Finished in Beijing, but could stay another week.

Eat your heart out Chris Weatherhead. Peking duck to ourselves, including duck brains! Rachel shared the duck without Huggy telling her it was chicken!
The marble boat in the Summer palace.
One of the unusual bridges around the Summer Palace.
On the great wall.
Believe it or not, I made it over this bridge!


Thought we would put some more pictures on before we left Beijing for Xain tomorrow night. Walked the great wall today - 4 hours of up and down and very steep. Walked with 3 brits, one on holiday , a british muslim optician and 2 at University in Beijing on an exchange from a london University. Rachel did really well and even managed the suspension bridge! Spent some parts of the wall climbing up on all fours as it was so steep, will definetly be aching tomorrow. We visited Jinglang shei and Simatai. We also experienced our first communal squat loos today! Wow, they stank! The day was very misty so we didn't need any suntan lotion. Nice little project for Kenny Leather to rebuild if he is bored!
Yesterday we visited the Summer Palace which was very nice and we had a 3 hour walk around the lake. Also went to the zoo which was interesting. A lot of the zoo has not be done up yet so was not nice to see as the animals were in very small, concrete areas. The areas that had been done up so far were modern with land, but still needed shrubs or grass in places for the animals. The bird of Prey section was very good and had a lot of room. We are both famous now after 2 lots of people stopped us to have our photo taken with them as they had not seen Westerners before! A little embarassing! A guy with a 2 year old blond haired Jacob look a like had swarms of Chinese ladies around him, patting him on the head!