Ulan Bator, Mongolia to Beijing, China
Mongolia is an ex Soviet country, still has some Russian influences.
Lenin statue
Took bus 7 to Zoisan Hill in the morning.
A big Budhha statue.
There are 681 steps to get up the hill.
View from the hill
Seems like Korea and Mongolia has a very close relationship.
A friendship park sponsored by the Korean government.
Had lunch at a University’s cafeteria just opposite the Zoisan Hill bus station. I like eating at University’s cafeteria because usually there are a good varieties of local food and is cheaper.
1500 Tugrug~USD1
Mongolian University
Took bus 11 at around 2pm to the airport.
The airport is around 18km away from the airport and got on the Mongolian Airways OM 0223 flight at 5.25pm to Beijing. After 34th countries, this will be my 6th flights in this trip.
Portrait of some Mongol leaders in the airport
Greetings in Cyrillic
This is what it means
Goodbye Ulan Bator
A bird eye view of the mountains
Arrived at Beijing airport at 7.25pm. Beijing airport is pretty big and new.
To get to the city there are 2 options, one is by the airport shuttle (16 Yuan) and the other one is by the airport express train (25 Yuan~USD$4). Took the later option and got to the city in 30 minutes.
Airport express train
Got to DongZhiMen and then transfer to BeiXinQiao subway stop to the LamaHostel (40 Yuan~USD6) which is just behind Gui Lu. Gui Lu is a street with many restaurants and is located at the north eastern part of Beijing, inside the 3rd ring road.
Gui Lu
There’s even a Hooters in Beijing
Walked to SanLiTun from the Hostel. It’s around 40 minutes walk east and SanLiTun is an area famous for bars and pubs.
There are many new shopping malls in that area which wasn’t there 6 years ago when I visited.
The main street for pub isn’t that popular now. Most expatriates and young Chinese hang out at a small street behind. It’s a little similar to lower east side in New York city with some dive bars and smaller clubs.
It’s amazing how the lifestyle became normalized in this world. You cannot distinguish between the life in newyork, beijing or cairo.Is the capitalisme the most close system the nature of human being?
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