Monika F. posted an article on My Trip To China - Aug 24, 2010, 3:39 am
I spent over 5 months in China and really tried to learn Chinese language on my own but it was really hard. Of course I learned basics, few sentences in mandarin but still I was using my husband in order to communicate with people there. Now, after many months back I decided to learn it hard so by m...
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Monika F. posted an article on My Trip To China - Aug 19, 2010, 9:02 am
Karaoke Television in short KTV is the most popular form of entertainment in China and I must say that this is fun. Almost every young person there wants to become a singer and the rest of them just love to sing. I have been in several KTV's with my husband's friends and even though I didn't know an...
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Monika F. posted an article on My Trip To China - Aug 9, 2009, 1:56 pm
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Monika F. posted an article on My Trip To China - Feb 27, 2009, 5:23 am
This post I would like dedicate to all tourists visiting China;) I want to let you know that when buying anything there one pays at least from triple up to ten times more than one should! That is the truth but it doesn't mean that we have to pay so much. When I came to China I was transferring ever...
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Monika F. posted an article on My Trip To China - Feb 3, 2009, 6:46 am
One of our goals of coming to China was a trip to Harbin city which is the capital of the Heilongjiang Province in Northeast China. Harbin is one of the sources of ice and snow culture in the world. It is located in Northeast China under the direct influence of the cold winter wind from...
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Monika F. posted an article on My Trip To China - Jan 26, 2009, 8:06 am
This year the Chinese New Year of Ox began on 26th of January. In Shenyang you could hear firecrackers every evening one week before that event. At my husbands home everybody was cleaning and preparing all the food and decorations such as red lanterns, papercuts and red signs with short poems which...
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Monika F. posted an article on My Trip To China - Jan 23, 2009, 8:49 am
Another thing that I wanted always see in China is the Giant Panda so Beijing Zoo was on our list. The Giant Panda (dàxióngmāo, in my translation: big bear cat) is a mammal classified in the bear family, native to central-western and southwestern China. It is easily recognized by its large...
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Monika F. posted an article on My Trip To China - Jan 20, 2009, 8:47 am
As we were staying in Beijing we wanted to visit many famous places. Unfortunately we had to choose few only among loads of sites which are worth to see over there. We picked The Temple of Heaven (天坛). In order to get there we took a subway from our hotel. We often took a subway in Beijing as...
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Monika F. posted an article on My Trip To China - Jan 16, 2009, 7:43 am
The Forbidden City in Beijing was the most impressing site I have ever seen in my life. It is vast and beautiful, and well preserved. I am not surprised that Emperors lived there. The Forbidden City was the Chinese imperial palace from the Ming Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dyansty. It was the h...
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Monika F. posted an article on My Trip To China - Jan 14, 2009, 8:40 am
In front of Badaling sector of the Great Wall After one day staying in Beijing we were asked by many people on the streets if we want to go for a trip to see The Great Wall. I was prepared to pay around 150 Yuen per person for that pleasure as I checked on internet at home but since there is winter...
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Monika F. posted an article on My Trip To China - Jan 9, 2009, 10:38 pm
Everybody knows Beijing so I don’t have to write an introduction about it :) Main goals of our trip to Beijing were getting visa to Poland, climbing Great Wall, seeing Panda and visiting Forbidden City and we had to do all those things in one week. All went well. We took a train from Shenyan...
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Monika F. posted an article on My Trip To China - Jan 1, 2009, 12:50 am
Jilin City (吉林市) is located in Jilin Province in North of China. It is famous of its big rime ice on the trees around the SonghuaRiver. The rime ice is a natural phenomenon that occurs every year during January and February. Unfortunately we haven't seen the rime ice there as we didn't go i...
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