Many foreign and domestic travelers are interested in an organized Beijing Bike Tour or independent Beijing cycle trips. Bicycles have the advantages of low cost and energy efficiency. It is also healthy, and easier and quicker to shuttle through Beijing’s hutongs. For independent cyclists, they find quite diffucult to ride in Beijing mainly due to the lack…
The city of London is rife with the red double-decker buses, one of the local cultural tradition of London. No wonder on the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games 2008 in Beijing a London double-decker bus became the main actor accompanied by the famous football David Beckhamon on the stage ushering the coming 2012 Olympic Games to be held in…
Today is Feb 02, 2011, one day before the Chinese new year 2011 starts. As usual, this morning I pass over the flyover at 8:00am on my way to office since I’m on duty today. I’m not surprised to find the traffic below is empty due to most of the local residents stay at…
This year’s Spring Festival travel season ( Chunyun ) starts from Jan 19, 2011, 15 days before the Chinese lunar new year’s day (Feb 03, 2011), and ends on Feb 27, totalling 40 days. The annual srping festival witnesses the largest annual human migration in the world! Most Chinese people are returning home for family reunion during Chinese new…
After their visit of Forbidden City and exit from its north gate, most of the visitors want to continue their day trips to other attractions or destinations in Beijing like Jinshan Park ( just opposite the north gate of Forbiden City), Wangfujing Street, Beijing Zoo, Summer Palace, Fragrance Hill, Temple of Heaven, Badaling Great Wall, Beijing Railway Station,…
If you are going to visit Beijing, you are advised to include Xian on your travel agenda. It takes either approxi 11 hours by express overnight train or one and half hours by flight from Beijing to Xian, or vice versa. If you want to enjoy an exotic experience of taking a train travel, going…
For foreign tourists, even domestic travelers, booking train tickets is a headache! There is no official online train ticket booking website for the individual market at the time of the writing. Though there are some train ticket booking travel websites available, they are unable to allow simultaneous online booking. And very often there is little possibilty of obtaining…
Today one of my former college mates surnamed Tian gave me a call. He says that he is in Beijing accompanying his daughter learning Chinese. He continues to say that everyday he has to escort her daughter to the language institution since her daughter doesn’t know how to cross the streets in Beijing! Mr….