China 2001 - Part One: Beijing & Tianjin

"A cricket vendor at the Panjiayuan flea market in Beijing"

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Travel story: China 2001 - Part One: Beijing & Tianjin

Beijing, Saturday, September 1



I arrived in Beijing at about 2 in the afternoon. As this was my second visit, I felt a certain comfortable familiarity as I went about my business in the airport. First, I cashed some travelers’ checks and then bought an onward ticket to Kashgar, in the west of China. Finally, I walked outside and got in the taxi queue. I passed the taxi touts who frequent the arrival hall, preferring the reliability of the authorized taxi service. More