4 Days trip to Beijing!
Hey! After a really long time – and after almost 3 weeks from my Beijing trip I’ve decided to post something! As always China is an AMAZING country and visiting it’s political capital it’s a way to explore it from a different point of view. Beijing – I believe, it’s one of the most populated cities ever! It was nearly impossible to take the metro because it is always, at any time of day and night, full of people and also traffic jams on the streets are normal over there!
Anyways, as good turists we’ve visited the most attractive places in town and, even if they are all pretty old and maybe boring somehow, the people and the atmosphere it’s totally different than in other parts of China. The first day we went straight to the Temple of Heaven and the Summer Palace. The first one is incredibly circular, in every part! I mean, everything is circular, they built a circular temple within a circular square within a circular park! And there is a circular echoing wall which is absolutely interesting!
The Summer Palace instead is an absolutely calm and relaxing place! It has a big lake in the middle with a great park all around, full of colorful chinese-style buildings and temples. As it was April, the park was also full of flowers and green trees which painted a very nice landscape all around us!
At night, was Easter day, we went to a very cool restaurant close to our hostel and had a spectacular Peking Goose – really YUMMY!
The day after we planned to visit the Forbidden City and, finally, discover what’s behind the scenes of China’s old Emperor. I really enjoyed the visit in there because, after some hours walking around this huge architectures you really feel how boring and tiring should had been living those days! Everything looks really the same, all of the small houses are absolutely the same and in the same style. I would never been able to live for more than half a day in place like that without seeing anyone but my concubines and slaves! It’s really crazy!
And it was really amazing! Full of those strange-style chinese stuff as the small cars in the picture! Great! In the afternoon we hanged to the Lama Temple, where one of the biggest Buddha’s statue is preserved. There everything is so Indian… So strange, I don’t know why but for a while I didn’t feel that chinese temple feeling as in the other places! Was very nice.
The last day came by and then we had the most exciting part of our trip, the Great Wall tour! I was waiting for it since we got to Beijing and finally we were there, to that stunning place! I don’t know how to describe it but it’s surely one of the top attractions I’ve been to during this year in China.
Getting from station 1 to station 24 had been really tiring but it really did worth the pain! The amazing landscape and calm atmosphere all around had something really special, I still don’t know how they could built something so great! So big! It’s such a strange and awesome place!
A couple of hours on the wall tired us a lot and we had to go back, with our tour guide, to the hostel. Later we took the train back to Shanghai. This unexpected trip to Beijing was really cool! I’ve enjoyed a lot visiting the crowded city and it’s cool attractions! I should go back one day to discover the artistic side of it, I felt as I was missing something going around! Again, I should thank China for another great adventure! Thanks! 