22.06.09 Dalian

On Sunday evening I went for a trip with few other exchange students. We took the night train to Dalian, which is on the tip of a peninsula on the northeast side of Beijing. We arrived there in the morning and went to our hostel to take a shower and leave our stuff there.

A beach in Dalian

After that we went for breakfast/lunch at a small restaurant near by and the food was good. We had some soup with dumplings inside and fried bread with stuffing inside. After that it was time to go to the beach. The beach wasn't a sand beach but one with small pebbles. There were some tents on the beach for people to get some shadow or something of that sort. After all, here people don't want to get tanned, so of course you need shadow. I wonder if the people should be told that it's not enough to be in the shadow, since you can even burn in the shadow.

The People's Square in Dalian

Another thing that we noticed was the fact that the beach was filled with men and there were very few women. Pretty much all the guys were really dark and wearing quite small swimming pants. We even saw one guy with string pants.... An image I'd like to forget but can't. And about weird things, we also saw this one women with a hood over her head. She was wearing a swimming suit and a white hood with holes only for the eyes and mouth.....

Dalian by night

In the evening we went for dinner in a small restaurant in downtown and the food was ok. After that it was time for some karaoke and after that a bar. The funny thing in Dalian was that there everyone things you're Russian and in Beijing all foreigners are American.