We left Beijing on Saturday at 7am and piled onto our little autobus. I like Beijing but I had to get out, I'd been there a week and the pollution and consistent begging was hard to deal with everyday. I made sure to see as much as I could the day before leaving; Tainanamen Square, Forbidden City and the Temple of Heaven. I also managed to get a ride back to the hotel on a rickshaw. We traveled in our little bus to the Great Wall of China, it took 3hrs to get there and I kept falling asleep and hitting my head on the window. The English lads went out the night before and only managed 1 hrs sleep, one was still drunk and the other turned up wearing his skinny jeans carrying a guitar
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