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Articles tagged with: Beijing 2008

The Forbidden City (故宫)

August 29, 2008 – 7:43 am | 10 Comments

Located right behind Tianan­men Square, the For­bid­den City was the Chi­nese impe­r­ial palace of the Ming and the Qing dynas­ties (the last two ones).

The Great Wall (万里长城)

August 27, 2008 – 11:48 am | 16 Comments

What’s the best activ­ity if it’s 45C and you slept only 6 hours the pre­vi­ous night because the hos­tel was noisy? Climb­ing the Great Wall, of course!

The Olympic Green (奥林匹克公园)

August 26, 2008 – 8:49 am | 10 Comments

Last Sat­ur­day, we finally got the chance to visit the Olympic Green. The olympic venues were scat­tered across the city, but the main ones were held at the National Sta­dium, the famous Bird Nest, and at the Watercube.

The Temple Of Heaven (天坛)

August 25, 2008 – 11:21 am | 4 Comments

The Tem­ple of Heaven is one of Beijing’s icon.

Lama Temple (雍和宫)

August 23, 2008 – 12:35 pm | 11 Comments

Lama Tem­ple is one of Beijing’s finest temple.

Wangfujing (王府井)

August 21, 2008 – 12:23 pm | 16 Comments

One of the first place I really wanted to come back to was Wang­fu­jing, a huge street mar­ket. I had loved the atmos­phere when I was study­ing in Bei­jing and I was glad to see it didn’t changed much.

Monday In Finland

August 20, 2008 – 11:23 am | 13 Comments

The only prob­lem with Fin­land is… Finnish. It doesn’t look like any lan­guage I know and it really didn’t make any sense to me. Way too many “ö” and “ë” if you ask me. But for­tu­nately, most peo­ple spoke great Eng­lish so we were able to get around with­out too much trouble.

Gone To Beijing!

August 16, 2008 – 11:19 pm | 16 Comments

I haven’t packed any­thing yet, I have just found out I have a hole in my san­dals and I can’t find my tweezer but every­thing is under con­trol. E-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g. But my pack­ing, that is.