First Visit to Beijing, China

On May 22nd, at 4am, I arrived into Beijing International Airport. After a 12 hour flight from LAX (and this was my very first long haul international flight/trip), I was experiencing major jet lag and I just wanted to get to the hotel and get good sleep. I was traveling with my uncle, aunt and baby cousin, and after we made it through immigration/customs, we met with our tour guide.

She took us to our hotel, the DoubleTree Hilton Beijing; and told us we had the day to do what we wanted and that she would meet us the following day at 8:30am to start our tour of the capitol city of China, Beijing. We ended up spending the day exploring the area on foot and visited a couple of shopping malls. I ended up feeling very groggy and tired at noon, so I went back to my hotel and took a nap...well, 12 hours later, I woke up. So it was quite the nap, which didn't really help get my body in sync with the time difference! Stay tuned for photos of my 9-day trip in China!