Pros: Loaded with historic and cultural attractions Cons: Filthy, polluted, mad traffic
OK, I’ve posted an overview of China and reviewed two of our four hotels, all because the idea of writing about Beijing in less than a tome is pretty intimidating. But I’ve run out of topics to write about unless I go out of order, which I ...
Pros: Beihai Park, Forbidden City, food, Tiantan Temple, hutong, Great Wall, flea markets, Zizhuyuan Park Cons: Traffic, pollution, spitting, smoking, toilets, modern residential buildings; hutong neighborhoods are threatened with demolition
A. Overview B. By the Numbers (city facts) C. Overall Impressions i. Major ills ii. Major boons D. Personal Highlights: A Beijing Top Ten E. Other Attractions and Distractions F. Traffic (and related) Woes G. ...
Pros: Impressive architecture, art, wonderful people, and food. Cons: Pollution, general poverty, unpleasant things.
Beijing in Winter. By James Zaworski Everyone told me I was crazy to visit Beijing in the winter time. After all, it is the off season for tourists and it is so very cold. To them, I said humbug! I had the good fortune to have the knowledge and ...
Pros: The history, the sights, the Great Wall Cons: The pollution
It's hard to tell you what my first impression was of Beijing. It was dark and rainy, and I'd just gotten off of a 13-hour plane ride. We got ripped off by our cab driver, as we later discovered, and it took us almost two hours to find our hotel from ...
Pros: The city has history running out its wazoo, great shopping, cheap once you get here Cons: Dirty, smoggy, grey, smelly (at first)
As this is probably going to be quite a lengthy review I will provide an outline here so that you can quickly find any information that you may be looking for:
A. Overview of the city B. Weather C. Money Issues...
Pros: City rich in history, fascinating tourist sites and monuments; great if you love Chinese food Cons: Unbelievably polluted, very dusty, hard to find people who speak English or other languages.
Preamble At the end of April this year, I went to China to teach conversational English for nine weeks at a business college some 20-30 km from the city centre. The deal was that I would pay my airfare, while they took care of accommodation and ...
Pros: Western chain restaurants, transportation convenient and accessible, many things to see and do. Cons: Need minimal Chinese language knowledge, study maps, if not, you can be 'ripped off'.
I am an American citizen and have lived in Changping, a suburb of Beijing for 10 months now as a foreign English teacher at a private elementary school.
Beijing is a city of over 12 million people, plus 2 million migrant workers. China as a...
Pros: Fascinating sites,
Very clean city,
CITS-provided guide,
Visit to Mao Mausoleum Cons: Length of air travel from/to Eastern US,
Some tour stops too rushed
My 22 year old son and I took a J&O Tours "Modulars - Land Only" tour in Beijing from May 7 - 13 (i.e. 5 nights in Beijing). The trip was fantastic.
Neither my son nor I had any previous interest in visiting China. The idea to visit...
Pros: Lots to see and do, the great wall, Forbidden City Cons: Pollution, not the best weather in March, people spitting everywhere
A short summary
This is a travelogue about the trip that my wife, Nikki, and I took to China (Beijing, Xi’an and Hong Kong) in the period from March 15th to March 29th 2003. We first spent 7 days in Beijing and we got to see the Great...
Pros: Culture, Friendly People, Great Food Cons: None for me
My high school has three different music groups, an orchestra, a choir and a band, and each year one of those groups gets to go on tour overseas for spring break. I am in college right now, but two years ago I got to go to china with the band, and it ...
Pros: well preserved, tons of history, beautiful sites, great food Cons: smog and crazy drivers everywhere. Surprisingly few bicycles though.
I immigrated from Canton, China with my family when I was 8 years old and had very little memory of the motherland aside from incoherent flashes of my childhood. For the next 17 years I stayed in my new country, never bothering to go back home for a ...
Pros: Amazing sights and history all around you and don't miss having Peking duck once. Cons: Olympic fever has caused prices to soar and counterfeit money is everywhere.
Okay so I'm teaching in China for a year and as a bonus my employer gave me a trip to Beijing. I had no choice when I would go but when it's free you don't argue. I went to Beijing just prior to Chinese Lunar New Year and it was freezing cold. Just ...
Pros: Getting drunk Cons: Puking when you get home
Ah, Beijing. City of culture, history and general non-Americaness (is that a word? Spell check says no, but it says that about my last name, too), not to mention a halfway decent place to get trashed. I spent the fall quarter of my senior year in...
Pros: The pandas and waterfowl appeared reasonably well cared for. Cons: None of the other creatures were.
I can't say we weren't warned: our guidebook all but begged us not to visit the Beijing Zoo. But I'd dismissed it as anti-zoo prejudice on the part of Lonely Planet. Besides, how bad could it be there?
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