We had to get up early because we decided to take a tour to the burial grounds of the emperors and with the main event the Great Wall total price 300 yuan each. As a bonus we would visit a Jade Factory and a Silk Factory although these two seemed more like additional forced sponsored visits. In the hope we would buy some things. Not sure what the deal here was, maybe a sponsor deal for the trip or something. They were kind enough to show us how things were made and how to tell the real and the fake jade apart. This did make it interesting enough to not smell the commercial aspect right away. As for the burial grounds I personally thought it did not show many interesting things. What I can say is that the scenery was beautiful and the guide was very nice explaining all the different artifacts found. The group that we were with were all nice people which was a big plus. I talked for a long time to a woman from Australia about her travelings and her country. It was quite a nice chat and I got some insight of life in Australia. (future visit?)
After the burials grounds we headed to the main even of the tour The Great Wall!
We took a cart ride up to the mountain. I'm not to sorrow to walk, but the tour only had limited amount of time so the suggestion was made to take the cart. So we did, this turned out to be quite nice actually. Once on top, we climbed the wall. The scenery is breath taking! The hills, the wall and seeing it endlessly going on, it is truly amazing. On the wall there are many tourist, but with some good timing you can take some incredible picture like the one I show here.
I had a beautiful experience here and will remember this sight for the rest of my life. I would recommend anyone that is willing to travel to Beijing to have a look. It's a must! Once down again we bought some T-shirts saying "I climbed the Great wall". Stefan bought his first for 40 yuan, after that I bought mine for 20 Yuan and Frank later on even got it down to 10, but already bought one with me for 20. We got some great insight in the prices on tourist items.
At the end of the tour we went back to the hotel, we seen this advertisement on a free map of Beijing that was given by the hotel. It was an advertisement for the Chinese Hooters. I explained to Frank and Stefan the concept of Hooters in the US and I suggested we should go and check out them Chinese Hooters. Without any objection we got in another taxi and headed towards hooters.
At this point I should point out that the taxi cost about 2 Yuan per km which is about 0,23 euro cents per km. So it's quite a nice alternative if your not familiar with the bus route. At Hooters we had a girl which went by the name of Emma serving us food, she brought a friend to have a chat with us. Suggested we should go to some club nearby and wait for them there after work. We tried to find the club to check it out, but failed. Maybe for the better because we had to leave the hotel at 05:00 the next morning to take a plain to the city of Xi'an. The city were we will have our internship for 100 working days. Although we didn't have enough time to explore the night life of Beijing, we visited a lot culture things and I think we will all remember the amazing scenery and bad traffic, haha. Good bye Beijing, see you in 5 months!
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