From Shanghai we headed straight to Beijing. By this stage, our travels in China were starting to feel like a city tour as all we seemed to be seeing was congestion and high rise buildings. Beijing is huge and already undergoing a lot of contruction and maintence in preparation for the 2008 Olympics. In fact, we even saw a massive coundown clock, counting the years, months, days, hours, minutes and seconds until the olympics starts! It was great to see Thomas again and he was very hospitable. I would also count Beijing to be one of the main highlights for me for the number of historical and world renowned places there are to visit. We only had four days... but then we only had a month in China. Will have to go again for sure. I
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