Beijing

Day 6-7: The Train to Ulaanbaatar

By Kazimieras May 3, 2013 Leave a comment

Friday (day 6), after 5 full days in Beijing, we had to get up bright and early to board the first leg of our Trans-Siberian journey. It was actually so surreal to be heading off on this epic cross-continent train journey that we kind of had to keep pinching ourselves to realize that it was […]

Market Day Photos (from Beijing)

By Kazimieras May 3, 2013 Leave a comment

So, this is the first of several update-posts. Enjoy our photo-narrative of our shopping day at the Pearl Market and Donghumen Night Market. On our way to the subway, transferring from our Hutong hotel to the downtown one, we stopped to take in the sights. Below the bridge that was our street, there were many […]

Last Beijing Day

By Kazimieras April 26, 2013 1 Comment

Ola! We have connection! And time! So, here’s a quick post before we head into the steppes of Mongolia! We had one last lovely morning at our hotel in the Hutong – Soluxe Courtyard Hotel. Really, after coming to the Howard Johnson’s luxury (and yeah, I really do mean luxury!) and busy downtown atmosphere, we […]

Day 4: The Summer Palace

By Kazimieras April 25, 2013 1 Comment

It’s actually day 5 as this is being written, right before we need to check out of our lovely hotel. We aren’t sure what to expect at the next one (it’s a Howard Johnson :S), and with our bright and early departure tomorrow morning, we likely won’t have time to do another post. After that […]

Day 3: The Great Wall at Jiankou

By Kazimieras April 25, 2013 4 Comments

Well we did it – and survived no less! We made it to the Great Wall of China! Admittedly what we had planned didn’t quite go as expected, but I am getting ahead of myself. Frommer’s recommended some drivers for anyone was interested in going, which we diligently recorded at the start of our trip. […]

Day 2: Beijing Photos

By Kazimieras April 24, 2013 1 Comment

We just got back from the wall and have now had dinner and desert (yummy pineapple – more to come on this amazing fruit). Here are some of the shots from yesterday’s journey. Norbert and Norman checking out some poetry, written by an emperor in honor of Confucius. Alicia near one of the pavilions that […]

Day One: Beijing

By Kazimieras April 22, 2013 3 Comments

Alicia with our Mascots Norbert and Norman (also known as NNN) once we landed after our flight. Us at the Beijing Airport. Let me start by saying I (Alicia) was getting pretty stressed out on the flight here about the likely huge wave of culture shock I was going to experience by heading to a […]

The Great Wall

By Kazimieras April 5, 2013 Leave a comment

Given the timing of this post I want to clarify something. And that is – no – this is not a post about the Ice Wall in Game of Thrones. Now with that out of the way… When we started planning and knew we had a few days in Beijing the obvious question came up – do we […]

So many things crossed off the list!

By alicia1982 March 1, 2013 Leave a comment

Awesome week!!! We got a lot checked off the prep list: Mongolian visas acquired! Whoot Derek! Hotel in Beijing booked (Soluxe Sunshine Courtyard Hotel) Hotel in Vilnius booked (Dvaras Hotel) Invite to China asked for and received Research on booking for train from St Petersburg to Vilnius started On the issue of the last item, […]