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| Our first meal after wandering around for 2 hours in the wrong direction - this restaurant was run by a 12yr old boy |
"Chairman mao - 99 years"
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There were only lovers and bums out at this time of night
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The best photo-ops are at 2am
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See a resemblance?
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Trying to find the same place by day, it took us 10 minutes to walk
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| Some Beijing high-rises |
This is one of the three "T's" you don't mention - Tienanmen
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Reaching a hand to the workers
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Tienanmen can be pretty lonely
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This is right after I saw Mao's gross corpse
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Remember this from Mulan, or any movie about Beijing??
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| Distractions |
Me and Mao - a match made in heaven
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Now some people are showing up
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The painting is so detailed and it goes on for miles
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These gates got higher and higher the deeper you went in
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Entering the Forbidden City
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| More Gates that I am sure you care about |
Some good engrish - They couldn't figure out why I wanted a photo
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A pretty bridge - 'nuff said
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Pretty roof
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Look familiar? I used this pic to make the icon for this page
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More detail - I think this lead to the first case of capaltunel
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I was clearly impressed
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I really wanted to see what was at the top |
Kung-fu poses
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Emperors lived here for hundreds of years
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Regular people were not allowed in...
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Thus the forbidden City
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| And no emperor wants a hand me down, so there are palaces upon palaces |
and temples upon temples
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More great engrish
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I think creeped out is the word they were looking for
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Just a little closer
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I like these dragons and phoenices
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| So here they are again |
No explanation
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This dragon looks just like Mushu
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This room was built into some cool cliffs
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I was actually trying to shoot the roof, but this pose is good too
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More of the cliff dwelling
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| This is where Jon asked somebody elses tour guide where the emperor poops |
I only looked bored
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We still wonder what this could mean
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Look at the hair - spitting images
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If they weren't already staring at us enough...
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It goes on to where you can't even go anymore
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