Originally Posted by
dgoedken
Thanks Jiatong and glad to hear you scored a win for your effort as well!! Congrats.
The reason I picked City Wall, was b/c it was close to Tienanmen Sq. and Forbidden City...is the JW better located for tourism?? Only other 2 things I'm looking to do while there is Great Wall and shop some firework shops (I collect firecracker label art, so any area I should go to for this around either hotels?).
-I'll go a step further than "weird"; the City Wall's location is actually quite bad (trapped in a traffic no-man's land between 2nd Ring and the train station)
-The JW isn't really great for tourism either, but the area is pleasant enough
-I didn't know it was possible to buy fireworks outside of CNY any more, but since you're looking for memorabilia, maybe that's a different ballgame