Beijing Travel Stories

Eye Love Shopping - Beijing, China Can you see yourself getting excited about shopping for prescription glasses? Lynne Reynolds found a market that did just that.	A Walk on the Wild Side in China - Beijing, Jinan, Suzhou, Shanghai - China Lucas Aykroyd discovers different cultural norms in driving habits, cuisine, and marketplace negotiations while traveling through China.

Communist Secrets - Beijing, China Longer than the Great Wall of China. Secret, underground access to key sites around Beijing. Room to house 300,000 people. The Beijing Underground City. What you don't know about the communists ca	Buddhist Temples and Grotesque Rocks: My Tour of China - China Christine Chan tou
Reading Material - Beijing, China For sixty bucks an hour, Jason Barbacovi will do a lot of things - even if it means reading from a dictionary.	Failing to Impress - Beijing, China Phillip Donnelly had expected something equivalent to Red Square in Moscow, where a sense of history seems to seep from every cobblestone, but Tiananmen was just an enormous slab of concrete, like an
Traffic Dodging at the Beijing Olympics 2008 - Beijing, China For the 2008 Olympic visitors who venture on foot	What a Wild Wall - Beijing, China While dodging the occasional hustler, Kevin O'Shea
A Communist Parade - Beijing, China Nick Dao postponed his trip for one month to see C	Bamboozled in Beijing - Beijing, China Kevin O'Shea thought himself fairly savvy, but his

Becoming World Citizens - Beijing, Shanghai, China After 11 days in the Middle Kingdom, Bill Mohan an	A Stranger in a Strange Territory - Beijing, China Like a child offered promises of acrobats and ice
The Great Wall and The Great Zoo - Beijing, China Nick Dao finds himself being mistaken for a Chines	Leo's Story - Beijing, China In Beijing, Jason Jones met a young man determined
Searching for Something #21: Homeward Bound - Beijing and Xi'an, China Beijing and Xi'an are the last stops before Tutti and Josh head back to San Francisco, and no, they aren't going to stay to linger over the Terracotta Army.	The Thermal Trip #5: Beijing to Xian - Beijing to Xian, China Melanie hit a lot of the tourist highlights in both Beijing and Xian, but also found some out of the way places along the way that she had all to herself.
The Thermal Trip #3: The Trans-Siberia Journey - Moscow to Beijing via Mongolia Melanie found six days of nothing to do on the train except watch the world go past is a luxury she would recommend to everyone.	The Year of Living Differently #7: From Beijing with Love - Beijing, China Beijing turned out quite wonderful for Trisha, largely due to the people she met in her hostel. The same cannot be said, however, for the crooks who tried to smuggle her across the border into Mongoli

Good Morning, Beijing - China The best welcome to China Kelly Sobczak could've r	Business or Pleasure? - Beijing & Yentai, China From backpacker to buyer, Justin Pushman gets hims