Beijing 2.0 -The Arrival-

On arrival we were greeted by Our china tour Guide Mr.LI. We proceed to breakfast at one restaurant near the airport. Bags were send to hotel and we officially started The Beijing China tour.

My first experience joining Malaysian tour group. Basically, a group consist of a GroupLeader ( a Malaysian who will bring your all the way through KLIA and back), a Tour guide (a Chinese, who will determine where and when to go places) and a driver!

This was our Tour Guide, Siau Li (Little Li) that's the way he wanted us to address him. According to him, he is retired and now a owner of AAA – fake bags maker and his wife is going deliver in March 2010 but due to urgency and lack of tour guide, the boss of the agency as requested him to work for this tour. It sounds true to me…

I was surprised that Volkswagen dominated China market, Volkswagen Group China (VGC) (大众汽车中国) was the first foreign car maker to start a factory in china thus a big share of the market are monopoly by them.

Motorbikes are banned in China, only handicapped person are entitle for one but electric bike are legal. Because of the cold weather, bikes' handles come with gloves...
Beijing (Peking) is a modern and clean city, its de capital of China thus become the symbol for china. Before Olympic 2008, there are aggresive movement to teach beijing citizen not to spat and throw rubbish. They must have succeed!
17 millions inhabitants... much more modern than our KL...