Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City
It was another hot and mostly blue sky day in Beijing. Kiera and I headed for Tiananmin Square first up with supplies (tuna and corn buns) from the Kiss 'n Bake. After a lot of walking around and taking lots of pictures with the new digital camera (which I am still getting the hang of), we ended up in the gardens next to the Forbidden City. This was a nice cool green place to recharge and relax before our assault on the city.
Twice today we had Chinese come up to us to have their picture taken with us! It was quite a novelty to be an attraction while being a tourist. I hope I was a good example of the "funny white guy" for the domestic tourists. They seemed to find us very amusing anyway.
The Forbidden City was quite impressive, though much of it was covered in scaffolding and was being restored. But there was still lots of golden tiles, cobbled squares, colourfully painted rafters and boring statistics (from the audio guide). The biggest problem was not being able to get anything decent to eat, so we were fueled through the day on a sugar high made up of Sprite, icecreams and pringles.
Finally we departed the walled city and caught the subway out to Gabe's work. We briefly gawked at a clothing market before heading to Hatsune for a fantastic (cheap) Japanese meal: agedashi tofu, tofu with mirin, seaweed salad, avocado and sweet potato maki, tuna and salmon maki, soba noodles with green tea, wasabi and raw quail egg, vegetable tempura, calamari, asparagus with roe and all washed down with miso, tea and asahi beer. Yum!
Twice today we had Chinese come up to us to have their picture taken with us! It was quite a novelty to be an attraction while being a tourist. I hope I was a good example of the "funny white guy" for the domestic tourists. They seemed to find us very amusing anyway.
The Forbidden City was quite impressive, though much of it was covered in scaffolding and was being restored. But there was still lots of golden tiles, cobbled squares, colourfully painted rafters and boring statistics (from the audio guide). The biggest problem was not being able to get anything decent to eat, so we were fueled through the day on a sugar high made up of Sprite, icecreams and pringles.
Finally we departed the walled city and caught the subway out to Gabe's work. We briefly gawked at a clothing market before heading to Hatsune for a fantastic (cheap) Japanese meal: agedashi tofu, tofu with mirin, seaweed salad, avocado and sweet potato maki, tuna and salmon maki, soba noodles with green tea, wasabi and raw quail egg, vegetable tempura, calamari, asparagus with roe and all washed down with miso, tea and asahi beer. Yum!
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