So after meeting the Gulf for Good group at Dubai airport (well, most of them, 4 people met us in Beijing!) we travelled with Qatar airways, via Doha, to Beijing and met our guide for the next week, Joe.
The centre of Beijing is around an hours drive from the airport and the traffic was crazy. We were told that there are 22million people who live in Beijing and that there are so many vehicles that there are restrictions on which days of the week you can drive depending on the last number of your car plate, odd, even etc.
We were taken to the Jade Garden Hotel which was really nice and had the chance to walk around the night markets. This was to be the only place in China where I saw scorpions on sale to eat, as well as other random things such as spiders, star fish, seahorses, snakes and sheeps penis'....yes really! After only 3 hours in China a man had already shouted "Testicles" at me...in reference to what was in front of my face on a skewer!!!!
Back to the hotel and there were cheap massages to be had, with an early night in mind, I decided on a foot massage. The room was communal which I didn't mind, but thought it utterly hilarious when Dave from our group opted for a back massage. The couch he was lying on squeaked and whist he had his head in the hole, the rest of us were given a full view of the stocking tops and underwear of his masseuse who had on the most inappropriately short skirt. Nether the less it was an early night as I left the others to it and headed to bed.
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| Crazy Beijing Traffic! |
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| The Jade Garden Hotel - Beijing |
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| Starfish and Scorpions |
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| seahorses, snakes and other gross things to eat..... |
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