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Yay. It's Thursday. Morning of my third day in Beijing, 10.30am or so.
Now typing this while eating breakfast. I'm sleepy~~~
The fog seems to have cleared somewhat. Or maybe the sun just makes it less obvious? Fog is really bad here either way. And it's cold~
Not here, but outside~
Went to see the Forbidden City the day before. It's large. It's also majestic/grand/splendourous/insert-simile-for-grand-here.
It's also rather boring. It's large, but all the palaces start looking alike after a while.
... It's also good for playing hide and seek in. Not that I tried.
And then yesterday, we went to see the Great Wall. IT IS AWESOME~~~
(well, duh, it's the great wall...)
Anyway, we went with this tour group because we didn't know how to get there ourselves, and the tour gave us 1hr 40min to climb up the Great Wall and back. Not walk, climb. There are stairs, but they're so steep it's easier to climb up the stairs than walk while clinging on to the handrail. Which is also why going back down is harder than climbing up.
But anyway, I thought we didn't need that much time, since we weren't planning on climbing to the top anyway. I was wrong. I ended up wanting to climb further (we got about halfway up), but ran out of time. >.<
The rest of the tour was rather boring, and we ended up dropped off in the middle of nowhere. >,<
Actually we wanted to see the Bird's Nest Stadium, and the driver of the tour bus dropped us off "near it", but we decided it was too cold and decided to go back instead. Except we didn't know how to get back, and passerbys we asked told us that the nearest train station was 30min walk away. So we took a taxi back.
On a random note, LET THERE BE NHK~~~
Uh. Just discovered yesterday that the TV in our room has the NHK channel. Now trying to find out what time Shounen Club shows at. ^^
Meh. I'm starting to get really annoyed at the China internet. WHY CAN'T I REACH BLOGSPOT~~~
Ah, whatever. Will now return to room and check NHK.
All hail the large backspace key~
