Photos from Beijing - Part III

The Lama Temple

Better reclaim that money...

Confucious say.....

Photos from Beijing - Part II

South ticket gate

Kid with conveniently split trousers

Nicely restored bit...

LOTs of forbidden city

No scratch! and a not so restored part

Door detail and a Large stone carving

A sensible place to sit and Cool hats!

It was blistering hot when I went to the Forbidden City, and after I had managed to walk from the first to the 3rd temples, I was starting to get an idea of how ridiculously large the place was. To be honest I was resting when I managed to find a nice bit of shade, but there was one tour group of middle-old age ladies who had obviously had enough of all the wretched walking and the blasted heat and had found a lovely bit of door frame conveniently located in a nice shady corridor which happened to channel a cooling flow of air...which just happened to be a corridor which linked one temple to the other. I watched as they sat down one by one to block the corridor in two rows...

The Garden in the North side of the Forbidden City

Photos from Beijing - Part I

A big tea pot pouring tea

Wangfujing avenue [王府井大街]

Snacks for sale
(which included some little scorpions wedged on wooden skewers...not my kind of thing)

Watermelon Lantern in Red Capital Cafe

The bar in Red Capital Cafe