Strangely I felt that the Entrance (Our exit as Mr,Li The Superstitious Guy took us from back to front) to be most fascinating 0f all the scenes I had seen in the forbidden city. The shear size of the doors and the length of exits gave a "WOW" feeling. It took me about 2min to walk through that door....
At the Entrance of The Forbidden City was the famous Pix of Mao Zedong, The China God... Yes! They do worship Mao Zedong in China. As Mr.Li said, Mao Zedong is not human, He is God in China. Even his father a lecturer did worship Mao.
Right opposite of the forbidden city is the Tiananmen Square and next to it, is the China's Parliament. A Political very sensitive location, Mr.li said, few years ago one Taiwanese teenager took out a Taiwan flag for photo, causing the whole tour group to be detained by police. 
The place is big but not as big as I thought it would be. I do remember seeing Tanks in Tienanmen Square from TV about 20years ago but this places doesn't seems able to accommodate that many tanks! Security is tight, metal detector & etc...
The place is big but not as big as I thought it would be. I do remember seeing Tanks in Tienanmen Square from TV about 20years ago but this places doesn't seems able to accommodate that many tanks! Security is tight, metal detector & etc... 
Next was the National Theater, nothing special just a few photographs from the exterior. The bad side following tour is that they just wanna cover every possible areas as fast as possible. That's why as they say "Vacation = Buy Suffering"! 0nly true for Tour Group!
Next was the Temple of Heaven, the place where Emperors worship the Jade Emperor (Tau Pek Kong). The spot nearest to heaven as everyone eager to STEPs on it! Anyway, I AM NOT ONE OF THEM! Temple of Heaven is actually THREE (3) times the size of Forbidden City but most of the areas are Garden thus we only spend less than an hour there.
There are many halls in Temple of Heaven but I found the Echo Walls to be most interesting. The wall was build in a round shape, when one speak from one side, others can hear what he said all around the wall. It wasn't an intentional design but accidental effect from the roundish shape and perfect bonding of bricks. 
Up next... the acrobatic show, Magnificent Human Ability but I don't like watching this kinda show as these kids suffer a lot to achieve this and yet they earn peanuts. 
About 9pm we reached Dong Fang Hotel. 100++ years old hotel, which usually take foreigners as quest but due to Christmas season as not many westerners keen to travel thus it was open to public! We stayed here for 3days but we have no time to enjoy the facilities at all as we usually go out at 8am and reach home by 9pm! Anyway, it was just a 4stars hotel...I bought some Bananas from hawkers at the entrance of the acrobatic show for RMB20 (Wat??? I should have bought some local fruits, Banana is tropical fruite le! )
Good night...
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