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In this video, a man does some kind of "exercise" outside the Forbidden City. Everyone in Beijing spends their free time outdoors doing something. We had been walking around the outside walls of the Forbidden City for quite a while looking for the entrance and we saw all kinds of people doing all kinds of things.Related Posts:
In the following videos, we attempted to find the entrance ...
In the following videos, we attempted to find the entrance ...
One of the things I remember most about trying to find the entrance to the Forbidden City was this whistler. He was passionate about what he was doing as we walked by. I didn't want to stop and gawk at him since most of the people outside in Beijing were doing something extraordinary, but this guy had a real gift!Related Posts:
In the following videos, we attempted to find the ...
In the following videos, we attempted to find the ...
One of the common scams in China involves so-called "art students". They befriend tourists and then offer them work-of-art-knock-offs. As we walk around the outer walls of the Forbidden City, people do Tai Chi in the open spaces, music plays, and we wander around trying to find an entrance gate. ...
On our first try getting into the Forbidden City, we walked all around the outer walls trying to find an entrance with fewer people cued up to go in. It just didn't make sense to us that Beijing-ers would be going to the Forbidden City en masse on a random Saturday. We thought perhaps there was a special event and that maybe the entrance to the Forbidden City was located elsewhere.In this video, we ...
On our first try getting into the Forbidden City, we arrived on a Saturday to find that the lines were really long. Confused by this, John, Jennifer, and Lydian decide to try to find the "real" entrance.Related Posts:In the following videos, we attempted to find the entrance to the Forbidden City, circumambulating the outer walls of the complex where we saw all kinds of cool thing.Beijing ...
John wants to take a selfie, Jennifer wants to figure out where they're going first. Lydian thinks the long line leads into the Forbidden City. John and Jennifer aren't sure. They decide to give it a try.Related Posts:In the following videos, we attempted to find the entrance to the Forbidden City, circumambulating the outer walls of the complex where we saw all kinds of cool thing.
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In this video, we finally find Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City. It seems simple enough when looking at a map, but in practice, finding our way to these two tourist destinations wasn't clear-cut. A lot of the other tourist attractions in Beijing were similar in terms of finding our way around. Things weren't marked well in English and when they were, they didn't make sense.Related Posts:<br ...
The entrance to the Forbidden City eluded us. Was it really that hard to find it? Probably not, but we were in denial that the super-extra-long line that we'd seen in Tiananmen Square led into the Forbidden City. For some reason, it just didn't make sense. So we wandered around the outer walls of the Forbidden City for over an hour before giving up. As it turns out, there were lots of interesting things to ...
Beijing tourist attractions aren't the most intuitive places in the world. We tried to find the entrance to the Forbidden City for several hours on a Saturday without any luck. In this video, we wander around outside of the Forbidden City where people were doing all kinds of interesting things.Related Posts:
In the following videos, we attempted to find the entrance to the Forbidden ...
In the following videos, we attempted to find the entrance to the Forbidden ...
In this video, soldiers are doing martial arts with sticks just inside the entrance gate at the Forbidden City. We watch them for a little while before heading in to see the tourist attraction.Related Posts:Related Posts:In the following videos, we attempted to find the entrance to the Forbidden City, circumambulating the outer walls of the complex where we saw all kinds of cool thing.<br ...
In this video, we make another attempt to get into the Forbidden City, this time on a weekday. The first time we visited the Forbidden City was on a Saturday and the line was incredibly long. It was still long on the weekday, but we did eventually get in on our second try.Related Posts:In the following videos, we attempted to find the entrance to the Forbidden City, circumambulating the outer walls ...
Lots of Beijing-ers asked to have their photo taken with us. It seemed strange at first, but then we kind of got onto it. After riding the subway for a few days, it became immediately apparent that there were very few other white people in Beijing. All of them stood about a foot taller than the Chinese locals on the subway. So this was probably why people wanted their photos taken with us. Because we were ...
The day after we arrived in London, we packed up our belongings and stacked the luggage outside the Holiday Inn Express hotel where we’d stayed the night before. John pulled our rental car around from the parking area and we shoved everything that we could into the trunk and whatever was left into the back seat. We were grouchy and jetlagged and hadn’t really been properly nourished for at least 48 hours. ...