We made it back to Beijing and found a hostel for half the price we found the first time we were in Beijing, and in a way cool location a couple blocks from the Forbidden City and on a really cute outdoor market street. We spent one night there using our day to visit another cool temple and the Pearl Market which offered tons of knock off items such as an iphone for around $130 but it was so obviously not real. Rusty actually enjoyed shopping! The bargaining was really fun and hilarious, but we only bought a few cheap luggage locks and retractable earphones.
We caught a train that evening to Pingyao, which may likely be one of our favorite cities we've ever visited. It is so adorable being surrounded by a city wall with all the traditional architecture preserved. It may even be more interesting than Tallin, Estonia. We'll be heading to Xi'an to see the Terracotta warriors in a couple days (for a more historical / hysterical account of the warriors, see Mummy 3, the movie). After Xi'an we plan to head toward Tibet on the highest train ever built (ask Kelsi's dad for interesting engineering details).
Pictures pending more time (they take a really long time to transfer from camera - esp. on the super slow internet we've been running into).
We caught a train that evening to Pingyao, which may likely be one of our favorite cities we've ever visited. It is so adorable being surrounded by a city wall with all the traditional architecture preserved. It may even be more interesting than Tallin, Estonia. We'll be heading to Xi'an to see the Terracotta warriors in a couple days (for a more historical / hysterical account of the warriors, see Mummy 3, the movie). After Xi'an we plan to head toward Tibet on the highest train ever built (ask Kelsi's dad for interesting engineering details).
Pictures pending more time (they take a really long time to transfer from camera - esp. on the super slow internet we've been running into).
2 comments:
Your Still Alive! Your last post had me a little worried. I hope your adventure continues to delight and inspire you.
What, no bargain music or DVDs. I'm appalled. Sweet deals though. Excited to see all your bargain deals! You should get one of the iphones and ebay that sucker! Keep posting....love you both
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