So we have spent 2 days in Beijing now, well we arrived at 2.30 p.m. yesterday so almost 2 days. The train ride here was much better than the last one, primary because it wasn't so long only 30 hours. The train was much better as well it looked brand new so that was good the only downside was that we couldn't open the window so we had to take pictures through the glass. The landscape was beautiful with mountains and rice fields. The last couple of hours we went trough tunnel after tunnel and every time we came out on the tunnel the landscape was fantastic and we even got to see the Great Wall.
When we arrived at the train station we decided to walk to the hostel which took about 30 minutes so that wasn't to bad. But since we carried our big backpacks people saw that we just arrived and one guy just came up and sad "welcome to China" and he followed us for the next 10 minutes speaking English. And when we where almost at the hostel another guy came up and asked where we where from so we sad Sweden and he just "ooh and worked in Stockholm for sic months" and we talked to him for a while. Everybody is so friendly here and if they can speak English they love to speak it with a foreigner. So we got a really got first impression of Beijing with the people and the traffic is much more organised here than in Russian and Mongolia.
Today we have been walking for at least 6 hours, we spent the first 5 hours of the day shopping at Xidan one of the biggest shopping streets in Beijing. And when we got back to the hostel we met Pablo a Spanish guy we met at the hostel in Ulaanbaatar. So he joined us when we went out looking for something to eat. We ate at a market where they sell grilled food on sticks (pictures are coming) and they had everything, chicken, beef, lam, fruit, sea food, starfish and even different bugs and scorpions. We bought beef, lamp and some grilled corn and left the bugs for someone else. And we also walked to the biggest square in the world (that's what our guidebook told us) and we also saw one of the old city gates. After that we found a shopping street but I guess the Chinese didn't think it looked good enough before so they have rebuilt all the facades of the building and rebuilt them, it look really fake. But we guessed they want it too look new and that it was a thing they did for the Olympics even thou there where no stores get.
When we arrived at the train station we decided to walk to the hostel which took about 30 minutes so that wasn't to bad. But since we carried our big backpacks people saw that we just arrived and one guy just came up and sad "welcome to China" and he followed us for the next 10 minutes speaking English. And when we where almost at the hostel another guy came up and asked where we where from so we sad Sweden and he just "ooh and worked in Stockholm for sic months" and we talked to him for a while. Everybody is so friendly here and if they can speak English they love to speak it with a foreigner. So we got a really got first impression of Beijing with the people and the traffic is much more organised here than in Russian and Mongolia.
Today we have been walking for at least 6 hours, we spent the first 5 hours of the day shopping at Xidan one of the biggest shopping streets in Beijing. And when we got back to the hostel we met Pablo a Spanish guy we met at the hostel in Ulaanbaatar. So he joined us when we went out looking for something to eat. We ate at a market where they sell grilled food on sticks (pictures are coming) and they had everything, chicken, beef, lam, fruit, sea food, starfish and even different bugs and scorpions. We bought beef, lamp and some grilled corn and left the bugs for someone else. And we also walked to the biggest square in the world (that's what our guidebook told us) and we also saw one of the old city gates. After that we found a shopping street but I guess the Chinese didn't think it looked good enough before so they have rebuilt all the facades of the building and rebuilt them, it look really fake. But we guessed they want it too look new and that it was a thing they did for the Olympics even thou there where no stores get.
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