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Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Tour of the three cities


July is upon us, while fire works is about to flare, west side won again. If you forgot the meaning of this holiday, just be thankful that you only had to work 4 days this week, which left you with 3 days of free times

You can spend this lazy day with an orgy of food or orgy of sex, either way will give you something to look forward to. LOL.

Speaking of July that means I should start reinforcing the fort again for another waves of alien’s invasion. Perhaps it may be a good time to give you aliens some pointer for your fall visits to this part of my world.

First stop Beijing:

1.       The first tips to travel to ASIA. No matter how tire you are, how relax you want to be, or you love to take to the air travel, or the seating arrangement is so comfortable in the first class, without the babies crying of course. Rule number one. Do not drink like a fish just because it is free. It is not worth it. Rule number two. Do not go to sleep, just watch three damn movies, and go to bathroom twice, eat all your favorite veggies and you will be here without jet legs for days to come.
2.       Once you arrive, do not get over anxious, please time yourself for all the activities you had plan. Take time out to smell the tea, and remember even with an escort, or guide, you will get lost and time wasted.
3.       Your must see destination, the Forbidden City is huge, and it will take you most of the day to explore there if you really wanted to experience it, go a little further to the less visited court yards. Don’t expect tranquility, the emperor had left town. The tour guide with the flag is left in charge and I meant they would be leading the charges, with the loud speaker in their hand.
4.       After you are done, I suggest you walk out of the Gate of the heavenly peace into the Tiananmen Square to take some pictures. Until you set foot there, you never feel the power of the square that can be overwhelming.
5.       The people’s congress is a site to see, as well as the crops of Mao, the mausoleum, if you are into cold fresh. There are the Monument to the people’s heroes and a total of ten other buildings. Check it out.
6.       The temple of heaven is best to visit in the morning, if you can bid the early invasion of the group tour, you will feel how beautiful of the place is. Walk the full length of the park, where the emperors use to lead their procession to make offer to heaven. In the afternoon, you can pay a visit to the ruin of the summer Palace.
7.       The great wall is way out of the city, you must prepare to go there early in the morning, otherwise you will get stuck in the traffic on the road to no where. If you do not wanted to climb up the steep steps, you can fight with everyone else to get on the cable car. Once you are there, try to walk the wall to the more excluded area, bring some lunch and have a picnic there. You should not forget a pair of monocular. They are the place you really need it. Bring plenty of water, they charge you a fortune at the top. Unless you plan on coming back to visits again. This is one site really worth all the effort to get there. In your case you just ride the cable car, and hope that you do not get stuck mid way.
8.       The Olympic village is best to visits at dust. It is worth it. You can either ride the metro to get there, or you can rent a driver. Let be warn that it is a huge place. These buildings are huge as they are beautiful. Take pictures now before they got all rusty in a few years. The only problem I found is that I have to see then in a distance in order to appreciate them that mean a lot of walking around.
9.       If Bonus for art lovers, if you can spare the time. Please visit 798 arts Zone, it will transform you into another world. I love it there, and I never forget my visits.
10.   After many tiring days you are only scratching the surface of this great city.
11.   The night market, on Dong Hua Me street and Wangfujing Street. No self describe Sadism and Masochism will miss the chance to visit this place to really see what you are made of? Don’ let those little red lanterns fool you. In the evening on the predestine street, they will sell you food from live scorpion on a skewer, to the deep fried baby pigeons, skinned snakes, fat black cicadas, to frogs on sticks. So far it is appetizing? This is not Perking Duck, which is of course you have to sample as well. Make sure you made reservation from the hotel, the good restaurant require 24 hours ahead. Or you will end up watch other eating, and you may get some scraps if they decided to throw you a bone or two. No kidding here.
12.   It is time to decide if you wanted to visits more temples and many more historical sites or pack up to leave town, and heading to Xian.
13.   If you only have one day there, just ran straight from the airport or from the train to the tomb site. It is a mad house there. This is like an amusement park, the government knows, but not necessary let you get it all. It is still a working archaeological site, therefore still a lot of digging going on. Have lunch in the park, take some snap shot, it is time to go.
14.   If time allows I suggest you try to visit one of the best-preserved city walls. Protected the city of Xian, it is very impressive, you can also climb to the top.
15.   There are many more sites; unless you have time you will never have my experience of the never-ending dumpling dinner. They keep bring if you continue to eat them, even if you do not want any more, they still won’t stop. If you think what they show you at the entrance is their whole menu, wrong. That is your dinner, about 50 dishes of dumpling in all.

Then it is time to head to Shanghai. Your final destination. No worry. The war was over long time ago, and this is China, not Poland.

If you think you can relax and had some excellent Chinese food in the infamous Shanghai. My dear aliens, you are in the northern China, Not Hunan or Sichuan. The typical good in the region is sweet or salty. You will be fed with lots of fry tofu, chilli soup, bonny Chicken and fish. You can have the entire oily pan-fried dumpling if your stomach can take it, so prepare yourself accordingly.

1.       Besides all the stunning architectures you saw in the promotion pictures. The famous nightlife, pampering messages, beautiful and sexy girls, we can tell who the locals are. Expect humid stick weather and foggy days, as well as the famous pollution. I suppose you will encounter little rain. However some day you rather have them.
2.       If you saw the latest you tube, you know the girls dress up here. They are into high fashion. So Please pack accordingly. Otherwise I will tell my friends you guys are migrants’ farmers from the states.
3.       Foreign goods are more expensive than in NY or Paris. I will suggest saving the money, I can show you many other ways to spend your dollars on me.
4.       Drinks are expensive, and they are not real, only the bottle is. Can you even imagine having up to 10 drinks and still standing, or on the other hand you may have three drinks and you are unconscious. Of course there are real cocktails, the different is price, it is 80 vs. 30rmb. But then you are Americans, you are use to being ripe off, so what is the difference.
5.       By the way, forget about being serve real cheese, they are for the super rich American’s. We can’t afford it.
6.       So it is not all about food and drinks and make merry. There are many sites to see, I suppose you will be waking up late every morning, you do not have to worry about having the skinny Chinese station conductors with the flag again, stuffing your ass into the metro before the door close in the morning commune. LOL
7.       But that was only the first part, once the metro starts moving, you will find hand all over every part of your body, and that is not a message. If you are into cheap thrill, go for it.
8.       Forget about getting a Taxi during rush hours. You do not know how to fight for one. There is no moral here. Polite is not in the vocabulary. If you can beat and old lady or mother with child to getting a cab, more power to you during rush hours, I am not kidding here.
9.       Talking about Message, it is the best, pamper yourself to a VIP service, and you may even get lucky. It is x rated therefore I have no comments, enter at your own risk.
10.   Foot message is another one you must try. It is all fun and game although you may be screaming for pain in the process; I swear on my bed blanket they feel good afterword. It is like walking on air.
11.   There are a lot of sights to see, and miles of walking in shanghai, and very friendly people, the city are walk able as well as very livable.
12.   There are beautiful expat places everywhere, I can show you where to find them, as long as you bring your deep pocket, or credit card whatever you prefer.
13.   If it happens to fall on the right time, I may even take you to some of my regular parties. You will be surprise how popular I had became in this community.
14.   Boys beware, you may be swap away in a minute by all the Chinese girls, even though you hang on to another girls, won’t do too much good, they just murder her. That is how that works here. The competition to marry an expat is fearless.
15.   Since I will be your local guide here. I will not elaborate on where I am going to take you? I customize my tours for my friends and families according to their likes. There is no blanket treatment. Not to worry, I do not carry a loincloth on a stick, nor a bullhorn while parading through town, but they stare at me anyway. Just ask my friends, they found it is a very strange phenomena

This is just some of the pointers from my point of view to share with you. Have fun. The correctness of this blog should no the questioned, it is for entertainment base on some facts. If your brain is working over time, I suggest you save your effort when the presidential candidates came to town.

Chance encounter in three cities

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