{"id":1485,"date":"2011-07-29T02:00:41","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T06:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.budgetyourtrip.com\/blog\/?p=1485"},"modified":"2014-08-25T12:14:31","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T16:14:31","slug":"photo-friday-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.budgetyourtrip.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/photo-friday-beijing\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo Friday: Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing is a masterpiece of human culture. We spent about two weeks in the city, fell in love with it, and watched the old mix with the new. Residents bike up and down the hutong alleyways while new cars zip along the wide boulevards past rising skyscrapers. We&#8217;ve all heard that China is growing at a phenomenal pace, but you have to see it in person to fully understand the transformation.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some photos from our recent travels in this amazing city:<!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1486\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1486\" style=\"width: 680px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.budgetyourtrip.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/photo-friday-beijing\/old-and-new\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1486\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1486\" title=\"Old and New\" src=\"http:\/\/www.budgetyourtrip.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_8206-680x453.jpg\" alt=\"Beijing\" width=\"680\" height=\"453\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1486\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The old and the new, Beijing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1492\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1492\" style=\"width: 680px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.budgetyourtrip.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/photo-friday-beijing\/chinese-man\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1492\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1492\" title=\"Chinese Man\" src=\"http:\/\/www.budgetyourtrip.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_8375-680x453.jpg\" alt=\"Chinese Man\" width=\"680\" height=\"453\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1492\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In a hutong in Beijing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1490\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1490\" style=\"width: 680px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.budgetyourtrip.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/photo-friday-beijing\/cafe\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1490\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1490\" title=\"Cafe\" src=\"http:\/\/www.budgetyourtrip.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_8333-680x453.jpg\" alt=\"Beijing Hutong\" width=\"680\" height=\"453\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1490\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A cafe in a hutong alleyway in Beijing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1488\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1488\" style=\"width: 453px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.budgetyourtrip.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/photo-friday-beijing\/squid\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1488\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1488\" title=\"Squid\" src=\"http:\/\/www.budgetyourtrip.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_8248-453x680.jpg\" alt=\"Beijing Night Market\" width=\"453\" height=\"680\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1488\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">At the Night Market which is full of weird food in Beijing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1487\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1487\" style=\"width: 680px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.budgetyourtrip.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/photo-friday-beijing\/model\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1487\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1487\" title=\"Model\" src=\"http:\/\/www.budgetyourtrip.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_8219-680x453.jpg\" alt=\"Chinese Girl\" width=\"680\" height=\"453\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1487\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A model poses for a photo at the Temple of Heaven in Beijing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1491\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1491\" style=\"width: 680px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.budgetyourtrip.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/photo-friday-beijing\/the-great-wall\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1491\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1491\" title=\"The Great Wall\" src=\"http:\/\/www.budgetyourtrip.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_8353-680x453.jpg\" alt=\"The Great Wall of China near Beijing\" width=\"680\" height=\"453\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1491\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Great Wall near Beijing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1489\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1489\" style=\"width: 680px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.budgetyourtrip.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/photo-friday-beijing\/the-birds-nest\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1489\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1489\" title=\"The Bird's Nest\" src=\"http:\/\/www.budgetyourtrip.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_8283-680x453.jpg\" alt=\"Beijing Birds Nest Olympic Stadium\" width=\"680\" height=\"453\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1489\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">These two girls wanted us to take their picture jumping in front of the Olympic Stadium. They Chinese are very proud of the 2008 Olympics.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing is a masterpiece of human culture. We spent about two weeks in the city, fell in love with it, and watched the old mix with the new. Residents bike up and down the hutong alleyways while new cars zip along the wide boulevards past rising skyscrapers. We&#8217;ve all heard that China is growing at a phenomenal pace, but you have to see it in person to fully understand the transformation.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some photos from our recent travels in this amazing city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1491,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_type":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,75],"tags":[394,98,736,72,734,733,33,173,174,735],"class_list":["post-1485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photography","category-travel-stories","tag-beijing","tag-china","tag-chinese-food","tag-food","tag-great-wall","tag-hutong","tag-market","tag-photography-2","tag-photos","tag-temple-of-heaven","entry","has-media"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 13:07:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.budgetyourtrip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.budgetyourtrip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.budgetyourtrip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.budgetyourtrip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.budgetyourtrip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.budgetyourtrip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7374,"href":"https:\/\/www.budgetyourtrip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions\/7374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.budgetyourtrip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.budgetyourtrip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.budgetyourtrip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.budgetyourtrip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}