After safely arriving in Beijing we went straight to the Temple-side hostel we were supposed to stay at. A very nice place to stay at, although somewhat expensive - 300 monopolies for a double.
In the morning we knew absolutely nothing of our visiting program, and were improvising. An idea (not sure whose) came up - a bike tour in Pekin (Beijing). WTF?! Really? Yeah, really. And we rode for roughly 9-10 hours that day. We saw much - it was a REAL blast!
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| Getting the guns up and ready!! Rusty bike... and the lady actually pumping the tires.. Mauahahah... |
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| Lady got tired... Alex is pumping now... :-) |
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| Finally we departed and saw soooo many places and had access to sooo many things!! Tian yanmen square. |
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| Where is Alex? |
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| Waiting for the lights in the middle of the wide street...The lights there change every 3 minutes or something like this. |
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| Beijing Opera... A supposedly famous... |
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| Crazy ride continues. |
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| Checking out the map... BTW, behind me is the south entrance to the forbidden city. |
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| The map that we were checking out... As you can see the plan was drawn by hand... :-) but we copied it to the map from a tour guide. The latter was too heavy to take up. |
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| Alex asking for some directions... :-) Nice pose mister EilekZ!!! |
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| The northern part of the Forbidden City. |
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| Some building... Forgot... |
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| This Dagoba was ERECTED (ahahah this is how they wrote) 300 years ago or something like this... anyhow a big white di...k, oops, in the middle of Beijing. |
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| King Atha, well, we have no picture of Alex sitting on a throne as he doesn't have such an ambition. :-) If you look attentively, I am about to take off, because you have to pay to be able to take a picture with that hat and sit on this throne... But we didn't, and we are about to fly. :-) |
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| Nice lotus garden was there as well. |
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| Tambour tower. |
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| Tour de France |
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| Not Spain... Still China. 30% of the religious people in China are Christians... |
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| Towards the end of the day, Alex's bike couldn't bear him any more and his back tired exploded... Well, he had noticed that there was something wrong 2 minutes before it exploded. We went inside a living block and found a bike-repairer, who quickly fixed our bike for only 5 euros. He put us a completely new tire! Very nice job little fella! |
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| Happy Alex, with his new tires! |
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| Temple of Heaven. |
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| Alex... to the right. |
And so the first day at Beijing was over... or was it not?
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