The chinese new year is the most famous of all chinese holidays. It's like the christmas in the west when all family members eat together and have a good time. The chinese people are one of the best at using fireworks at this holiday. From morning to evening the city sounds like a war-zone with crackers and rockets going of in all directions. I was woken up in the morning around 8 a'clock because some people were sending up those BOOM BOOM things next to my balcony...Luckily it's only 10 days a year :)
For the new years eve we went to this really luxurious SPA just in the outskirts of Beijing. They had great food and HOT Springs! We started by exercising a little with this Tandem/Tridem? bike and all the chinese were looking at us laughing seeing 3 white guys on a bike. After our very intence bikeride we went to enjoy the 40+ degree hot spring and enjoyed some beers followed by a terrific huge dinner. After the dinner around midnight we had a few blasters to send of into the sky. The "firecrckerbox" was seriously as big as my 37" Tv and shot out amazingly beautiful things into the sky. Pretty much everybody had stocked up with these things and after a while the ground was just covered in these used boxes and blown up firecrackers (check the ground on the picture)...Was a really great new year! Gotta love the hot springs!
Timo told me that they have a lot of Hot Springs in Japan on some mountains and you can sit in the spring and look at the mountain landscape while it's snowing and still enjoy a temperature of 40+, gotta do that in Japan (with sake)!
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