People have been praising Beijing's new airport terminal since they remodeled for the Olympics. But that is terminal 3, the international terminal. We arrived at terminal 2, which is for domestic flights and not at all impressive. Not that it mattered. Airports all start to look the same after a while. I saw an online quiz that showed interior pictures of various international airports. I have been to half of them, but I could only identify a few.
We rented a car to go to the Great Wall. Ordinarily, you do not want to rent a car in China. It's just a bad idea all around. In most of the larger cities, like Beijing, it is so much easier to get around without a car. The subway seems to go everywhere. In addition to too much traffic and tiny roads that wind in every direction, Beijing also has a system where you can only drive in the city on certain days, depending on your license plate number. As a way to reduce traffic, the system makes sense, but I'm sure it is a royal pain if you actually live there.
Getting from the airport to our hotel was easier than I expected. It was mostly one freeway that went straight from the airport to downtown. The closer we got to the hotel, the more we had to twist and turn, but that is always easier at the end of your drive. Our flight landed at night and we had a lot of plans for the next day, so the rental car mostly sat parked. Driving around the city would have been ridiculous anyway. We saw a tiny part of the neighborhood around our hotel, but we did not want to stay out too late.
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