The first stop on our tour of Beijing was the Indian embassy to submit our Visa applications. Think British Bureaucracy x Indian politics x Chinese form filling and you have the picture. Next stop Tienanmen square. The worlds largest square and you can see from the picture above its so large you cant see from one end to the other. No that would be the smog. Below is the entrance to the Forbidden City.
Deciding to take refuge from the smog we visited the Great Hall of the People, pictured below. Built in 1959, aside from the 10,000 seat auditorium and 5,000 seat banquet room (which we gave a miss) the Hall has 29 rooms each one dedicated to one of the provinces that make up China. The Beijing room below with a picture on the wall of the Forbidden City, painted on a sunny day.
Highlights: Chinese architecture from the 1960's
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