We woke up early to head to 圆明园 yuanmingyuan (old summer palace) and we tried out the 地铁 train. It looked pretty complicated but it was actually pretty simple and easy to understand. The ride to 圆明园 station took about 4yuan and it was about 50mins including the time needed to walk to the train station from the hostel.
Arriving there, it was already pretty crowded and we got our tickets to go into the place.
It was a lot of walking and scenic places around the palace and shops set up for us to buy souvenirs or some snacks. It was pretty cooling due to the weather but still we walked about 16km in total!
We left the place at around 3pm and went to Wangfujing which is one of the most famous shopping streets of Beijing. There were so much to see and eat. There were so much interesting street food like fried insects (mostly scorpions) to fried ice cream. The crowd was pretty crazy as well. There were so many people in the area that we were constantly brushing shoulders with passerbys. The famous quanjude duck restaurant is also located nearby but it was a pretty tiring day so we didnt had the chance to eat the duck.
The hectic day came to an end as we took the train back to our hostel.
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