So comes the last day of my planned trip through China with Imaginative Traveller. Today again was to prove a tuff one. We set out to Tinanmen Square, The Forbidden City and The Summer Palace. Tinanmen square is by far the largest square in the world encompassing the main building for China including 'The great Hall Of The People', 'Chairman Mao's Memoral Hall' and 'The Momument To The People'. Another crazy hot day made this a difficult but very interesting experience. The Forbidden City followed again let down by renovation works but still a sight to behold. The films and documentaries that I have seen on this place do it little justice, it's huge grounds and structures are facsinating. Lunch followed the a trip to the Summer Palace, by this time the group and I
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