Beihai Park

Location: Beijing, China
Local Time: Sunday, October 1, 2006 - 5:05pm

Well, this morning I went to Ritan Park with my roommate here in the dorm, a Czech fellow who just spent a month in Mongolia and a month in Sichuan province. We played push hands for an hour or so, and occasionally attracted people to stare at us.

Then, I went with Val to Beihai park. However, we accidently stopped off at Jingshan Park instead (it is right beside Beihai Park) and we wandered around there for half an hour before we figured out we were in the wrong park. We knew there had to be a body of water somewhere, then we checked the name on the tickets.

Jingshan Park has a tall hill with a temple on the top, so we climbed up there and got a nice bird's eye view of Beijing.

Then we climbed down, left the park, walked down the road and entered Beihai Park. The body of water was easy to find. It was the part of the park all full of floating pedal boats and Chinese tourists. This week is a vacation week for all of China, and Beijing is busy.