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27 January, 2004

We spent the last day in Beijing. I'd been hoping to go to the Forbidden City - I really enjoyed that last time I came to Beijing - but we didn't. We visited the Imperial City Museum, though, which was almost as good. It was in a little park. It was all very picturesque, very peaceful.


 museum

After lunch we spent about ten minutes in Tiananmen Square.

Tiananmen Square

And then we went to see the Millenium Monument. If you've never seen it, it's a cool thing to see - the building is an enormous sundial. The entire top of the building, tons and tons of concrete, spins slowly around, and inside the monument itself is a wall carving depicting the history of China from farming villages, all the way through the emperors to Chairman Mao. It's quite something.


 wall
 needle

Outside the monument is a walkway with (I guess) 2000 tiles. Each has the great events of a year on it - from 2000, nearest the monument, all the way into the distance.
tiles walkway

By then it was late afternoon, almost sunset. We had an early dinner, and then went to the airport. And that was the end of the trip - I was really rather sad to have to go!

Beijing


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The decorative pattern used for the top corners was copied from a window frame.
The tree background is from a photograph I took on the train from Harbin to Beijing.