Taking the overnight bus from Hangzhou to Beijing was nothing less than an extraordinary choice. The bus did not have reclining seats like the one I took from Shenzhen to Xiamen. Oh no, this bus had 3 rows of narrow bunk beds, which I found abnormally comfortable. Between being in a horizontal position and the movement of the bus, I slept like a baby for almost the entire 15-hour trip, shocking the Chinese people around me. To them, I was the little white boy who could sleep through anything and, when awake, converse in halfway decent Mandarin.
I have now arrived in Beijing and am in the process of eating lunch in the midst of Beijing’s hyper-artsy 798 district. My lunch is nothing of much excitement since I chose the location due to its internet and décor rather than it’s extensive menu of delicious dishes. It’s almost sacrilegious, but I’m eating pizza and drinking coffee in Beijing….. I assure you it’s only because the menu lacked Chinese food and I desperately needed a place use the internet and to charge up my electronics (first world problems, I know). More to come soon!
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