The Great Great Wall of China - was Great.We had booked on a trip - but it was more of a taxi ride with entry fees paid for us - which picked us up at 7am. LM had not been very well the past few days with a bad cough and cold, and we had been a bit doubtful about doing this trip as it was 10k walking. So we left him asleep as we got on the mini bus in his pj's and got a few funny looks from the other tourists - and words of warning from the chinese about the terr...

Bit of a lie in this morning and got off to the Forbidden City finally at 12pm. Again it was huge, and we hadn't really allowed enough time to have a good look round. Much of our time was taken up with posing for photographs for all the Chinese tourists who were queueing up to touch the golden children. We got a auto guide which really just read out the info on the boards that were around the palace. One or two interesting facts - the palace has more or less ...

Beijing is huge - everything is big - and new. And old. 1st stop was the Temple of Heaven via the bus. A huge garden with various Temples in where the Emperor would go to sacrifice a calf for a good harvest. There were a few areas where the acoustics were interesting - whispering on the circular wall. We acquired another chinese friend who - unlike everyone else thought he had to make friends with us in order to take a photo. He followed us for 30 minutes b...