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Beijing
I visited the city in 2008 during the Paralympic Games that were held in August and September.
I did not expect a lot from Beijing. Yet this metropolis of 14 million inhabitants, founded in the first millennium BC, has the ability to be surprised. Not only for its monuments but also for its people. Not only Tiananmen (a square that is admired by all its dimensions in turn require the presence of three different subway stops), the Temple of Heaven, the Summer Palace and the Forbidden City. Above all the Hutang (small low houses around the Forbidden City), the people who come out in the morning at home with his sword to gymnastics, or older people who bring their birds in cages sing together in the square, or the pharmacies with their spices and discoveries of Chinese medicine by miracle cures (and sometimes the prices unrealistic).
To understand the city, I am grateful to "Dictionary Italian-Beijing", which has not been present a tour guide, but a dive in the city making me discover that people still spinning with drinking bottles of in the memory of when, until 1970 / 80 the city had no the drains making me discover the kitchen to avoid not to have unpleasant side effects, which made ​​me discover how to move among the locals. Beijing is a city that has given me a lot and that is worth a visit. Worth getting up at 5 am to see people in parks or in Tiananmen Square to tai-chi, worth the wait one of the many girls who are looking for a tourist to talk English (and who will try to take you to a tea room - or another), it's worth haggle before a seller of ravioli in the morning for breakfast, it's worth going to the night market to eat kebabs cockroaches or other unthinkable things, it is worth haggling with taxi drivers (note - the number next to the window indicates how many kilometers raimimbi want to then focus on odometer).
Beijing thus has its own charm. But you must find it.
I did not expect a lot from Beijing. Yet this metropolis of 14 million inhabitants, founded in the first millennium BC, has the ability to be surprised. Not only for its monuments but also for its people. Not only Tiananmen (a square that is admired by all its dimensions in turn require the presence of three different subway stops), the Temple of Heaven, the Summer Palace and the Forbidden City. Above all the Hutang (small low houses around the Forbidden City), the people who come out in the morning at home with his sword to gymnastics, or older people who bring their birds in cages sing together in the square, or the pharmacies with their spices and discoveries of Chinese medicine by miracle cures (and sometimes the prices unrealistic).
To understand the city, I am grateful to "Dictionary Italian-Beijing", which has not been present a tour guide, but a dive in the city making me discover that people still spinning with drinking bottles of in the memory of when, until 1970 / 80 the city had no the drains making me discover the kitchen to avoid not to have unpleasant side effects, which made ​​me discover how to move among the locals. Beijing is a city that has given me a lot and that is worth a visit. Worth getting up at 5 am to see people in parks or in Tiananmen Square to tai-chi, worth the wait one of the many girls who are looking for a tourist to talk English (and who will try to take you to a tea room - or another), it's worth haggle before a seller of ravioli in the morning for breakfast, it's worth going to the night market to eat kebabs cockroaches or other unthinkable things, it is worth haggling with taxi drivers (note - the number next to the window indicates how many kilometers raimimbi want to then focus on odometer).
Beijing thus has its own charm. But you must find it.
