Sunday, August 28, 2011

Capital of China


The city of Beijing is a beautiful city with thousands of years of history engraved in it. This city has many beautiful people with a good sense of fashion, many common dishes served in their many restaurants, and overwhelming architecture in their ancient places. This city welcomed us with stares from all around, and people wanted to take pictures of us as if we were celebrities!

This city is different from New York City in many different ways from the intense traffic and the thousands of people riding bicycles to get to their destinations, to the high tech subways and the many street vendors.

I liked everything in Beijing from the many different dishes we tried in different restaurants like the Mongolian hot pot and the roast duck. The reaturants were something new to us and I feel we all enjoyed it in Beijing. Seeing the ancient palaces and the Great Wall of China—one of the seven wonders of the world—were the opportunity of a lifetime and an experience that I’m glad I took part in. My favorite place that we visited in China was today, the “Lama Temple.” The Lama Temple is where mostly Mongolian Lamas (Buddhist monks) worshipped a type of Buddhism from Tibet mixed with some elements of their own religion from northwest China. This temple was filled with beautiful flowers and trees. It seemed so relaxed, comfortable, and welcoming. People from all over the world came to pay their respects to Buddha by burning incest and praying. I enjoyed seeing real life lamas and monks. They really caught my attention and piqued my curiosity about religion, because I didn’t know they still existed. The most interesting thing in the Lama Temple was the huge Buddha statue carved out of wood that was a gift to the Buddha.




The City of Beijing is a beautiful, advanced, and historical place that I enjoyed visiting. The food and history were definitely the highlights of Beijing. 

Alexandria Silva

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