Tuesday, September 21, 2004

GREAT WALL



My wish became true... someday I was wishing walk on the Great Wall and see the amazing landscape from there.

Beijing was full of surprises... when I was in the Forbidden City, I met a Brazilian tour group and we spend all the walk through the temples together. Acrobats Theater presented crazy people doing crazy things... Beautiful is the Temple of Heaven, dragons are designed by flowers and monuments architecture is unique.
In one of the entrances, some old Chineses were doing Tai chi chuan and others dancing very happy... one Chinese was holding a tree and I'm sure he got a wonder energy from it.
I couldn't forget the famous Beijing Roast Duck restaurant in Wangfujing, where you get a full duck and a show of tea preparation.

I have to alert people with sensitive stomach... in Beijing, most of time I was food poisoned... and if you ask the taxi driver to stop as you feel sick, he will only open the window for you!
English? no, nobody speaks English... even in the international hotel, few Chinese speak English and you have hard time before you get someone to undertand you.