Greetings from Beijing

By kate on August 4th, 2004

Just a quick hello to let you know we arrived safely in Beijing yesterday evening. Our hotel is quite nice.

Today, we spent the day walking around and saw Tianamen Square and the Forbidden City / Palace Museum. We discovered a cool park near the Forbidden City that had three pagodas on top of a hill – and there was a great view all around the city from there.

Pictures:

There aren’t very many people here who speak even a little English, so we’re getting by with a lot of pointing and gesturing. We managed to have a kind of conversation with a restauranteur just by pointing to things in the language section of our guidebook.

Tomorrow, the Great Wall!