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Beijing Tijananmen Square	Beijing Soldiers marching on Tijananmen Square	Beijing Red flags waving in the wind everywhere on Tijananmen Square	Beijing Tijananmen Square
Beijing - Tijananmen Square a classic sight - tour groups snapping shots with Mao in the background	Beijing fried scorpions on a skewer	Beijing Steve eating the fried scorpions on a skewer (I ate a leg)	Beijing The street of Night Food Stalls - YUM!!!
Beijing Our hostel dormitory room inside the Red Lantern Hostel	Beijing View of the Forbidden City from the top of the peak inside the Jingshen Park	Beijing Hacky Sack isn't just for the young kids.	Beijing Inside the Forbidden City
Beijing Inside the Forbidden City	Inside the Forbidden City These rocks were manually stacked around this door and way up above to form this....conglomeration	Inside the Forbidden City	Inside the Forbidden City
Inside the Forbidden City Foo Dog	Inside the Forbidden City Restoration of the Forbiddne City is in progress...can you believe how bright these colors are?	Inside the Forbidden City	Inside the Forbidden City We like the gargoyles on every rooftop on all corners. Looks like Santa being pulled on his sleigh.
Inside the Forbidden City	Inside the Forbidden City Restoration continues inside the palace complex	Inside the Forbidden City	Inside the Forbidden City Nine Dragon Wall
Inside the Forbidden City I think the Emperors of old would have enjoyed Starbucks if it had been there thousands of years ago.	Inside the Forbidden City	Inside the Forbidden City perhaps the throne where the reigning Emperor sat	Inside the Forbidden City The main pavillion is under restoration
Beijing Getting chummy with Mao	Beijing Steve defying Mao	Beijing - Hutongs entry door to a residence	Beijing - Hutongs a courtyard inside a residence
Beijing - Hutongs	Beijing - Hutongs more lucky banners for good fortune	Beijing - Hutongs typical form of transportation	Beijing - Hutongs
Beijing - Hutongs	Beijing This cute little girl couldn't help but be friendly with Steve. She kept on saying hello to him.	Beijing - Temple of Heaven Here, a dead bull would be set on fire in ceremony to entreat the gods.	Beijing - Temple of Heaven
Beijing - Temple of Heaven Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests (fir insdie imported from Oregon!)	Beijing - Temple of Heaven A vent in the side of the building. Can't find many details like this in America.	Beijing - Temple of Heaven Echo Wall - a perfect circumference of this wall allows you to perfectly hear a person talking on the other side of the wall.	Beijing - Temple of Heaven Steve playing a game with the locals. Then, these locals tried to pressure Steve into buying it (they have another set hidden under the pile of coats on the bench
Beijing At the Acrobatics Show, Steve bought us some treats to munch on....	Beijing - Acrobatics Show	Beijing - Acrobatics Show	Beijing - Red Lantern Hostel the common courtyard that every room faced toward where you can order breakfast, lunch & dinner.
Beijing - Red Lantern Hostel	Beijing - Hou Hai Lake We read that it is a daily occurence to see men going for a swim in this lake (I would say it is a polluted lake). Signs are posted around the lake to not do 4 things: No swimming, no fishing, no dumping of dirty water & no raising of poultries. We saw swimming and fishing here.	Beijing - Hou Hai Lake	Beijing - Hou Hai Lake These elderly people are quite agile
Beijing - Hou Hai Lake Another elderly park - a very popular morning place to congregate	Beijing - Drum Tower This is labeled as the biggest drum in the world.	Beijing - Hutons being demolished	Beijing - Hutongs all packed together
Beijing - Hutongs all packed together	Beijing - Bell Tower From the Drum Tower you get a good view of the Bell Tower across the way.	Beijing - Bei Hai Park The fish in this pond know where to get their food. They come in herds to fight over the crumbs thrown at them.	Beijing - Bei Hai Park
Beijing - Bei Hai Park Blue haired Buddha	Beijing - Bei Hai Park water calligraphy in the park. A usual park ritual	Beijing - Lama Temple You can smell the incense burning the moment you come out of the metro station...and it only got stronger and stronger the closer you got to the temple.	Beijing - Lama Temple
Beijing - Lama Temple a monk. We figured that he didn't like this active monastary being overrun with tourists.	Beijing - Guo Zi Jian China's 2nd largest Confucian temple	Beijing - Tianjin Bai Jiao Yuan Restaurant one of the best outlets for jiozi (ravioli-like stuffed dumplings) with all sorts of delicious fillings. Behind the glass you get to watch the elves make all the dumplings.	Beijing - Tianjin Bai Jiao Yuan Restaurant The lettuce wraps are an authentic dish after all! In our lettuce wraps we had szechwan flavored duck & vegetables.
Beijing - Dariy Queen! This Dairy Queen was a landmark in finding our hostel. We had to partake of some ice cream, don't you think? Prices are just as much as in the States.	The Great Wall Toilet stalls in men & women's bathrooms...no joke! BYOT (toilet paper - and that's for everywhere in fact)	The Great Wall	The Great Wall
The Great Wall The angled crenolations in the castle are to shoot the enemy behind protection	The Great Wall a lot of steps up and a lot of steps down, then a lot of steps up and then a lot of steps down again...	The Great Wall	The Great Wall You can see how the years have eroded away some of the towers
The Great Wall Our British friends, Dave & Matt, that stayed at our hostel...way too eager, young strapping lads	The Great Wall	The Great Wall some pretty narrow parts of the wall to scrimmage upon.	The Great Wall

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