{"id":74,"date":"2008-03-11T22:11:42","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T11:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/11\/white-pagoda\/"},"modified":"2008-03-14T01:39:48","modified_gmt":"2008-03-13T14:39:48","slug":"white-pagoda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/11\/white-pagoda\/","title":{"rendered":"White Pagoda"},"content":{"rendered":"

Took my time in the morning, then headed to Hue Han Lake, to see if I could find something to eat and get some money from the bank. I tried to get money yesterday before and had some issues, and today was no different. Decided to head back to the hostel and see if there was a lock on my card of some sort, but all was clear. She suggested I try a lower amount, which I did, and it worked – but I am still not sure why I couldn’t get the first amount – since it really wasn’t much. Thankfully, traveling in Beijing is quite cheap.<\/p>\n

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After getting a bit of money I headed to Bei Hei park, and had a walk around the lake, and then up to the White Pagoda. I decided I’d like to check out one of the markets (I was going into shopping withdrawls), so I headed towards the Pearl Market, but determined it was further than I thought – so I ducked through the Oriental Plaza (high end shopping mall) back to Wanfuching, and took a bus back to the hostel.<\/p>\n

Met my two roommates, Constantine (Seattle) and Magley (Ottawa). We then ended up meeting Sevey (Florida), who had been living in Taiwan for 4 years, and had just moved to Beijing. He spoke fluent mandarin, which was handy. He also knew how to play mahjong, so he taught Magley, Constantine, and myself.<\/p>\n

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After playing a few games, we decided to grab some dinner. With a fluent guide, eating was a lot easier. Sevey did the ordering, and got us some interesting dishes – pig paws, fish, chicken soup (complete with head). The meal came to about $20 Canadian for the four of us. Not too bad, but I’m going to try and eat for less tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Took my time in the morning, then headed to Hue Han Lake, to see if I could find something to eat and get some money from the bank. I tried to get money yesterday before and had some issues, and today was no different. Decided to head back to the hostel and see if there … Continue reading “White Pagoda”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beijing","category-china"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}