Beijing, China V (11/03/2013-11/07/2013)

Wow - the fifth time Beijing has appeared in my blog. While there are cities I go to quite often, few change as rapidly as this one.  I am continuously amazed and a little terrified of the rapid change I see each time I visit China, and looking at the skies and listening to the people this time around, I wonder how sustainable it is.

In any case, to avoid becoming repetitive, here's a few new places (and a few old but changed). Notable mentions are eating dinner in a Mongolian yurt, Qianmen (where we had some legendary shumai), Tiananmen, visiting Houhai Lake, and taking a high speed train over 1,300 km to Shanghai in just over 4 hours!