mardi, août 01, 2006

Beijing trip (Day1 : Paradise Temple)

This week end, we went to Beijing (Bei = North, Jing = capital city). We chose to go there by plane, because we didn’t want to spend half of the week end in the train… At the last minute, a friend of Jacopo, a friend of Pierre (that makes her a friend of a friend’s friend), came with us, that was Tessa, an English girl, who happened to be very nice.

The first day we left Shanghai at 7am to be in Beijing something like two hours later, and just after finding the hotel, we went to some place to eat, and visit the “paradise temple” and its gardens. The temple is quite impressive, as it has been repainted recently, and though, it looks almost new.

The gardens were, for most of it, just trees put in lines with grass underneath, so they were done quite fast. A good part of those gardens is near the exit, where there are several groups of people doing Chinese music with instruments I had never heard about before…

Once out of there, we went to a sort of antiquities market, where there was a lot of ancient things, such as statues of gods, of Mao, old things from the Ming dynasty…etc…

After all that in the heat, we felt exhausted, and we came back to the hotel. We ate nearby, bought some stuff for the picnic of the following day, and slept.

posted by Quentin @ 8/01/2006 05:21:00 AM