We start at 9.00am on Wednesday morning. Got ourselves a small van for 500 yuan for the whole day (all in - car, driver, fuel, toll, etc). Beijing has 5 huge ring roads, and from the Malaysian Embassy we hit the 3rd ring road, which takes us to the toll expressway to Badaling (about 80km northwest of Beijing, where the Great Wall is nearest and at its best shape - for tourists' consumption lah). Our journey to Badaling takes almost 2 hours, with getting out of Beijing itself taking almost one hour!
A local tells me everyday 1000 new cars hit the road in Beijing, and all sorts of models are available at competitive prices - Japanese, European, American and local brands (some are blatant rip-offs of foreign designs).
