Beijing Trip Part 7

Name : Beijing Trip Day 5
Date : 31st December 2009
Place : NanShan Ski Resort, WangFuJing Walking Street

Day 5 was rather an uneventful day compared to the previous 4 days. We were allowed to have late breakfast (by China's standard) and late check out due to the fact that we had just checked-in to the hotel less than 6 hours ago (like 3am in the morning from here?). Most of our tour members skipped their breakfast in exchange for more sleeping hours. I managed to wake up early somehow therefore I still went down to the dining hall to try out their buffet breakfast though. And I had a short morning walk under the ever-freezing weather because apparently the dining hall was inside another building. =.=

shot this outside the hotel lift.

Ancient Wine glass wei..

Ancient Chinese Vessel.

Departed from the hotel around 10something and headed to NanShan Ski Resort 北京南山滑雪度假村 for what else besides skiing. Well since it was Winter, of course we had to try out some Winter sports just for the sake of trying what. I mean how often can you try that in a tropical country like Malaysia right?

We had lunch over there too because our tour guide knew most of us couldn't wake up for breakfast so he arranged an early lunch for us.

After lunch we straight away checked-in to the ski area.

The duration was 2 hours long and expected to finish at 2.22pm.

Getting ready our equipments.

Both of us were noob first timer actually.

she chose to sit down at the cafeteria and chat with other aunties.
She claimed that she was too old for it already.. =.=

Oh yea, 1 thing I have to highlight over here. All the photos in the skii resort was taken using my Nikon L16 Digital camera because I kept my SLR in the bus. I found that it was kinda impossible for me to carry it around while I kept on falling and cuddling in the snow. So yeah, have to tolerate with its quality a little bit. And after such a long period leaving the digital camera world, I suddenly looked like a new camera user.. lol...

ski field for beginners.

he certainly had the style from this photo. hehe...

The first step was always important as a beginner..

In my opinion, the hardest part of it wasn't how to keep yourself balance while sliding down but how to press the break paddle after all the accelerations. How to get yourself up after taking a hard fall was a big problem too. During the first few trials, we couldn't even handle the ski lift. Funny moments indeed.

 

and after experimenting for like an hour, I started to get some rhythm already and decided to go for something more extreme.

was to leave my brother behind and go for the intermediate trail which had greater elevation and thus faster acceleration. Initially we promised to conquer it together but seemed like he still stuck in the beginner trail so no choice I had to go up solo. *sigh*

looking downwards from the peak of intermediate trail.

by the way, the small slope at the end there was the beginner trail.

looked so serious with the sunglasses.

Two girls asked for my help to be their camera man so in return they helped me out in this too. Like this photo very much and thanks a lot again.

The advanced trail. Pro snowboarders could even jump on it.

Ah-ha, finally One nice photo from my digital camera.

Actually I still couldn't brake properly at that time but the real fun part about intermediate trail was the great acceleration which I enjoyed the most. Couldn't make any nice turnings but accelerating down the slope in one straight line was more than enough for me already heh.. ^^

Some may ask, since I had the problem of changing direction and braking, so what if there was somebody blocking our way?? Well, I guess that was the definition of collision lor... hahaha....

she wanted a photo with the snowy mountain before leaving.

another one over here.

although she didn't ski, but she can still have photos wei... lol.

After leaving the ski resort, we were brought to another typical government authorised shop. This time was foot massage at their Olympic sports center if my memory serves me right. And as usual I would choose to skip this part. Next we went to this area called WangFuJing street 王府井大街.

It is a famous shopping street around Beijing with plenty of history.

The sky may looked dark but it was 6pm plus only at that time.

There was a huge book store (7 stories) at the other side of the street and we spent most of our time inside there. Bought some nice books with a good price but left little time to finish the other side of the street. >.<

Although it was already New Year eve but we could still see Christmas tree.

street light deco.

spotted this Giant Jabulani at the center of the square.

Speaking of Jabulani, the World Cup had already ended 7 months heh.

took turns to pose with it.

Actually he doesn't know much about football... lol...

1990 Official World Cup ball. 

Nice bokeh effect. Favourite photo of the day.

then we crossed the famous WangFuJing Snack Street to get back to our bus.

Massive crowd along the narrow street.

another side of the junction selling small souvenirs.

The reason why this snack street is so famous for.

Fried starfish..

Forgotten selling for how much but should be RMB10 I think.

living baby scorpions.

They fried it on the spot for a few seconds & could be eaten just like that.

I didn't try out the scorpions though because I was freak out when I saw their legs still moving actively. So I took this fried seahorse instead.

Hard and Dry. tasted something like Ikan Bilis.

Didn't feel very satisfied.

Isk...should had really try out that scorpion.. =.=

Given more time standing in front of the stall observing how other people ate them, I think I would have persuaded myself to take up that scorpion. But at that time we were rushing back to the bus, so the timing just wasn't that right. Next trip I assume??

For that day, We had dinner in this restaurant 全聚德烤鸭店.

had Beijing's famous Roasted Duck.

and trust me it tasted so nice wei...

1 of the best meal we had in Beijing.

After dinner, we went back to Hotel and had good rest..

As the next day would be full of walking again.

Coming Up Next : How about a trip to the Summer Palace during Winter??