This Year I decided that I wanted to travel China but didn’t want it to cost the earth, so I trawled the internet looking for the cheapest flights. This took a lot of time and effort until I found this incredible website, which makes traveling around China so easy! Whether yo are traveling alone or on a big group China Tours will help you to find the best flights and the cheapest accommodation, if your looking for a great deal I would recommend logging on to china travel.
I started my journey by flying out to Beijing, I then took the most amazing 4 day tour with CYTS they took me on a guided tour of all the best places and they taught me the history and gave me great local knowledge of Beijing. When we landed a taxi transfer was waiting to take us straight to our hotel called the Swiss which is one of the best hotels i’ve ever been to. After a quick shower we went for a delicious Chinese banquets in one of the many restaurant they have inside the hotel we then turned in for the night as we new the next day was going to be packed full of sight seeing.
The day day was amazing we got up around 11.00 and had a international breakfast there was food from every part of the world I had sausages bacon and egg they even had real English baked beans and tea! After lunch we headed to the spa and had the works: Massage,pedicure,manicure,facial it was so relaxing just what I needed!
Tianaman Square
Just when I thought things couldn’t get any better day 2 came around and we were taken to the Forbidden city and Tianaman Square they were both phenomenal and much bigger than I imagined them to be! Both of the destinations were full of history and ancient chinese culture I spent a good 6 hrs looking round both of them. It was really helpful to have a Chinese tour guide to show us round and tell us information, about what all the buildings and status were they are also very big so easy to get lost in! It was a great day but I was glad to get back to the hotel and have a rest!
Silk street
The next day our tour guide took us to the silk market, they have everything you could possible want there: ladies and men’s clothing,electrical goods, shoes, chinese artwork and food! A tip for the market is to not take the first price you must barter, if they say 100 they almost certainly will go down over half the price. All of the stuff in the market is really good quality and the people at the market are very friendly although sometimes things can get a bit fraught during the price war, but just stick with it or if in doubt walk away they will most probably chase after you and give you the price you want.We spent about 5hrs there I could have stayed much longer.
The market
I was really sad to leave Beijing but excited to see the rest of china, I had a flight to Xian early the next day hopefully one day I will come back so I can explore Beijing some more! Look out for my next blog about the mesmerizing Xian.
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