{"id":4864,"date":"2010-03-21T00:23:26","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T07:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=4864"},"modified":"2010-03-21T00:55:20","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T07:55:20","slug":"beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/beijing\/","title":{"rendered":"Beijing \u5317\u4eac"},"content":{"rendered":"

After two weeks in China I’m glad to be back “home” in Tokyo. Let’s back up a bit to my first photo of China… <\/p>\n

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Snow<\/a> had covered everything but flights didn’t seem too affected.<\/p>\n

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The contrasts between the snow and everything else made things a bit more interesting than the normal, smoggy haze.<\/p>\n

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The Beijing airport is huge. I took a train after passing through immigration just to get to the luggage claim. Then I took another to get to the terminal where my connecting flight was. I wandered far and wide to try to get the free internet advertised but failed in the end.<\/p>\n

I had come from Haneda Airport in Tokyo to Beijing, where I changed planes for Zhengzhou (\u90d1\u5dde). Despite the snow in Beijing, all was warm and cozy in the airport.<\/p>\n

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This plane’s design looked more fitting for a tarmac in Hawaii than Beijing on this day.<\/p>\n

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I was a little bit surprised to find myself the only non-Chinese person on the plane from Beijing to Zhengzhou. I had no idea that the last non-Chinese faces I would see for two weeks would basically be those I saw in the Beijing airport. I was introduced to two, short-term, visiting faculty (one from the UK and one from New Zealand) like myself, but, other than them, I didn’t see a single non-Chinese for two weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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