One Day I got a wonderful postcard from China.......

AK - Jeff

.... with this image [although not the exact picture].

http://www.kinabaloo.com/fcc.html

So I decided to do a little digital inspection of the place online. Now I really must go there someday....

Anyone here ever been?

Jeff

Is the Forbidden City where they have the huge portraits of Mao? My brother and I spent one night in Beijing at the end of a long train-ride through Siberia and Mongolia. We had to leave on a flight first thing in the morning, but we did grab a quick taxi down to Tiananman Square and took some photos with Chairman Mao. Here's one (bro's face blacked out for privacy):

changeling

Can I come too?

Hortensia

Yes, I've been there. Four trips to China to study massage. The Forbidden City isn't as interesting as some other things in Beijing. The temple of heaven is beautiful, and the ancient observatory is very very interesting. Also the lama temple, can't remember the Chinese name right now, but all the taxi drivers know where the "lama temple" is, is my favorite place. The summer palace is very pretty, lots of beautiful places to walk including one called the long walk with dozens and dozens of paintings on the walls and ceilings, with windows so you can look out over the lake.

Hortensia

you know what was the best thing? Standing on the great wall at Mutianyu, saying to myself, girl you are a LONG way from home. It was quite a liberating feeling, on my first trip to China, and when I got back home I changed my life, dumped JWs and other non-working relationships. I felt, on the great wall, as if I couldn't get any farther from home unless I was an astronaut. Quite a feeling.

Hermano

I'll take a shrimp fried rice and general tsao's chicken, and two egg rolls.

changeling

I love PF Chang's! Lettuce wraps and Mongloian Beef, yumm!!!!

changeling

OnTheWayOut

Standing on the great wall at Mutianyu, saying to myself, girl you are a LONG way from home. It was quite a liberating feeling, on my first trip to China, and when I got back home I changed my life, dumped JWs and other non-working relationships. I felt, on the great wall, as if I couldn't get any farther from home unless I was an astronaut.

It sounds like a wonderful thing to do. Jeff, you would love it.

OH, those Watch Towers on the corners of the Forbidden City- those are the only kind of Watch Towers you will find
in that area of Beijing. The printed kind are not distributed there. You actually would not be approached in a city of
more than 13 million people by JW's selling literature.

You might also consider taking a gliding lesson. That takes you away soaring- this gliding I have never done, but I
imagine you would love it.

fahrvegnugen

I don't know if you'd be approached but there was a group of young pioneers from my KH who moved to Beijing under the guise of "teaching English" who were actually there to preach. I heard they were conducting a lot of Bible studies.

AK - Jeff

Seems like we actually have quite a bit of 'Chinese experience' on the board. Is Beijing the place to go? Other than the Great Wall I mean?

If Wifey and I ever shed the grandmunchkins [which might happen in the next few months we hope], we need to get away. But of course with the current backlog of passports it might be domestically I suppose.

OTWO - I really do want to do the gliding thing someday. Seems like a restful hobby.

Jeff

One Day I got a wonderful postcard from China.......

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