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holyjo
holyjo Posts: 1,326
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Off to both next month on business....... any hidden delights I should look out for

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  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    In my view the Temple of Heaven, the Great Wall, the old city and the summer palace are better than the forbidden city.
    The Beijing underground is brilliant.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 33,998
    seth plum said:

    In my view the Temple of Heaven, the Great Wall, the old city and the summer palace are better than the forbidden city.
    The Beijing underground is brilliant.

    Agreed.

    Tiananmen square is an impressive space, and quite evocative if you remember 1989.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 33,998
    The Shanghai waterfront (The Bund) is full of impressive old buildings and yet if you look across the river, you see a new futuristic city, Pudong.
  • Solidgone
    Solidgone Posts: 10,207
    Don’t ask about the man carrying the white bag in Tianneneman Square.
  • palarsehater
    palarsehater Posts: 12,296
    edited August 2018
    10 million bicycles?
  • Cordoban Addick
    Cordoban Addick Posts: 5,448
    palarsehater said:

    10 million bicycles?

    A thousand flowers to bloom?

    I would be careful what you say though.
  • Stu_of_Kunming
    Stu_of_Kunming Posts: 17,117
    WanFuJing in Beijing, to try some interesting food.

    All the places seth mentioned(although I'm with Karl Pilkinton, The bit of The wall you'll probably see is shite), take a boat across kunming lake.

    Enjoy The food in beijing, in the middle of The hutongs.

    The oriental pearl tower is a must.

    When in Shanghai check out The kong fu comedy club and if you can find The time, jump on a fast train to suzhou.

    You MUST have a chongqing/chengdu hotpot one day, best.food in The world.
  • Stu_of_Kunming
    Stu_of_Kunming Posts: 17,117
    edited September 2018
    Also, no matter how friendly/sexy someone seems DO NOT join them to visit a tea house/masssage/bar if approached on the street, it's a massive scam that will cost you a lot of money. This is mostly a SH problem, rather than a BJ one.



    When are you visiting? I really, really hope it's not The first week in October.
  • holyjo
    holyjo Posts: 1,326
    Fly out Wednesday 10th - what’s wrong with the first week out of interest
  • Stu_of_Kunming
    Stu_of_Kunming Posts: 17,117
    It's golden week which is China's second largest national holiday, , everywhere will be packed, and by packed I mean you won't be able to go to certain places due to the amount people.
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  • Stu_of_Kunming
    Stu_of_Kunming Posts: 17,117
    I'll be escaping to Bali for that week, you should be OK by The 10th though.
  • Missed It
    Missed It Posts: 2,733
    Being Charlton fans, we checked out the Maglev train in Shanghai. Had a ride out to the airport and back on the fastest train in the world. 440kph feels insanely fast when you're blatting past the scenery at top speed
  • Stu_of_Kunming
    Stu_of_Kunming Posts: 17,117
    Missed It said:

    Being Charlton fans, we checked out the Maglev train in Shanghai. Had a ride out to the airport and back on the fastest train in the world. 440kph feels insanely fast when you're blatting past the scenery at top speed

    It's amazing.
  • RedChaser
    RedChaser Posts: 19,885
    holyjo said:

    Fly out Wednesday 10th - what’s wrong with the first week out of interest

    National holiday all tourist spots bombed out.
  • smudge7946
    smudge7946 Posts: 4,131
    When did we stop saying Peking?
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    55 days ago.
  • Stu_of_Kunming
    Stu_of_Kunming Posts: 17,117
    edited September 2018
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  • Stu_of_Kunming
    Stu_of_Kunming Posts: 17,117
    seth plum said:

    55 days ago.

    52.
  • SantaClaus
    SantaClaus Posts: 7,652
    smudge7946 said:

    When did we stop saying Peking?

    image

    Have 'we' stopped?
  • Solidgone
    Solidgone Posts: 10,207
    edited September 2018
    Missed It said:

    Being Charlton fans, we checked out the Maglev train in Shanghai. Had a ride out to the airport and back on the fastest train in the world. 440kph feels insanely fast when you're blatting past the scenery at top speed

    I tried to upload a video of my ride on this train but it wouldn’t upload. Anyway my ride only went up to 430kpm.
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  • stoneroses19
    stoneroses19 Posts: 7,219
    Head to Jingshan Park pagoda for the best of Forbidden City.
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,740
    Stu_of_Kunming said:

    Also, no matter how friendly/sexy someone seems DO NOT join them to visit a tea house/masssage/bar if approached on the street, it's a massive scam that will cost you a lot of money. This is mostly a SH problem, rather than a BJ one.



    When are you visiting? I really, really hope it's not The first week in October.

    Make your mind up. It 100% does seem like a BJ problem?!?

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