I think its hard to communicate here as the Chinese people here can't understand English. I had a very hard time since my arrival until the last day there. Being cheated by a taxi drivers for 3 times, left by the roadside, super cold rain during my walk, sand storm after a decade is happening a lot of bad experience.
I stay at Beijing Prime Hotel in Wangfujing district. This hotel is a very big hotel here and quite safe. If you are woman, and travelling alone or with woman as well, you may consider to stay here. The price is CNY 3,700 for 7D 6N. The hotel is so clean. This is my first time in China. They do sell stuff in the room. From the food, to the toilettries. And also Chinese medicine. Hehehe...
So as the hotel is in Wangfujin area, i sempat la jalan-jalan kat situ. This place known as the best shopping area in Beijing. Ala-ala Oxford Street kat London.
I went to the Ming Tombs as part of a day tour to the Great Wall and it was well worth a visit. We found it useful to go with a guide who could explain the history and significance as I don't know how much you would understand otherwise. So we take a tour from our hotel. It cost us CNY 200 per person.
The place is very peaceful to walk around and you can feel the history that surrounds the sights, Going down into the tombs underground was very exciting and we thoroughly enjoyed it. Would recommend this attraction as part of a day tour. Our tour guide name is Angel. She is soooo funneh. Hehehe. And she speak broken English all the time. Dalam group from my hotel ada lebih kurang 9 pax. So naik coach untuk tour. Helok-helok matsaleh dalam couch tu. Bergetar tulang rusuk i. Hahahaha.. There is one ritual before u left The Ming Tomb. Sebelum keluar gate kena hentak kaki, sapu-sapu baju and badan and sebut " Wo Hu Lai Le". Tour guide kata supaya roh-roh jahat tak ikut kita balek. So berdekak-dekak i ngan abam mat saleh hentak-hentak kaki sambil cakap Cina.
You are not a man until you climb the Great Wall of China..
This is a very popular Chinese proverb in Chinese culture. I didn’t hear about it until I had visited the Great Wall, but it seems that climbing the Great Wall is something of a rite of passage. After I put the pictures up on Facebook, all my Chinese friends would mention my pictures and that I must be a man now that I have climbed the Great Wall. But man? Hahaha.. Im a woman. Janganlah jadi pengkid pulak nanti.
The wall itself was spectacular. The sheer magnitude of the wall is amazing. I going up by sliding car and go down by the sliding car also. I would like to take the cable car but the weather is quite bad and they stop the cable car operation. Nak panjat pakai kaki, uhhh tak mampu i. So, I only climbed a small portion of the wall, but it made me realize just how large such a project would have been. Especially such a long time ago, the wall could only have been finished with a huge amount of labor by the Chinese people. Also, you never realize how much you appreciate steps that are all the same size and even until you encounter some steps that are not. The steps up the Great Wall of China were as huge as the itself and often took (for someone short and rendang tak berbuah like me) a full extension of the leg in order to reach some of the steps.
If you ramble along Wangfujing Street in the evening during your Beijing Travel, it is advisable to visit its neighbouring Wangfujing Night Food Street. Tempat ni dekat je ngan my hotel. So jalan kaki je dalam 5 minutes. Ade sekali tu hujan plak masa nak balek. Dah la sejuk, hujan plak buat muka i kebas lari-lari anak balek hotel. Actually Wangfujing Night Food Street is formally called “Donghuamen Night Food Street, which is located on Donganmen Street linked to the west of the crossroad at the northern tip of Wangfujing Pedestrian Street.
Wangfujing Night Snack Street is often called by tourists while Donghuamen Night Snack Street by the local residents in Beijing. They both refer to the same night food market in Wangfujing area.This 100-meter long snack street is open from 6:00pm to 9:00pm every day. The night market is home to about 100 stalls selling over 100 snacks from all over China.
For adventurous dinners, it is a food paradise with such unique snacks as centipedes, lizards, deep fried crickets , starfish and a lot more available to eat on a stick. I am a muslim so that i cant take the exotic snacks and go for octopus only. Hahaha. But guys, its something that you can look forward when you're in Beijing. Im so sad to see the starfish, lizards on a stick to be eat.. Hurmm..
Also masa kat sana, berlakunya sand storm. Ribut pasir selepas berdekad tak jadi di Beijing. Memang scary. Sayangnya i dah delete pulak gambar-gambar tu. Memang kuning and tak nampak pape. So i duk rest je dalam bilik 2 hari. Rugi-rugi. Takde plak number telephone Shila Amzah, kalo tak boleh jugak lepak makan starfish dengan dia. Bosan kot.. Hahahaha..
Tapi sempat jugaklah pegi shopping-shopping kat Silk Market. Bapak besar tempat dia. Nasib baik Nudinmi ada. Dapatlah rega murah uols.. I just cakap Si Sie Ni je masa last urusniaga. Hahaha! So its time to go back home. I'm coming home.. Coming home.. tell the world that i coming home!
But i do enjoy the trips. China, wo hui lai le!
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