When we arrived in Beijing it was late in the day
and surprisingly warm. The first thing that we did was to organise a tour to
the Great Wall and a wake up call at 6:15am. Then we went to bed.
When we woke up we put our clothes on and went to
get some breakfast before the tour but it was 3:15am! Dad thinks they
misunderstood when we organised the wake up call. We put our PJs back on, set
our phone alarm and went back to sleep. At 6:15am we woke up, got dressed had
breakfast and went on the tour.
The drive to the Great Wall was two and a half
hours long. Our tour guide’s name was Leo. He told us he was famous and was on
Australian radio and TV. He was a funny guy and very interesting. We drove to a
part of the great wall which was right next to Mongolia. We walked for a long
time on the Great Wall and my dad and I even went past the point that Leo told
us not to pass. Then we had to get back to have lunch and we were late with our
tour group after that we drove back to all the people's hotels and we were the
first stop. Then after that we had buffet for dinner and it tasted very
good.
The next day we woke up and then went went to Silk
Street which was a lot of shops that had fake stuff. For lunch we went to a
restaurant called Dadong so dad could have the best Peking Duck in Beijing. It
was really good, it came out with traditional pancakes, puffy bread, cucumber,
radishes, pickles, sugar, garlic, sauce and onion. In the evening we went to
Wangfujing street and looked at all the street food. They had weird food like
scorpions, starfish, crickets and seahorses. They also had dumplings, drinks
and toffee fruit. It was a stinky street. We didn’t eat anything there.
The next day we went on a tour and we were the only people on the tour.
Our tour guide was Jamie. He was really nice. First we looked at Tiananmen Square then we
walked around the Forbidden City. We went to the Heavenly Temple next and watched
people dancing, doing tai chi and playing hacky sack. Jamie bought me a hacky
sack to play with at home. After that we had lunch and went to the Summer Palace.
On our last day in Beijing we went to the shopping centre near by the
hotel. We looked at the shops, had some ice-cream and looked at a supermarket. They
had lots of yummy food to try like cake, strawberries, cookies and more. We
watched a guy cutting up a pineapple and packing it ready to sell. There was
also an ice skating rink at the shopping centre and most of the people skating
were really good. We swam in the hotel pool.
