Beijing, Forbidden City and Food Market. 9 million bicycles in Beijing!

Here are just a few of them. They are everywhere ringing their bells as they whizz past you!

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Beijing, Forbidden City and Food Market.

September 30th 2007
Spent a week in Beijing, our longest stop on our trip so far. We visited temples, tourist sites including the Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven, eating snakes and scorpions and the famous Peking duck, survived riding bikes, rickshaws and squashing on buses with busy commuters. The blog entries are split up as we have so many photos! Our first hostel had a Moon party, to celebrate the Moon fest ... read more

Asia » China » Beijing

For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more

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