Rising nice and early, in fact so early that our buses weren't even running, we left our apartment for the last time for 2 months at 6am and made our journey to the train station - a place we are going to be spending a lot of time at over the next 2 months. Boarding the fast train, we rocketed away to Beijing, and with a Hostelling International hostel right across from the train station, we had soon offloaded our pack after only having to carry them for a total of 10 minutes on our first day - woohoo!!
After dumping our bags we began our first navigation task in the capital - finding the Vietnamese Embassy, only to find everybody at lunch! Taking their cue we went out in search of lunch ourselves - a task which was much harder than we thought! It seems like Beijing has lost all of its 'China': roads are clean and orderly (cars even stop at red lights), pedestrians cross when the green man flashes, buildings are extremely Western, and there were no street food vendors in sight!
After lunch we spent half an hour relaxing in a park before our up and coming visa adventure! On arrival at the embassy we were delightfully surprised with the quick and speedy process - we were in and out within 20 minutes! Nothing like the hours we endured in Hong Kong!
Back at the hostel we lazed around before heading to a vegetarian restaurant right across the road from us where we dined on chicken and fish for dinner!
Adlibing it to China's capital.
Sunday, January 6, 2008
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