Today’s Itinerary : Pearl Factory > Summer Palace & KunMing Lake cruise > Lunch > HuTong (Olden Beijing) > Chinese Tea Factory > JingShan Park > Subway to Olympic Park > Dinner
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- Good morning.. haha a pic with my bro
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- First visit to the Pearl Factory.. the staff demonstrating how to extract pearl
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- This is called a YOUNG PEARL – 3 years old
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- Before leaving the pearl factory, saw local people selling sweet potatoes..
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- They are awesomely sweet .. xD
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- Went to Summer Palace after that …
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- This is called a QI Lin – head of dragon, paws of Cow, Horn of Dear, and tail of lion
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- Summer Palace is where the Qi Xi stayed at last time ..
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- 5 of us .. xD
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- Pagoda on the hill… source of water supply during the olden days..
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- Caligraphy on the cement ground ..
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- One of the section in the palace where Qi Xi put the emperor in “jail”
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- resting on a 700 metres long alley..
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- twisted cookies (that’s what they called it here)
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- Cruise on KunMing Lake
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- me …
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- Bro and I
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- the other side of the lake
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- randomness … xD
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- 十七孔
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- mom and bro
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- me and aunt shereen
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- mom and dad
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- Lunch
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- The beer is so good..
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- Went to HuTong (Olden Beijing Village) after lunch ..
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- Fresh milk delivery every morning
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- One of the houses we went
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- Simple bed room of the host
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- Candid …
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- that’s the hosts
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- she is friendly .. LOL
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- Lazy huge cat
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- they can eventually speak in mandarin …
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- this is how narrow it is … Xiao yu said there are even more narrow ones..
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- 5 of us .. haha again xD
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- The daily activities.. the villagers ..
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- Mahjong…
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- After that proceed to JingShan park
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- The 3 of us walking far back .. legs are tired ..
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- Looking over the forbidden city at the peak..
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- me and aunt shereen ..
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- 5 of us ..
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- bought some chilling drinks.. tasted like Iced lemon tea
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- At Chinese Tea Factory after JingShan park
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- 苦甘茶
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- 普洱茶
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- 茶饼
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- 田七 (Good for curing ulcers)
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- Olympic Park Subway
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- Buying / Recharging your card
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- The Pass Card (like Touch N’ Go)
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- Checking your card balance
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- Glass Lift
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- 6th Floor high of look out point
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- I Jump…
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- We Jumped ..
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- Dinner ..
hey there, nice post :D
thanks yi han.. =]