Talk:NoisebridgeChinaTrip2
Preliminary Itinerary for Noisebridge China Trip 2:
3-April-2012 -- Leave home in NA or EU for Hong Kong
4-April-2012 -- Meet in Hong Kong
4-April to 8-April -- Hong Kong
8-April to 11-April -- Shenzhen
11-April to 17-April -- Shanghai
17-April to 24-April -- Beijing
24-April-2012 -- Fly home (arrive NA or EU on 24-April)
Cost estimate for China trip:
airplane to/from China: $700 to $900
HK-SZ: $50
SZ-Shanghai: $100
Shanghai-Beijing: $100
4 nights in HK: $100
3 nights in SZ: $75
6 nights in Shanghai: $150
7 nights in Beijing: $175
20 days of food: $330
You'll probably want a bit of money for playing, and souvenirs, too ($100 to $300?). But the above adds up to $1,080, plus air fare to/from China.
Stephen Balaban suggests:
- Eat Jian Bing - buy them from the street (they are egg crepes that
are great for breakfast)
- Go to ZhongGuanCun 中关村, this is technology heaven and is not far from 798
- Go to 798 and check out the Yuanfen~Flow incubator
- Stop by a Beijing Linux Users Group (BLUG) meeting -- Peter Junge
<peter.junge *at* beijinglug *dot* org> & Ollo "Barcode" barcode
<barcode *at* beijinglug *dot* org> are great guys
- I thoroughly enjoyed simply walking around and finding a park early
in the morning or later in the afternoon and just hanging out with old
people doing tai chi and water-brush calligraphy if I wanted to relax
Peter, of the Beijing Int'l Film Fest recommends (in Beijing):
- meet Matthew Gao Hong Wei and see his exhibit at Central Academy of Fine Arts
- digital media lab at Central Academy of Fine Arts
- Veggie Table vegan restaurant
- Beijing International Film Festival
Here's info on getting from Hong Kong to our hotel in Shenzhen:
Start from Mong-kok Station in Hong Kong, and go to Donghua Hotel:
trains from Mong-kok to Donghua Hotel
More info from Donghua Hotel website.:
Donghua Hotel website
(Thanks to Seeed Studio for booking this hotel for us.)
Proposed itinerary for Shanghai:
Apr. 11th - arrival, presentation at XinCheJian Open House@7pm
Apr. 12th - Etonnet visit?
Apr. 13th - presentation/workshop at Ningbo Toyhouse (will take all day)
Apr. 14th - electronics mall visit@9am, workshops at XinCheJian@2pm
Apr. 15th - XinCheJian roboracing@2pm
Apr. 16th - presentation/workshop at Hangzhou Onioncapsule (will take all day)
Apr. 17th - electronics mall visit? sightseeing? going to Beijing.
Mike Zhao is only available for us to visit Etonnet in Shanghai on 15-April
Mike Zhao gets to Shanghai on 13-April, 5:25pm, United Airlines UA857
Mike will be in Beijing on 18-April or 19-April.
Mike leaves Beijing on 24-April, 12:00pm, United Airlines UA888
Info on hotel in Beijing -- called "Sitting on the City Walls":
Check in on 16-April, check out on 24-April
Sitting on the City Walls (Beijing) Courtyard House
Add: No.57, NianZi HuTong, JingShanHouJie, DongCheng District,Beijing
100009. P.R.C
城墙客栈
北京市东城区景山后街碾子胡同57号.
(景山后街中石化化加油站往东30米,胡同口为"全民健身乐园")
Rachel & Rick own the place, and this is their email: beijingcitywalls@yahoo.cn
Sitting on the City Walls' website