Непутёвые заметки ...

[crazyivan]

Here`s a little more. Sorry about spelling of names..not sure how it`s spelled




"The flight itself took about 6.5 hours and somewhere around 10 in the morning - local time - we arrived to Pekin.
We were picked up by the bus at the airport, while Gennadich had to fly out to Buhan?? (not sure about spelling) and he stayed at the airport, waiting for his flight. First, our bus went towards some place where were had to have lunch and it was not too far away from from Tyan An Men plaza and was located in some museum. I must mention that our guide could speak pretty good russian and we even found out how to send SMS`s on chinese language. I can`t recall her name, but on russian it sounded like Lena, which she told us herself. After lunch, we realized that there are 4-5 hours left till our train departure so we convinced Lena to give us a tour and we headed to Tyan An Men plaza. The plaza itself was enormous size and according to Lena it is the biggest one in the World. From the plaza we turned right into Forbidden Town, the place where lives Emperor of China. And once again, enormous achitecture with all kinds of fancy stuff attached to them. Basically one thing got stuck in our minds... the fact that Imperor had around 3000 ladies living there and for quiet some time we were trying to figure out how many times per day Emperor was "busy".
After that we were shown the "Tea Ceremony" and our guide explained to us what how and when and even showed it. All this had some kind of impact on us and we bought some tea and accessories for it. Next thing in our schedule was Temple of the Skies, place where Emperor was praying and talking to god and stuff .
All those events perfectly covered our free time in Pekin, needless to say that we were pretty tired and headed to Western Train station of Pekin where we boarded train T37 to Bukhan which was departing at 18:53.
After successful loading into the train we got to know its residents, did some alcohol on goodies exchange and without wasting any of our time started to "destroy" alcohol products, but not in the great quantities, since we still remembered that we kind of had to fly tomorrow. By the way, train itself looks a lot like our trains, only with one "but", bathrooms are cleaner and each train cart has its own sink. After long struggle with ourselfs and trying not to get wasted along with our "brothers" from other country we fall asleep somewhere after midnight and as it turned out later, right on time, because someone passed out and people had to drag him to his place, thank god, we didn`t have to do that."