Friday, May 14, 2010

Crazy Beijing...

The very first thing that struck us when we arrived in Beijing was the noise! In Japan it is a very rare occurrence to hear someone using their car horn so when confronted with hundreds of cars all using them at once... it was more than a little deafening to the ears!

The second thing that stuck us was how crazy the driving was! I have seriously never seen such blatant disregard of the traffic rules! The center line means nothing, pedestrians are free game and red light-green-light-red man-green man = who cares just go, shut your eyes and hope for the best!!

In Beijing I'm pretty sure there are just as many, if not more, bikes than there are cars. I'm talking everywhere you look there is something whizzing along, ducking and diving in between cars all the while trying to dodge people trying to cross the busy roads. When we weren't preoccupied with being scared for our lives it was great fun seeing just how much one person could carry on only two wheels!