Asia Trip cont. Beijing

Okay went went from China to South Korea, now we were headed back north to China again, where we docked at Beijing's port city of Tianjin. Beijing is inland, so we had to take the bus two and a half hours to reach the city. We felt that the excursion offered by the ship was too pricey, so we booked a private recommended tour, which was three days and two nights and included bus ride, touring, hotel (and food).

 First stop was to be The Great Wall of China, but they fed us first. I thought they had put all of the food on the table when I took this, but it kept coming and the filled the entire table

  Normally my mountain climbing husband would insist that we walk up, but he is having hip problems so we took the chair lift.

The weather was absolutely perfect. It was sort of surreal for me....the feeling I got when standing on that wall.

 After the bus ride and The Great Wall, which was enough for one day, they took us to our hotel. Not sure what to expect,  but we were pleased to find a very nice comfortable....western type room. (3star). I actually am not a particular as my husband.

This little box in our room was unusual to me. I take it that is to wear in case of a fire?

We are what you call news junkies and turn on our morning report as soon as we get up. Ahhh don't think we can understand these people. Thankfully the t.v. channels included International CNN

Tom was ready to take an early morning walk (despite his hip) and was pleased to find you know what? Did you know that they have pretty darn good (American) coffee?

We found ourselves in a very modern area that could have been any large city.....but this statue brought us back.

I would have preferred to be in an older section of town....which I am pleased to report was next on our tour.