798 Art district

If you are ever in Beijing, make sure to check out the Art district.  It is a bit outside of the city and not easily reached by public transportation, but it is well worth the trip.  We went with Rebecca and Tim, a british guy we met at the hostel, he had just arrived in China via the Trans-Siberian Railway.

Since it was Monday, most of the art galleries were closed, but some smaller galleries were open and the really cool stuff is the street art anyways.  Here is what we saw (click on the image to make it bigger):

Ai Wei Wei's art gallery, but it was not open. 

 

Beijing yogurt 

Tim, the british guy 

For dinner, a large group of people (mostly American, plus Tim) went out to a local restaurant and shared lots of different plates of food.  We had a blast talking and eating.  It was bittersweet since Andy and I had to catch a taxi to the airport at 2am later that night and we didn't want to leave now that we had met people we liked.  But such is the life of a traveller.

After hanging out in the common room of the hostel (we didn't want to pay for a night at the hostel when we would be getting so little sleep anyways), when 2 am rolled around we walked out to catch a taxi to the airport and thus ended our travels part 1.

Stay tuned for Travels part 2 which will start up again in the middle of August, or if we're particularly motivated we'll write a bit about our travels here in the U.S.