Say Good-bye to JB's eloquent descriptions and accurate imagery, not to mention all the BIG WORDS! I'm back in charge, with true blogging enthusiasm and less skill. Beijing offers some of the most famous historical sites - The Great Wall, The Ming Tombs, The Forbidden City, The Summer Palace and Tiennamen Square - of which we have been to see all. As could be expected, the visiting crowds were enormous - and this was not peak season. Large tour groups (Asian, European, North American), pushy vendors, vacationing Chinese families, guides with microphones, back packers and a few beggars present an awesome spectacle in themselves. The pictures we took of The Great Wall are as memorable for the mass of coloured umbrellas filling the width and length of the wall as the grandeur of the Great Wall
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