Photos and videos around the Great Wall Sheraton hotel in Beijing in which we stayed for three days in 2008 ahead of a cruise organised by Princess Cruises.
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We were married in 2008 and ahead of this event we’d explored the options for our honeymoon. We wanted to do something big and two weeks on a beach somewhere really wasn’t our thing. Someone suggested a cruise so we looked into it, had a chat with a travel agent, and suddenly we were arranging visas and working out what currencies we needed to buy.
Our honeymoon cruise was our first cruise and involved flying out to spend three days in Beijing before boarding Diamond Princess for two weeks in and around the South China Sea. On this cruise we visited Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taiwan, the Japanese island of Okinawa, Singapore, Vietnam, and finished in Thailand.
Chinese Silk Factories
Photographs from two silk factories in China.
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The Beijing National Aquatics Centre, Water Cube
Photos and video from inside the Water Cube, the Olympic swimming pool used in the 2008 games held in Beijing, China.
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Bird’s Nest Olympic Stadium, Beijing
Photos and videos from inside the Bird’s Nest Olympic Stadium in Beijing, China, taken in 2008.
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The Great Wall of China
Videos and photographs from a return trip between Beijing and the portion of the Great Wall of China just to its north taken in 2008.
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Summer Palace, Beijing
A short visit to the tranquil setting of the Summer Palace in Beijing, China, including a short boat trip out onto the lake there.
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Tiananmen Square
Photos and a short piece of video during a stop at Tiananmen Square while we were staying in Beijing for a few days prior to embarking on our honeymoon cruise.
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The Forbidden City
The second organised activity on our penultimate day in China would be a wander through Beijing‘s Forbidden City, only a short stroll across one road from the northern end of Tiananmen Square which had been our first tourist stop and which you’ll already have read because you like reading things […]
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Beijing Hutongs
Video of a pedicab ride through Beijing to the Hutongs and photos of the area around there plus a short stop at public gardens.
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Temple Of Heaven, Beijing
Pictures and several videos of my favourite stop during our stay in Beijing, the Temple of Heaven, where locals come to exercise, dance, sing, and play games.
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