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June 23, 2007
Thanks to your help we found the guest house and spent two fine nights
there, climbing the wall to one side on the first day, and to the other
across to Jinshanling on the second day. It was a great experience - my
boy found it the most exciting one on our trip.
July
4, 2007
We actually ended up doing this with a group of four of us. It was a
great trip, and Mr. Liu was extremely nice. It was some of the best
food I have had in China so far! The three people I brought said it was
a very memorable experience and are very happy they went. Mr. Liu was
also extremely happy, as his wife had just given birth to their child
eight days before we were there. After we got back, some of our
classmates heard about the great experience, and I called and arranged
for a group of three more girls to go and spend the night this past
weekend. They got back and said it was a lot of fun. They woke up at
3:30a.m. to go watch the sunrise from Wang Jing Lou. We all appreciate
your help and your web page very much, as it would have been much
harder to find and arrange without your help. I plan on going back
someday.
July
18, 2007
I'm emailing you about the Dongpo Guest House you set up a web page
for. I wanted to thank you for providing such detailed information!
Your website was a lot of help to my friends and I in our trip to
Simatai. My two friends and I are from the University of Florida
studying our 3rd year Chinese at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Just
last weekend, after a friend had gone to Dongpo and raved about it, we
hopped a bus from Beijing to Miyun and then a taxi to Simatai. We had
an absolutely incredible time. As our friend and your website
suggested, we generously partook of the AMAZING food, as well as the
guest house itself. Sleeping next to the Great Wall was an experience
I'll never forget! The best part of the journey, however, had to be
when the owner's father, at 3:30AM, took us up to the highest watch
tower through the mountains to see the sunrise. While we didn't have a
sun that morning, coming up IN a cloud and watching it pour over and
reveal the wall was unbelievable.
By the way, the owner, Mr. Liu sends his regards! He was anxious to
know if we had seen your website and when we told him
that yes, in fact, we had read it throughly, he was extremely excited.
He raved about you and told us that unfortunately you had returned to
the US to work but he hoped you would come back soon. Also, a couple of
weeks ago his wife gave birth to their first son! He is ecstatic. I was
impressed by his business sense. He really hopes that his small hostel
can attract a large foreign audience, and personally, I think if it
gets enough attention, it absolutely can. That was the best food I've
tasted in Beijing.
I just wanted to let you know how amazing we found the Dongpo guest
house. Thank you once again for your website!
July
25, 2007
What an amazing place and such a hospitable man. We shared photos of
our adventure with him and he cooked us the best food. We were also
blessed with a magical lightning storm. Thanks for sharing your little
secret hideaway with us.
August
13, 2007
Now we have returned from a wonderful journey to China. We are very
gratefully about your help. We found the little guest house and got
contact to the taxi driver, you recommended to us – just perfect. The
people in the guest house asked us to bring the best regards from them
to you. PS: We had your favourite choice in the menu carte, Sweet and
sour chicken, and YES, it’s good!!
Scandinavians are welcome to contact this reference, Minna & Eigil:
kallekat@mail.dk
August
21, 2007
I'm just sending you some pictures from our visit to the guest
house. Promise you the Wall was an absolute highlight on our trip
through China. We came in the afternoon, watched the sunset and the
next morning we left at seven o’clock and walked to Jinshanling. Only
at the end of our hike we met a few tourists; just what we needed –
some time away from all the crowded sightseeing’s.
Leo and his wife were just as friendly as one could imagine and the
view from their place was indescribable. We actually ended up having a
feast with Leo and four of his friends – what an experience! We hardly
knew a word of Chinese and all they knew in English was: CHEERS! Great
fun!!
By the way, they’ve got a child now - about 50 days old. The cutest
little thing ;o)
Thanks again for the website – hope more people (but not too many) will
find their way to the guest house! –cool place!
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