Day 5 - July 5
July 6th 2009 Today was another day of sightseeing that started out a little later than Saturday’s tour. We took a bus ride to the Forbidden City, also known as the Imperial Palace in the heart of Beijing. The palace was ordered to be built by Emperor Yongle (the same as the tomb we visited on Saturday) when he moved the capital from Nanjing to Beijing.
The palace has 9,999 rooms because it was believed that
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