The Wild Orchid World of Ling: Beijing Again!!! Well not confirmed yet

Last year my boss said that if we hit target this year, will organise a company trip to Beijing. However, this year he said the trip to be postponed to next year. Actually I'm not so keen to go Beijing because I've been there in year 2005, I prefer if the trip is to somewhere I've never been before. But now, I doubt if he will honour his words coz he keeps on changing his mind etc....Anyway, I don't care...coz I think if the trip is on, it's a bonus to me.

Well, let me share some of my Beijing photos back in 2005. I remember the first day we touched down, the temperature soared up to 40 degrees, the highest in 40 years. It was in June 2005 & i bought this package during MATTA FAIR. At that time, I worked in a travel agency. The package is quite cheap only costs each of us RM1500++, that's why I grabbed it & I went with 1 of my sister. She still studying in Uni at that time. Since this is a group tour, we have another maybe 15 travel companions. Our group is really fun group. I remember in our group - we have 1 Indian couple, 1 mother & daughter pair, 1 uncle & auntie pair, 2 young Chinese couple, 1 family which consists of parents & daughter & son-in-law. Even though we do not know each other but we having fun travelling together.

Buying a cheap package comes with some consequences - haha....it's means shopping shopping & shopping...The tour guide & tour leader will bring you to many places to buy, buy & buy as they earned commission by bringing tourists to buy products from the shop. Everyday they bring us to different shops - I remember the first stop is Chinese Tea & I've bought some expensive tea which till now still haven't finished drinking. They also brought us to jade shop, pearl shop, Chinese medicine shop - Bao Fu Ling (the famous one) & another shop (which I don't know the name) but I remember it's situated inside the Confucious Temple. And also silk & some Chinese deco(don't know what it's called in English) but in Chinese is called as 京泰蓝(don't know my translation in Chinese is correct or not) but it sounds like this. It's a good experience for me - I remind myself not to buy so much on my next holidays coz it's just wasting $$$$$....

Anyway, here's some of the photos I took:

At Tiananmen Square....our flight is midnight flight, reached Beijing Airport early in the morning & we straightaway come to Tiananmen Square....many people & tour groups.
There's a countdown to 2008 Olympic board then......