Great Wall, Cloisonné, Olympic Stadiums, Worms!

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1st January 2008 (Tuesday)

my body is starting to generate heat to protect me.
*i eventually had a fever without knowing*

after breakfast, a quick one, we met Helen.
she was our tour guide for the day.

we took the private tour mainly cus it was suggested by Bob,
the hotel concierge, that it's safer. fine by us.

we divas, need to travel in style.
but since it's a luxurious hotel,
i pai seh to snap the picture of the limo.

i slept during the 1 hour ride to the great wall.
the part we went was the 'MUTIANYU wall',
was said to be better as it's built on hills,
so much steeper,
and has more original wall compared to the 'BADALING wall'.
but that package was cheaper.

it was freezing~
i have no idea how i survived!
but i doubt i want to do this in the summers,
damn hot~

in the modern days, cable cars existed.
the olden days, you have to hike up before even doing the "walk".
that is, pure madness!



one side is china one side is mongolia.
just amazing. i went two countries in one journey!
LOLs

the view, the scenery, the everything was just amazing.
i always wanted to see the great wall, and there i was.
breathtaking!



being built during apx 220BC, using only man labour, and literally humans,
this is one structure that no humans in the modern world can create,
without the help of technology.




closest i'll get to snow... for now...

so after some hours of walking,
just so i can camwhore
we decided it was enough.
as a man there said,
*a permanent resident there*
you can take 1000 pictures here today but it's all WALLs.
which was kind of true, only different perspectives and angles,
but the view is about the same,
with WALLS as your backdrop.

i know, i camwhored a LOT~





boy oh boy~
the we came up with the cable car,
we went down, with the Tobago?
sudah lupas,
but COOLS!!!
like those sunway lagoon water ride from the hill down.
all the way from great wall down to earth... HAHAHAHA!



FUNs!!!
Helen gets to ride all these for free! damnit! so FUN~
*helen & chee was walking hiking on great wall with heels!*

we went for a quick Cloisonné history tour.
shopped a bit
didn't know that those pots were enamel & copper wire,
always thought they were ceramics.
then lunch. didn't turn out as yummie as we hoped for.

then drove back to town,
helen was kind enough to take us to the olympic village for a quick detour,
considering this was suppose to be a half day tour.

was so amazing lo to see how they build the stadium.


later we went to the silk factory shop,
at first we were thinking...
OH they are going to show us KAINs...
GOOD!
we shouldn't have anything to buy.

turns out... they showed us comforters...
made of silk. soft nice comfty silks.
the process and the cocoons, showing us the worms, etc.
made it worth while... so worth it... so true...
so luxurious...

cloisonné factory & silk shop


i ended up owning a RMB1980 G3 silk comforter...
PENGZ.

then we went to the tea house.
to see a pissing tea boy.
but they don't do english or malay or canto.
that hour was for russian. yea sure.

went to another one which was way simpler.
we ended up with more bags

that wraps up the entire so called half day tour.
helen then asked the driver to send us to Green Tea House,



where i had the most expensive dinner in beijing,
RMB1200 per person without wine or taxes yet.

and SIAL, they don't allow photography.
but die die also we wanted to take,
afterall we sorta flew all the way here just for this restaurant.
and to later find out they have a new outlet in hong kong

so the professional camwhore started doing spy shots.


after dinner chee went back, for her spa, and i headed down to 'The Place Mall' again,
since i so tak puas didn't manage to camwhore with the big lighted tv screen!



was ok la. not that hooo haaa afterall. but BIG nonetheless.






on the way back was so tired, but manage to do a quick snap of this light up drums tower.

... i thinks... haha. forgotten the building's name de. LOLs.

and i ended the night with a swim at the heated pool. splash~

*and eventually found out i'm not suppose to snap the pools picture... OPS*