No. 16: Beijing in 48 Hours - Work and Play!

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I caught a plane Monday morning at 10.30am from Hong Qiao Airport (about 25mins from where I live in Shanghai) and arrived in Beijing at 12.30pm. This left the best part of the day to check into the hotel, have a good lunch, do some work and then sight-see Beijing by night! After a good night's sleep we set out early on site - later on that day we had time to sight see Beijing by day and by dusk we were headed for the airport to catch a 8pm flight back to Shanghai.

You need about a week in Beijing to see everything. I had two days where the best part of the day was spent on site just outside of Beijing. So here are some snap shots of the experience I had. If I had to describe those two days in one sentence it would go something like this:

Romantic and mysterious, a perfect place to sit all night in the buzzing atmosphere chatting, with a bottle of red wine, a platter of exotic fruit and good company!