The four star China People's Palace is comprised of 19 storey building A 26 storey ... more
building B and a 4 storey skirt building The hotel is located in prosperous Fuxing Commercial Zone beside the West Changan Street Neighboring more than 10 ministries an...
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Advantages: Great people, fabulous food Disadvantages: Pollution levels high, extremes of temperature
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The food
I hear so many people come back from China complaining about the food.The trouble is that most people visit Beijing as part of a tour and therefore have to rely on their guides for food. Certain restaurants are targetted for tourists and unfortunately tend to provide banquet-style food as a mark of respect. Banquet-style food usually includes unusual dishes that don't really suit the western palate, such as chicken's feet and pig's trotters. Everyday Chinese food though is fantastic. There are many types of Chinese cuisine, probably the most famous of which is spicy Sichuan food, and all can be found in Beijing, but the most common type of restaurant is what in Chinese is called home style cooking. This includes a bit of all cuisines. I recmmend to anyone going to Beijing - dump the guide, walk into any restaurant that takes your fancy ...
sunmeilan 30.09.2005
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Advantages: some great exhibits, free, the Winter Gardens Disadvantages: Some tatty exhibits
Glasgow, the dear green place is a city I know fairly well and love. One of the main reasons I love the city is the people. They really make the place, as they are down to earth, friendly and genuine. The Glaswegians make Glasgow. Due to this I have always wanted to go to the People?sPalace, a museum dedicated to the ordinary citizens of this wonderful city, but I have never got the chance to do so until this weekend when I was up visiting some friends in Glasgow.
The People?sPalace is a social history museum dedicated to Glasgow and its population since 1750 that coincides with Glasgow?s trade in tobacco just before the first blossomings of the industrial revolution, which made Glasgow the city that it is today. I have been to a number of social history museums of varying quality (they tend to all have a mangle, washboard ...
Advantages: Lots to see and do, the great wall, Forbidden City Disadvantages: 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 Wall, the Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven, the Summer Palace and so on. From Beijing we took an overnight train to Xi?an and our main goal there was to see the Terra-Cotta Warriors but we also got to see a few other things. And from Xi?an we flew to the city of Shenzhen and from there we took the boat to Hong Kong (HK), where we stayed for about 5 days. In HK we visited Ocean Park, Victoria Peak, the Space Museum and so on.
Prelude
A couple of years back we thought about going to China and as luck would have it we ended up in Florida instead :-). Well, this time around we were more determined ...
