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Blues Manor Lavender Farm Beijing Travel Guide


Looking at the lavender flowers, I was reminded how lucky I was to be blessed with such a great weather and outfit that fits perfectly the day. Thank god for the bus stop near my house (金台路口南) which brought me to the destination directly. 19 stops later, not kidding! The place is rather empty with many construction sites and sand,  so I really don't recommend any solo girl travellers to head there although there damn beautiful la.




I have encountered random strangers that drove past asking where I am heading and willing to send me off. I was genuinely scared and I walked quickly to the bus stop before an old woman came and I approached her immediately to start a conversation!! She's really nice and sheltered me with her umbrella cause it's scotching hot right now. Currently we're experience 37 degrees here!! :( Blessed day indeed.

Love the flowers. Took one home heheh.
The place is so empty!! There are so many wedding couples taking their wedding shots that day. So there's this couple damn awkward haha, everyone was watching them trying to kiss and twitch their body everywhere for the 'perfect' pose. In the end she got quite irritated and whine to stop taking photos hahahaha
This farm damn beautiful. Specially grow all kind of purple flowers.
And who say beijing is always polluted!!
There are days I can see the clear sky and it's wayyyyy too beautiful. The windmill fit the whole picture perfectly. All the pictures were taken with Iphone 6s and self timer. (Literally the best phone I have ever use in my life still, can you believe this is front camera?) The pictures look as good as DSLR. Steve Jobs You're THE MAN.

This looks I'm in europe but is just a small place to take photos and they didn't maintain it well..... What a pity actually. And then, there's area where they grew other kind of flowers. Notice the purple field? All filled with flowers :')

 Great place! Was telling myself I will definitely be back for my #budgetweddingshot 
Like I just rent a gown and that's it. HAHAHA 
 Me and proooooo! Was testing the camera and he's here so I grabbed him for picture. Can't believe he left so many bite scars on my hand and on my feet too while I'm sleeping.  But still love him anyway cause he's still a little kid but really mischievous sigh. Happy to see pro everytime I'm back home :")
And for all that wishes to come here, here's the direction and address!
But tour finish Great Wall, Forbidden city etc before coming here haha. You can pretty much see them in europe too, perhaps even more beautiful :)

北京市朝阳区金盏乡楼梓庄蓝调庄园 (Blue Manor) 8am-9pm daily
RMB60 ($13) Also, remember to bring more water ok!! Cause it will be super hot.

You can take bus 639/502 to 楼梓庄马家沟站/焦沙路走至焦沙环岛 and get down. Around 40 minutes bus ride.
　　But aiya. Just use the map I've mentioned earlier (高德地图 gao de di tu) and copy paste everything! Enjoy xx

Beijing Travel Blog: 八达岭动物世界 Badaling Wild Zoo

It was definitely one adventure travelling to Badaling Wild Zoo. Woke up at 10am and travelled to Xizhimen to catch the S2 Express bus. However when I got there, all the tickets were sold and the next timing was 3.20pm. Nooo way I'm going to take the bus because the last bus timing is at 6pm. The scary part was, if you miss the bus back to Beijing really good luck trying to hitch those expensive private cabs again :'( 

Luckily, there is a sign which states you can catch either 919 or 870 bus from one train stop away and it brings you there as well. However I almost got scammed by locals again, they pasted the wrong sideboards at areas which are not even 919 bus stop (what the hell?) and then aggressively persuading tourists to take their private taxi or car again. Thank god for the map always, I asked for directions from bus attendant and cleaners around the area to walk to the right bus stop. Then another unfortunate mistake again.
I took the wrong bus, took the express bus instead of the normal one.

I was feeling quite upset with myself for making so many mistakes today. Thank god I alighted and was able to catch the right bus afterwards. The guess what? I ALIGHTED WRONGLY SIAN
I swear the bus stop drop off point is damn misleading? The bus stop mentioned 八达岭森林公园 and I thought was the zoo fml. All the local scammers already sit there waiting for tourists like me.

There's this woman who insisted that I took the wrong way and her private "car" will bring me to the right place by the highway expressway. Apparently I panicking checked and from the map it stated that there was no need to take the highway to reach the destination. What the hell really? 
She was charging like 80RMB for a person and thats really damn expensive la. 
Reached the park and paid 90RMB for the admission ticket and 5RMB for insurance. There's insurance for your car and your life, in case anything happens. That's pretty nice but that made it compulsory for everyone who wants to enter. I bought one packet of food for 10RMB! 
Inside the packet of food have plenty of animal biscuits and I wasted all on the chickens by pouring on the floor.

YES CHICKENS LOLLLLLLL
Regretted like hell cause I could have fed it to the reindeer, horses and plenty of small pony inside. By then I went in, I was left with half packet of the food and 0.5 carrot. So I happily fed the reindeer and all swamp to me haha so cute. 
Happy girl cause I've never been so close to reindeer and they are so friendly!! Highly suspect the zoo doesn't feed the animals so that the animals will approach cars and human for food. #evil The animals really bold though, they snatch your food and grab it and walk away. 

There's even a cute black pony that followed me awhile after I played and fed it. So cute.
Paid 10RMB to feed the goats, sheeps and the pigs. Gave me a packet of carrots.
My youth cap! Walking instead of opting the bus back to the exit point. BEST DECISION EVERRRR
The ostriches that pecked my back. It's damn painful especially their beaks.

Paid extra RMB15 to see the dangerous animals! Like Lion, tiger, malaysia bear and wolves. But most of them like sleeping only the bear came out to us for food.

The goat that nibbled carrots.
The entrance of the zoo!
The sky really clear and I navigated my way through to the zoo, and well done Celine!
Taking the bus there. Long ride (around 1hour perhaps?)
Malaysia Bear that came for food!!
waiting in the enclosure van before driving off. There's this woman I chanced upon 4 times. She's really cute like she claimed we can do whatever we want since we have our insurance coverage. But it's pretty safe to travel actually.
My zoo ticket
The sheeps were really adorable. All sticking together like cotton candy hahahha
Taking photo with the glorious ostriches! I think they already kinda warn us that we can't bring our own food and fed the animals. HAHAA I THINK I DESERVED IT
Really cute zebras!!
I love this place!
This is the section where I love the most: Giraffe Feeding
You can simply opt to buy the feeding part (one stalk of leaves) for RMB10 and you can feed the giraffe! But the giraffe super aggressive and they super mean to the animal. Like they gave the giraffe those non-fresh leaves and we as tourists, bait them with freshly baked leaves. Obviously they will come and eat from us since it's fresher!

Had a hard time taking this photo cause the giraffe keep pulling the leaves stalk towards its mouth and the tongue is black in colour and looooooong. Kinda scary to witness a giraffe eating actually.
Thats all folks! If you are looking for a wild experience, I guess Badaling zoo would be more suitable and likable for you! I really enjoyed it except that the place doesn't host any pandas around. Have to go Beijing Zoo for this, but I really enjoyed my day there at Badaling Wild Zoo. 
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But don't go there for the great wall, it's damn crazily filled with tourists haha, The zoo is fine!! :) Hope you enjoyed!

Bejing Travel Blog: Great Wall of China

There's a famous great wall of china too- at Badaling Great Wall where most of the tourists will flock there especially during public holidays and it is easily accessible within Beijing itself. However, I didn't want to have my great wall pictures filled with tourists, so Jing Shan ling here I am! It was constructed under the direction of general Xu Da in 1348 during the Ming Dynasty. 

Some of the parts are rebuilt and the bricks were laid nicely while there are parts that are totally the ruins of the great wall that shows how magnificent it was. 
The ride from Beijing to Hebei Province will take approximately 2 hours one way and 13 yuan in total. You can take from Wang Jing West Subway Station and head to exit where there is a bus terminal with a big banner "Tourist bus to JinShanLing Great Wall" however note that the bus only operates one timing, 8:00 am and 3.00pm back. Therefore be sure to get there early so that you wouldn't miss your bus to the Great Wall! Was so tired the previous day that I fell asleep throughout.

That was after experiencing the hailstorm (ice cubes and rain) with my SMU friends, shivering in the cold weather of 21 degrees and all drenched. However it was a pretty good experience because I have never experience anything of such sort and thank god we stole a board that shelters us from the construction side to the place we wanted to go. And after rain, it seems like the clouds are back! Previously in Beijing there's always bad pollution and hardly you can ever see the clouds. The rain cleared the hazy sky!
And luckily, it falls on World Heritage Day and all entrances to all the heritage sites like great wall, summer palace are either free-of-charge or at half price! I didn't have much time to spare there cause I couldn't afford to miss the bus back to Beijing and pay those expensive cab taxi fares again. So, I decided to take a cable car up to save the time from hiking up and more time exploring the great wall!

By the way I realise my shoes not for trekking. Had blue blacks on my toe nails (blood clot I guess) and dealt with the pain while climbing up and with my fear of heights. It was definitely way less scarier then climbing up yun shan but the fear you have while looking down it's real.
The sky is really beautiful! Temperature is great and there are so many different kind of flowers growing at the side of the garden.
Many tourists, majority locals are here for a visit!
They were offering 20RMB for a horse photo and ride. Quite an experience actually but I would want to save it for my future trips to elsewhere where there are more gorgeous scenery!
Beautiful hills and clouds. The cable car ride cost 60RMB for both ways and I climbed on the side of the walls for a picture. Thankful for the great weather, random strangers who smiled at me :')
One of the paths that led to somewhere. Not really sure where, but really really don't have the energy to trek actually. HAHAHAHA
Gorgeous gorgeous view!
You can never get tired of the beautiful view at the peak of the mountains :)
The nicely built paths and walls.
One of the watchtowers where they spy at their enemies. At the side is Hebei Province and anothher side is Beijing! So Beijing being the capital of the city, they have to protect the 匈奴人 from attacking their city that's why this great wall is built. But how do the soldiers even run!? Some of the paths are uneven and have steep slopes, they probably fall if they run too quick. It's quite sad that most of them have to leave their hometown to built this.

The place is also known as the longest cemetery on earth because so many people died building this. Just imagine hanging on ropes or 'built ladders' to cover the bricks with layers of cements. Reportedly the wall cost the lives of one million people.
The remaining ruins of the great wall. Recently it was also reported that parts of the wall resurfaced from the ocean! You can view this if you are interested: click here!
They actually informed tourists to caution, where the ruined parts of great wall ahead. Quite cute!!
More scenery of the great wall. I realise most people are really really friendly to help you take photographs or offer to help! Like I've seen people asking and I've asked while on travel to places and they are really friendly. Used to worry whether they'll steal my phone.......
Part of the ruins again.
And that's the end of the trip! The fun part of being a local here is always taking their buses, subways to travel at your own leisure time and exploring the places. But I'm honestly honestly homesick now. I miss home so much especially my bed.
So be sure to head Jing San Ling instead of Baidaling if you don't wish to have your pictures spam with tourists or stucked in the middle. I actually went there when I was in secondary school! It was okay except everywhere was people, guides with tour flags and many many gift shops and locals trying their best to ask you to join their tours.

see what I mean. HAHAHAHAHA hope you enjoy it!


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Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Steve Jobs

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Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. But things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.

D.H Lawrence

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“We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free.”

Kavita Ramdas

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