8th april arrived in Beijing with Sam at 5am just as it was starting to get light and hopped on a tube to our respective hostels. After arriving at our hostel, we hired bikes and boshed it down to the forbidden city and tian'anmen square. Neither of them really lived-up to expectations: the forbidden city (amazingly impressive though it is thinking about the story behind its construction) is just a series of seemingly endless corridors and huge squares with a fe...

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