Beijing hutongs

Beijing hutongs

We ventured out of our hutong and into the fray of a busy neighborhood,to find that we are in the middle of the musical instruments district. Store after store selling guitars, other stringed instruments from western violins, cellos, to ancient Chinese stringed instruments. Other stores sell brass, woodwinds, each store carrying a huge inventory of a few special items. We also learned on our way back from Olympic park that we are actually quite near where we stayed the last time we were here, just in the hutongs rather than in a big hotel overlooking them

This is a much more interesting way to travel. We have never been ones to like the views from Hiltons, and this experience confirms that sterile costs way too much in many ways. I'll upload more photos when we get home. It's too time consuming to do here.

See you all soon.