Beijing Capital International Airport aka: PEK, 首都国际机场

This airport is huge.

When I arrived in Beijing we had to wait for about two hours to get through immigration. For some reason the immigration line is not well laid out, like it is at other airports.

There is no real “line” to stand in to wait your turn. People just bunch up into a big mass and just sort of “squeeze out” one at a time to go through immigration.

It’s a very slow process, and very frustrating as you watch other people who came in after you did manage to make it through way ahead of you. It’s also very hot waiting in line with hundreds of other people jammed together.

The pilot of the Chinese airline I was flying on took that plane straight UP into the sky, and when we landed, it was straight DOWN.

The plane had been made for people smaller than myself and my arms did not reach the arm rests.