bluesky 2008-3-7 10:21
我的一个加拿大朋友在中国旅游后的感想
Hong Kong.
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What a city!vd6H!x~
I’ve never been in one so multi-cultural before.
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I heard so many languages that I couldn’t place being spoken, saw so many different faces, and tasted so many different foods.
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One thing that blew my mind was that almost everyone spoke English there.
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One day I was at a wetland park by a crocodile pen and overheard a father explaining something about fish to his pre-school-aged son while switching back and forth between 3 languages. ]K[&G5~Rk0`
Incredible.!Ic@ _Cv
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Another thing that surprised me about HK was its size, this city is tiny.3P)E:SxAm0N
This suited me fine because it’s real easy to travel around and see everything.
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If any of you ever go to China definitely go to Hong Kong, not because it’s representative of China, but because it rocks.
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Beijing.
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I saw Mao’s body.Q3v[*s7jp}7M
It was completely accidental as well.
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I was walking towards what I though was a line for the Forbidden City when a hawker pounced..eAd-[{&P~%Mw
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So I did, checked it, then headed back into the line where he then told me to give him 50 HKD.:G?%k_;y}9^
“Okay, now, you, front line go!”Q,wV.h] W"F5?
I gawked and looked in the direction of a police officer (or soldier, I couldn’t quite distinguish which) who had been watching the whole thing.
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That’s what you just paid money for (because the mausoleum is actually free).” D’oh!'b/}/u%?jf7yZ
Anyway, I was shuffled into the mausoleum and looked up to see a white seated sculpture of Mao.
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“What the ----?”*Ry?1^ r*Z-d
I thought briefly before the line of people I was standing in was shuffled into another room, a room with Mao’s body in the center.
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It was kind of funny because my brain couldn’t really accept what it was seeing but I didn’t really have time to recover because you can’t stop, you’re just whisked into the adjoining souvenir shop..JDF6e]m+ip]
Though I got cheated somewhat it was worth it because it was such a weird experience.g%T
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Luckily that was the only time I was ripped off (people in Beijing are notorious for cheating you…if you go there you MUST barter everything), but it was worth it because of the craziness that ensued.3Np!_
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Besides the Mao Masoleum, I saw the other typical touristy stuff; Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City, the Temple of Heaven, the Summer Palace, Chinese acrobats, a hutong tour, and I even managed to hike a rough section of the Great Wall (Jinshangling to Simatai), which was brilliant but rough.{$^
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Near the end a girl that I was hiking with and I rounded a corner near the end and both of our legs literally started to shake because the incline was about 75 degrees.
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Normally that wouldn’t bother me but after 4 hours of hiking the wall my body started backlashing…hehe.
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So, even though I enjoyed myself in Beijing I was shocked at how impersonal and unfriendly the city was, for travelers and locals alike.