Mutianyu
This is a flashback to last year winter, in early January 2016, when we hiked along the Great Wall at Mutianyu.
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Backpacking Northern Vietnam Part I – Crossing the border from Hekou to Lao Cai
January the 28th, 2017 Not too long ago we had this idea of traveling from China to Vietnam, crossing the border from Hekou (Yunan, South China) to Lao Cai (North Vietnam) on foot. The easiest and most straight forward preperation we did was to buy a Lonely Planet of the destination country and do some…