Kyoto Travel Diary in Hot Summer Season

Kyoto Travel Diary in Hot Summer Season

journey:

Days 1 and 2: The train departs from Heyuan at 13:11 on July 27 (more than 20 minutes late), and arrives at Beijing West Railway Station at 16:32 on July 28. Find the accommodation (Huayunyuan Hotel) at the entrance of Dashilan, Qianmen. After checking in, go to Xianyukou Food Street to find a place for dinner. Both Quanjude and Juqi queued up, and then had a simple meal at an unknown restaurant. (Steam-boiled fire, mutton skewers, roast potatoes, noodles with fried sauce, fried belly, a total cost of 173 yuan) In the evening, the female classmates and children who were traveling together said they were tired and did not want to go out. My husband and I walked around Qianmen and Tiananmen Square, our feet hurt from walking, and we went back to the hotel to wash and sleep after 11 o'clock.

Day 3 (No. 29): The official Beijing tour began. After a simple breakfast (42 yuan, buns, noodles, soy milk, millet porridge) at the restaurant next to the hotel, we went to the Forbidden City on foot. Pass through Tiananmen Square and enter the Forbidden City from the Meridian Gate (purchase tickets one night in advance, a total of 330 yuan), and visit the Hall of Supreme Harmony, Hall of Preserving Harmony, Qianqing Palace, Kunning Palace, Imperial Garden, Cining Palace, Chuxiu Palace and other attractions, I visited the Treasure Hall and the Clock Hall, and purchased a self-guided explanation service for the children (60 yuan). At noon, I filled the stomachs of the children with hamburgers in the ice cellar service area (200 yuan). During the period, the nephew got lost and was delayed for more than an hour. Leave the Forbidden City from Shenwumen at two o'clock in the afternoon, take a bus to enjoy the cool and visit. After four o'clock, I went to Wangfujing area for sightseeing. I cooked mutton at Donglaishun Restaurant. The taste was good, but the price was a bit expensive. It cost 398 yuan for five people. After visiting Wangfujing Food Street in the evening, there was nothing to arouse our interest. We only bought something for the children. Take the bus back to the front door. (In other words, the food streets all over the country seem to sell the same.)

Day 4 (No. 30): Today's main destinations are the Summer Palace, Old Summer Palace and Tsinghua University. After a simple breakfast (the same location, 56 yuan), we took the subway to the Summer Palace (tickets purchased on site, 30 for adults, 15 for children, three people buy separately.). In order for the children to learn more about the history of the Summer Palace, a tour guide was hired (150 yuan). I left the Summer Palace at 1:00 p.m. to visit Peking University and Tsinghua University. Only then did I know that starting in July, Peking University and Tsinghua University implemented a reservation system for visiting. It is too late to make an instant reservation, and all the places to visit by August 6 have been reserved. I went to the west gate of Peking University to try my luck, but to no avail. The gate was crowded with tourists who also didn't make an appointment and were turned away. After lunch at a restaurant in the Ximen of Peking University (small stir-fried pork, fat beef in sour soup, dry pot tofu, winter melon soup, cost 268 yuan), take the bus to Yuanmingyuan, buy tickets on the spot (45 yuan), there is not much to see , is the park established on the ruins. Take a sightseeing bus (45 yuan) to Yuanyingtai and the Dashuifa ruins, and you have to buy additional tickets, so you didn't go in. We left Yuanmingyuan for the National Library around five o'clock. The children read books here for less than an hour before closing time. Back to the front door by car, the dinner at Quanjude was very expensive. A roast duck, plus dipping sauce and burritos, paid 15% service charge, and the total cost was 416 yuan. It felt like eating a meal of fame.

Day 5 (No. 31): Today's itinerary is the Great Wall. According to my plan, take the bus from Qianmen to Deshengmen, take bus No. 877, and climb the Great Wall to the eighth floor on foot. The cost is 52 yuan per person (32 yuan for children), and the round-trip fare and tickets are only 252 yuan. . As a result, the parents found it troublesome, so they took the No. 1 tourist bus directly at the front door, which cost 40 yuan per person for a round trip, and they were still fooled on the bus. They bought a ticket for the sightseeing cable car directly after getting off the bus. The total fare was 240 yuan, and the ticket plus the cable car was 1020 Not to mention the extra cost of 1008 yuan, the cable car goes up and down the mountain, which loses the meaning of visiting the Great Wall. Back to the front door at around 3:00 p.m., and then went to visit the National Museum. It is a pity that the museum was closed after only staying here for more than an hour. I only visited the "Road to Revival" Chinese Modern History Exhibition Hall. The dinner was eaten at an online celebrity Beijing restaurant (scallion fried lamb, mustard duck feet, spicy tripe and broccoli, a total cost of 317 yuan). On the way back to the hotel to pick up my luggage at night, I found that the famous Dashilan Commercial Street is next to the hotel, which is much more lively and interesting than Wangfujing. Unfortunately, I was in a hurry to go to the next residence, so I just strolled around. Arrive at the apartment near Shinsekai around 8:00 p.m., settle down and rest.

Day 6: Today is August 1st, Army Day. According to the arrangement for raising the flag at Tiananmen Square, on 1st, 11th, 21st and major festivals, military bands will be used to raise the flag at Tiananmen Square, and the guard of honor will be larger. Therefore, Tiananmen Square is specially arranged to participate in the flag-raising ceremony until today. The alarm clock at 2:30 in the morning, struggling to wake up from sleep, taxiing Didi (30 yuan) downstairs from the apartment building, and there was already a long queue at the security checkpoint in Tiananmen Square. After finally squeezing through the queue waiting for the flag to be raised and entering the square, it is already at the end of the first echelon, guard of honor? Can't see! Military band playing? Can't hear you! Wait until the surrounding crowd sings the national anthem before seeing the rising national flag. After the flag-raising ceremony, after taking pictures in Tiananmen Square, I walked back to the accommodation to have breakfast (93 yuan) and then went back to catch up on sleep. Woke up at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, had lunch at the old Beijing Zhajiang Noodle King downstairs (Zhajiang Noodles, fresh bamboo shoots and shredded pork, fried enema, double-skinned milk papaya, pickled vegetables, potatoes, a total of 164 yuan) and then set off to Temple of Heaven Park (package ticket 34 adults, 17 children, a total of 153 yuan), visited the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvest, Echo Wall and Circular Mound. After coming out of the south gate of Tiantan Park, I was going to go to the 798 art area that my daughter was thinking about. Because I misunderstood the navigation on the way and was far away from the subway station, it took me about an hour to get on the subway to Wangjing. After getting out of the subway station, I walked for nearly half an hour before arriving near 798, and I was already hungry. I found a restaurant on the side of the road to have dinner. I didn’t expect it to be the happiest meal I had in Beijing for so many days. It was delicious and cheap (pickled fish, Kung Pao chicken, minced meat with capers, beef brisket stewed with bamboo shoots, and packed A serving of soaked capers costs 192 yuan). After dinner, I went shopping in the 798 Art District for more than half an hour, because at night, many shops have been closed, but even in the dark, people can still feel the art, creativity and fashion of 798. It's a pity that I didn't come during the day according to the scheduled time. At about 21:30, I hurried to the subway station and returned to my residence.

Day 7 (August 2): Today's itinerary is the Science and Technology Museum and the Olympic Park. After a simple breakfast at the breakfast shop downstairs, take the subway at Chongwenmen Subway Station to the Science and Technology Museum. The science and technology museum is full of parents who bring their children here. They should be like us, wanting to cultivate children's interest and innovation awareness by visiting the science and technology museum. We mainly visited Exploration and Discovery, Technology and Life and China Light. Many projects can be experienced in person, but the queue is full of people. My parents and I can divide the work and line up. At noon, I ate fast food on the negative floor, which cost 140 yuan. After closing at 5:00 p.m., take a sightseeing bus (10 yuan per person) to the Olympic Park (actually not far away). The Bird’s Nest and Water Cube need to be lit up at night to look good, so they rest in the nearby Xin’ao Shopping Center, where the children play Played the game of pinching dolls, but I was very happy. Dinner was eaten at Xin'ao's Xiao Diao Li Soup, which is another Internet celebrity Beijing restaurant. The pear soup is actually the sugar water of our southerners. It is not bad, but the dishes, except for the green vegetables, are all thick oily red sauce, which is too heavy. Maybe this is the authentic Beijing cuisine. As southerners, we are really not used to it. The first time I didn't finish the dishes, there was a lot left. At 9 o'clock in the evening, I took the subway back to my residence in Chongwenmen.

Day 8 (August 3) is the last day in Beijing. The train at 11 o'clock in the evening. There are no specific arrangements. My parents and I are still unwilling to see the museum and want to go again to have a better look. Friends and children who were traveling said they didn't want to go. But I still persuaded my girl to go with us, after all, the opportunity is too rare. There are a lot of people, more people than last afternoon. After finally getting in, we went directly to the ancient history exhibition hall. After visiting for more than an hour, I received a call from the apartment owner, asking us to check out. He wanted to be more flexible and hand over the apartment, saying that the next batch of guests had arrived. There is no way, I finally discussed with my parents, I took the girl to continue to visit, and the parents went back to pack their luggage and check out. (Afterwards, I learned that the parents didn't leave right away, and they really couldn't let go of those treasures, so they went shopping for more than half an hour before going back.) After one o'clock in the afternoon, the girl didn't want to look any more and clamored to go back. Subway back to Chongwenmen New World. Others had already had lunch at the old Beijing Zhajiang Noodle King. We ordered hot and sour noodles at the gourmet market on the third floor of New World Department Store. It was already afternoon. It's past three. In the afternoon, the parents couldn't forget to go to Jingshan Park, but the children didn't want to go. In the end, three adults went, and the children stayed in the mall to play. It took a lot of time to wait for the bus on the road, and I only visited Jingshan Park for half an hour. Jingshan Park is not big, but you can see the entire old city of Beijing from the top of the mountain. The scenery is really good. I regret not insisting on letting the children come here. In the evening, I had dinner at Bianyifang in New World. The taste was good. The taste of the roast duck was not much different from that of Quanjude, but the price was quite different. The whole roast duck with toppings and rolls was only 198 yuan. After dinner, I bought food from the car at the New World Supermarket. I had a quarrel with the supermarket staff because of the queuing problem. I once again lamented the poor service awareness in Beijing! After nine o'clock, I rushed to Beijing West Railway Station, refunded the bus card, took the train ticket, and started to check the ticket to get on the train.

Day 9 (August 4th) The whole day was spent on the train. There should be nothing to remember, but when I woke up in the morning, I had a bad cold, and the girl had mumps. Discomfort and worry, but there is no other way but to wait until dawn to take the child to the hospital after returning home.

The running account of the 2018 summer vacation in Beijing is finished. At the end of the journey, I borrowed a colleague's divine summary as the concluding remarks: money was spent, the mood was beautiful, and the muscles and bones were tired.

Transportation in Beijing: Heyuan-Beijing: Both plane and high-speed rail have to transfer, and the price is also high in peak season. The final choice is the train. Twenty-six or seven hours, it must be a sleeper. The ticket price is not high, more than 400. But you can only grab tickets online. The tickets you grabbed when you went there were good. They were all together and had two lower berths, but all the tickets for the return journey were in the middle berth and the upper berth, which was very inconvenient.

Choosing public transportation in Beijing is not only environmentally friendly and affordable, but also convenient. Beijing's public transportation is very developed. So far, 15 subway lines have been opened, and it can be said that you can go anywhere by subway directly. The bus is also very convenient, and if you take the bus in Beijing, you can enjoy a half-price discount if you swipe your card. I haven't taken a taxi before, so I don't make an evaluation. It is recommended to apply for a bus card at the train station, airport or subway station after arriving in Beijing. There is a deposit of 20 yuan, which can be refunded when the card is returned. It is not troublesome to return the card. Except for some station windows, Beijing West Railway Station has self-service card refunds. machine.

Accommodation in Beijing: Summer vacation is the peak season for tourism in Beijing. Housing prices cannot be low, especially for houses in the second ring road, which are relatively close to scenic spots such as the Forbidden City. Not only are the prices high, but it is also hard to find a room. Before I left, I thought about booking a room online, but the economy chain hotels were fully booked, and the prices were 3 to 4 times that of ours. I also thought about booking a youth hostel. The hostel requires more than 100 beds, and almost all of them are fully booked. We can only settle for the next best thing, consider booking a homestay, the price is also very high, a 4-person room, in fact, is two 1.5-meter beds, the general price is above 600, and no extra bed is accepted. Finally, I found an apartment near Chongwenmen New World, 588 yuan, agreed to add an extra bed and an additional 50 yuan, and there was no room for the previous few nights. There is really no way, I booked a room for the last three nights here. Plan to live near Peking University and the Summer Palace for the first three nights. Later, on the train, I met a Jiangxi elder sister Ji, who said that she could go directly to the front gate to find a house. The fact is the same. There are still some hotels and B&Bs near Dashilan. Immediate check-in is still possible, but the houses are relatively tight and the environment is relatively not that good. We stayed in a hotel in Huayun Garden at the gate of Dashilan for the first three nights. The environment is not flattering. One 1.5-bed, collapsed, two 1-meter beds, one extra bed, 600 a night, dark guard, There is a musty smell, the outside is a corridor, and the sound insulation is poor. I didn't get a solid night's sleep in those three nights. Compared with this house, the apartment in Chongwenmen, who had no expectations, felt much better.

Beijing Tour: Food and Drink: For foodies, it is essential to travel to a place and taste the local cuisine. Quanjude roast duck, Donglaishun mutton, stewed braised, fried belly, fried liver, donkey rolling, fried noodles... I have heard of many famous snacks in Beijing, and I still want to taste them all here. Roast duck is eaten in Quanjude and Bianyifang, which is similar to our sliced ​​skin duck, but we only take the duck skin, while in Beijing, the whole duck skin and meat are cut into small pieces, and the duck rack can be made in the kitchen. Soup, or make it into salt and pepper flavor, or take it away directly. There is no obvious difference in taste between the two, but the price of Quanjude is much more expensive. A duck is 288, and the sauce burrito is charged separately, and there is also a service fee. It costs 412 yuan to order nothing else. I ate a duck in Bianyifang and ordered three dishes, which was only 403 yuan. In comparison, Quanjude's is too uneconomical. Dong Laishun went to eat hot-boiled mutton. The mutton was sliced ​​very thin, similar to the fat beef slices we usually buy. It tasted very good after being boiled in a copper pot with dipping sauce. The garlic sauce was very appetizing. Of course, the price of such a famous store is not cheap. We ate the stewed fire and fried belly at a restaurant next to Quanjude in Qianmen. Maybe the level of this restaurant was too low. We didn’t dare to eat it again after eating it once. It was too unpalatable. I also ordered fried noodles at this restaurant, which was not delicious. Fortunately, I was not reconciled. I ordered another order at the old Beijing King of fried noodles in Chongwenmen. . Baogan ordered a serving of Xiao Li Diao Soup. The sauce was too heavy and hard to swallow, so he basically didn't eat it. Generally speaking, Beijing cuisine is thick in oil and red sauce, with a strong taste. As southerners, it is a bit difficult for us to accept, so it is generally not highly rated. Instead, the two meals of Sichuan cuisine in Beijing received unanimous praise from everyone.

Service chapter of Beijing Tour: It is really touching to regard service as an independent article. Beijing is the political and cultural center of the country and an international metropolis. I still have high expectations for it. After all, it represents the image of the country, and I study the spirit and documents every day. But after a few days, I really can't compliment it. In Beijing during the peak summer travel season, there are security checks everywhere, and you have to queue up everywhere, enter the scenic spot, queue up; From accommodation in hotels to restaurants, from subway buses to staff in scenic spots to salespersons in supermarkets, all of them have a straight face, revealing the arrogance of Beijingers from their bones, even if they are just foreigners working in the capital. Looking at them, I thought of the salesmen in the supply and marketing cooperatives in the village when I was a child. They were so superior that I even suspected that I was still living in the era of planned economy. What impressed me the most was that in the supermarket of Chongwenmen New World Department Store, there was a huge flow of shoppers, but only a few payment channels were opened in the supermarket, and people queuing up to pay had already lined up from the exit to the entrance. Maybe there is a shift change or something, and two payment channels are closed during peak hours. No explanation was given to customers beforehand, and people who had been waiting in line for a long time and finally had their turn go to another line to re-queue, which immediately made everyone emotional. The supermarket staff not only failed to do a good job of comforting them, but also scolded the customers, and you went to the leader one by one. That kind of arrogance really made people speechless. At that time, we were very close to the departure time for the train station, so we couldn't help getting anxious and angrily reasoning with the supermarket staff. Finally, there was a person in charge who asked the cashier to continue collecting money to solve the problem. From these aspects, I feel that there is indeed a big gap between the service awareness in the Beijing area and the southern area.

Of course, not everyone is like this. The waiters at the Sichuan restaurant near 798 made us feel at home. The volunteer uncle at the Chongwenmen bus station made us feel the straightforward enthusiasm of the Beijing uncle. I wish the few enthusiastic Beijingers (collectively referred to as those who live or work in Beijing) I met were the ones who truly represented Beijing.

In addition, I also want to complain about mobile payment in Beijing. A few years ago, the national volume composition involved mobile payment, and various videos also used mobile payment as a business card of China's innovation. I thought that mobile payment in Beijing would be very convenient, but in fact it is basically not popular and very inconvenient. Buses and subways cannot use mobile payment, and many hotels, shops and restaurants do not accept mobile payment. For those of us Cantonese who are not used to using cash, it is really inconvenient. It feels that Beijing is far behind Guangdong in terms of mobile payment.

Expenditure details:

The train ticket expenditure is 2447+2216=4663 yuan;

Accommodation expenses 1800+1914=3714 yuan;

Catering expenses: breakfast 42+56+58+96+48=300 yuan;

Lunch and dinner: 173+200+398+268+416+120+214+164+192+140+217+143+403=3048 yuan;

Tickets for sightseeing cars and other expenses (excluding the Summer Palace): 330+90+1020+153+210=1803 yuan;

Other expenses (snacks, transportation, tour guides, drinks, laundry, etc.): 607+618+913=2138 yuan;

Total expenditure: 15666 yuan. The per capita is 2611 yuan.