Day Two: Beijing
Today I hopped on a guided tour of Tianeman Square, the Forbidden City, the Summer Palace, and the Temple of Heaven. A full day of site-seeing and a buffet lunch for $26 ain't bad. Beijing is so confusing and haphazard (and I'm so jet-lagged and disoriented) that I didn't want to risk a major headache to get to these places on my own. So I met up with 4 other people from 3 other major hotels (one 50-year old wife from Carmel, CA; one 60-year old Scottish lady; and a 30-something couple from Argentina) and we strolled the day away.
Amazingly, we all got along.
Tomorrow I hike 10K along the Great Wall and spend the night there, too!
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