Today we took on The Forbidden City. We walked thru a little neighborhood where
our taxi dropped us & made our way to the ticket booth [40 RMB -- $6.50]. We entered
the city & we were struck with the sheer size of the structures & large
open squares between each structure.
There were also a ton of people who are
pushy & unrelenting. Saw a group of school children on a field trip &
desperately missed Kimmy. We kept walking & walking and finally encountered
some unique structures and trees towards the back of the complex.
We meandered,
snapped pictures & saw lots of nooks. I fell in love with some carvings
attached to the eves of most the structures of several ornate dragon/lions with
the end piece being the Emperor riding a rooster.
We kept walking,
walking, walking back out of the Forbidden City & saw Tianenmen Square
across a large road. Being quite tired & hungry – We simply took a picture
from across the road.
We walked toward side street & found
a great hole-in-the-wall restaurant that had a menu in English. Nicole ordered
dumplings & I sampled for the first time & LOVED! We also had some
great fried rice with steak & green peppers. Superb meal!
Caught a cab to the Pearl Market which
highly resembled the Silk Market. The vendors
weren’t as pushy at the Pearl Market. Unfortunately, neither of us were interested
in the pearls but we did score some good deals.
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