The train arrived in Beijing on the 10 o’clock, and then a taxi to the Hotel. We reserve the He Dong Hotel. During the Olympic Games in Beijing hotels had tripled the price, so we resort to a simple hotel. Its price, € 40 per room per night. In the corridors of the hotel had signs Real Madrid players (something quite curious). It was simple, but very clean, spacious and comfortable. The entry was not a great avenue, as usual, but had to be accessed by an alley, which at no time had a sense of insecurity.
Barring that, an exceptional hotel, mainly because they had hired a couple of female students of English (advantaged) that is bursting to help in anything. They indicated that combination we have took the Chinese bus to visit the Great Wall, which was the best opera theater in Beijing, or how to get to the Olympic venues.
Taxis in Beijing were worth just over € 2 per ride, but the distances are enormous. In Beijing we visited the walls (I think it is the bus 109 which goes up there for 10 & eur , And entrance costs € 4 per person.
The Great Wall of China is impressive. In some passages is very steep, and you walk and walk until tired. But is full of Chinese, and many called for posaras to make a picture your child with you. Other sites of interest include Tiananmen Square (they say it still is full of undercover cops), the Forbidden City (entrance 6 € per person), the Palace of Heaven (3.5 € per person) and the Temple of the Lamas ( 2.5 € per person).
I can say little that is not in any tourist guide, but of course this is all to visit. The Chinese opera is curious. We went to Teatro Huguang (72 € for 4 of the cheap tickets). The environment is a refurbished old theater, where there are tables where they serve you tea and pastries while watching the performance. The music is deafening and very far from our musical canon. But the color, the acrobatics of the characters on the small stage, their faces painted (the monkey king, emperor & helli and in general the atmosphere is worth seeing.
Ate in Beijing sometime in the Wal-Mart stores that were near the Hotel, and on whose top floor had a lot of places where limpísimos served wrapped in plastic dishes and Western aspect.
One day we come to lunch at 16:00 hrs and all staff were sleeping on the tables as children in day care (their working hours are very long and lose a lot of time displaced from their homes in the suburbs to downtown) . They got up to serve the poor.
In Beijing there to eat Peking duck Li Quin Roast Duck Restaurant. We could not go by that had a lot of tail. I have said little shopping. Under the suggestive name of Silk Market in Beijing is a huge building, type English court, with many small shops selling imitation watches, luggage, more or less typical souvenirs, papyrus, etc … But beware, sometimes you Timan (we had to return by a custom clock was broken: we changed it without problems). But the souvenirs are typical and not too pretty. There is a great country for purchases.
In the Metro Museum of Technology is also a market interesting, play games very cheaply. It seems that during the Olympics, the imitation clothes shops had been eradicated. If you approached according to areas, people had approached you and took you home individuals, where they taught you branded clothing at derisory prices. Not worth, however, much that was worth something outdated models. However, this enabled us to see the houses of the Chinese “on foot”, a single room with a bed, the dining table and TV (always with winning medals or Chinese soap operas), and very old dirty kitchens, staircases narrow and dark. We bought a couple of shirts and a pair of North Face jackets for 42 € all, with whom we spent a cold this winter you can not see. Small suitcases for € 15. Tiger Slippers for 12 €, scrolls, jade, imitation Breitling watches for 20 €
We returned to Shanghai by train, where we did the last shopping, the last places we visited and we made our farewell dinner at Simply Thai, to get back in the 17th back to Barcelona. I left a lot to explain. And although the trip was beautiful, I wanted it more responsive to daily practical sense, to help other travelers to face a country that seems so difficult and is not. Surely not a travel guide was not as efficient, and let me see something. But other things I saw and lived it could not have a guide. The trip took us to the four little less than 5,000 € (Internacinal and domestic flights, meals, hotels, tickets, souvenirs, everything), lasted 17 days and traveled 6,000 km . All information was the Internet and frankly, it was easy.
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