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10 taboos for sleeping on travel

Sleeping is an important factor during travel. Knowing the correct sleeping method and the taboos of sleeping, you could get a better rest during the journey and have a nice travel.

1. Don't lie on your back. When sleeping with face upwards, your tongue will fall and infect your breathing and cause snoring. If you put your hands on your breasts causing force on your heart and lung, you may have nightmare at night. The ideal sleeping pose is lying on your right and bend your knees, which could relax your muscles, enhance the circulation of the blood and breathe smoothly.
2. Don't think too much before sleep. You'd better read some newspaper or listen to some light music before going to bed.
3. Don't be drunk or too full. Eating too much before sleep may cause you digestion problem and infect your sleep. Bad circulation of the blood may cause lots of diseases.
4. Don't talk too much. Much talk may cause you too excited and hard to fall asleep.
5. No light while sleeping. Strong light always make people couldn't sleep deeply and easy to be waked up.
6. Don't cover your head while sleeping. You will breathe in too much carbon dioxide, result in breathe hard and suffocate.
7. Don't sleep with the fan blowing, and you may get a cold.
8. Don't breathe with mouth, and you may breathe in the uncleans and cause cough or infectious.
9. Don't forbear piss while sleep.
10. Don't sleep too long. Long time sleep may cause short life. The best duration is 7-8hours.

Client's information:

Mr.Simon Gibb 2008-4-22 18:02

Specific info on the "boat to the Summer Palace" in Beijing

First, the boats are 80-person dragon-painted cruise ships with a giant tub of oil on the back bench, not paddle boats with gondoliers or anything romantic like that.

There are 3 places where you can get the boat to the Summer Palace: The Beijing Exhibition Center (Beijing Zhanlan Guan), the Beijing Zoo, and Black Bamboo Park (Zizhuyuan Gongyuan). If you want to take the cruise from the Expo Center, the location is at the back (just look for the canal). The frequency of these boats is probably less than other locations, and the price was 25rmb/person in spring 2005. The boats were supposed to only be running from May to October. I have never been to the one at the zoo, but I wonder if you need to buy a ticket to the zoo in order to take the boat from here.

Unless your hotel happens to be right next to the Exhibition Center or something, I highly suggest getting a boat at Black Bamboo Park. The park is a great place to visit early in the morning to see people exercising, etc. There are not many tourists and entrance is free. After wandering around the park, you can then catch a boat to the palace. Boats bound for the palace do not go on any of the small lakes in the park, they leave from the "imperial family wharf" (Huang jia wan). They run every 30 minutes to an hour depending on the time of day, with the first one leaving shortly before the summer palace opens. Cost is Y25 one-way, Y40 return, per person (Oct 2007). A taxi from Zizhuyuan park to the Summer Palace would cost Y25 as well (but can take up to 4 people). I assume if they sell return tickets, this means you can get a one-way trip leaving from the actual summer palace as well.

The canal is lower than ground level for most of the trip, making the sites not that great. You pass the Beijing Art Museum and Wanshou Temple, and some parkland. The whole canal is well restored. I think the main advantage of the trip is that they sell and distribute your ticket to the summer palace on board the boat, and the trip ends right at Jade Belt Bridge inside the south gate of the summer palace. It''s an powerful and convenient entrance.

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Mr.Dul Woolf , United States , 2008-3-27 10:49