Is it really the End??

Well, No. At least, not yet.

We came back to Beijing, our last and really final stop on the trip map. Since we're already paid the city a 5 days visit in the beginning of this voyage, we decided to dedicate the next 4 days just to relaxing, and more important - for SHOPPING!!

We got to Beijing after a 22 hours long train ride, in the least expensive class of the non air-conditioned, very very local-people's train, from Shanghai. It was an educational experience, to spend the "night" in a train full of Chinese people on thier way to their capital to celebrate the nation's birthday week. One can't really grasp the complete meaning of the term "full" untill one gets to China. These people aren't kidding, when they want to fill up a train they do it untill there's no room to get from your seat to the window next to you. Nirit went to the toilet in the middle of the night, almost got lost on the way, and got back after 1 hour. Since it was the slowest train to Beijing it stopped in no less than 20 stops during the trip, most of them during the night, and the people, and their numerous bags, just kept on flowing in. Watching them stand in long lines on the stations' platforms, running as hard as they can, thinking they could get a little space for themselves and their huge bags of potatos or something, we didn't know whether to laugh at them or to cry for them. Since we took the cheapest class, which is called (quite rightfully) "hard seat", a hard seat kind of night is exactly what we got. Let's just say that the phrase "i got a chair's shape" gets a whole new meaning after such a night. They don't even bother to turn off the lights during the night, and instead they just keep selling MANA CHAMA throughout the night. The chinese people, by the way, really like MANA CHAMA and they eat it constantly, usually accompanied by several sorts of porks, especially the looks-like-a-space-food pork, which is a chunk of pork meat vaccumed into a silver wrap.

After this 22 hours ride we got back here, and the it felt great. It's good to come back to a place you already know. It's almost as getting back home (almost). We were thrilled to find out that the weather got much better than 2 months ago, and somebody even made the impossible and turned on the blue sky. It's much less humid now, and a little bit cooler, so we're really glad to come back and have a fine last taste of this city.