Beijing - Tiananmen Square

With Saturday as Chad and Nikki’s only day for sight-seeing, we signed up for a private tour going Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City and the Great Wall. We had a pretty good tour guided who spoke English, and a driver who only got into one minor fender-bender (no injuries, happily).

We started with Tiananmen Square. It is absolutely huge, and it’s hard to reconcile the vast, empty concrete space with the atrocities that have taken place there.

Here are a couple of my photos:



Chad also had a great one of the massive portrait of Chairman Mao at the entrance to the forbidden city: