Travel from Zhangjiakou / Wangfujing Street in Beijing / Train to Shanghai

Today was mostly a travel day with a small stop in Beijing on the way to Shanghai. Unfortunately, it was the last day we traveled with Mr. Wong, our trusty bus driver over the last week of the trip. Luckily, my room had hot water in Zhangjiakou so I didn’t need to shower once we got to Beijing. A group of us went to a mall on Wangfujing Street and tried green tea shakes at Dairy Queen (per Darcy’s recommendation) and they were really good. After that we enjoyed the free time and walked around the pedestrian area looking at exotic foods like seahorses and scorpions (we weren’t brave enough to try any, but Fei did). We rounded out our time with a visit to a small market to barter for more souvenirs – not quite as good of prices as the Pearl Market, but still pretty cheap nonetheless. After a few hours we all met up and headed to the train station for an overnight trip to Shanghai.