Beijing (a whole week in November)

Accommodation: 9 Dragons Guest house (15€ double en suite)

Sightseeing: Tienanmen Square, Monument of the People's heroes, Temple of Heaven, Forbidden city, Palace Museum, Old city (Liunlichang street), Olympic stadium, Olympic aquarium

Places worth of visit:
1. “Waiting for Godot” café (4-24 Jiadaokou east st., dongcheng) for notebooks, internet, table games, cool people, seek for greek sayings on the wall
2. Close market stands around Dengshikou subway station (0,5-1 € all food things like gyros, spinach pie, jelly fish suvlaki, seaweed)
3. Beijing Duck at Da Dong restaurant, cozy poshy place (22€ whole duck)
4. Street full of small nice bars and pubs (learn the dice games), a bit touristic though (2€ beer, 4€ drink)
5. Oldest pharmacy in the country situated in the old city, emperor used to get his herbs from here [a part of an animal used as natural Viagra since ages (1.000€ per gram)]
6. Airport (6€ by metro) keep lighters in checked-in luggage

Highlights

• Custom made bike tours around the sights (Quite many kms per day, as blocks are more or less size of NY)
• Trekking 12km on the Great Wall from Jandling to Simatai. You pay both entrance and exit unless you want to walk 4 hours back ;)
• Scam at tea houses or handicrafts(watch out whoever speaks good English and spends more than 2 hours with you around)
• Hot pot at a restaurant and many street cooking stands