Posts in China

Opera din Sichuan (Chengdu)

În 2005 am ajuns în Chengdu, capitala provinciei Sichuan și ghidul pe care l-am angajat împreună cu alți backpackeri (apropo datele lui de contact le-am[…]

Mooncakes and the Mid-Autumn Day Festival

I have to confess, I’m a big fan of mooncakes! For those of you who don’t know what’s a mooncake – Mooncake (濿饼; pinyin: yuè[…]

Meet the Beijing Olympic Mascots – FuWa’s

It’s for the first time when instead of the usual one character for the Olympic mascot we’ve got a bunch of them. It seems that[…]

Plan and seats of the Olympic Stadium in Beijing

I wrote a review about the Olympic Stadium in Beijing some time ago and noticed that people also find this article when looking for the[…]

National Grand Theater of China, Beijing

National Grand Theater of China which is sometimes referred to as Beijing Opera House, but is nicknamed “The Egg” is actually officially called – National[…]

My neighborhood getting ready for the Olympics!

Beijing is getting ready for the 2008 Olympics and the atmosphere of the Olympic Games approaching is everywhere. Even in my quiet neighborhood now you[…]

The new Wanshang Hotel in Beijing

Everyone who’s been in Beijing with the Carnival remembers the “Wanshang Garden Hotel” we stayed in 2004 and 2005. I was just happened to pass[…]

Beijing National Olympic Stadium (Bird’s Nest) Review

Almost 2 weeks ago I had a chance to visit the newly built pride and beauty of the 2008 Beijing summer Olympics – Beijing National[…]

Spring in Beijing

For other a month now, even more actually, since the end of the Chinese New Year I’ve been wasting my time in Beijing. Yeah, back[…]

You Know You’ve Lived in China Too Long When…

I found a group on facebook recently with this topic and it is so funny! Well it probably would be funny for the ones who[…]