Our last day with the tour started with a trip to the Forbidden City & Tiananmen Square. The city was home to the emperors between the Ming and Qing dynasties. It was built in 1406, and consists of 980 buildings and covers 180 acres!
One of the most surprising aspects about this trip was how few non-Chinese tourists there were. As you can see in the crowds of one of the biggest tourist attractions in Beijing, it's almost all Chinese tourists. Perhaps it was a result of traveling in September, when many foreign children are in school. Plus, I expect most people think of China as a hard to get into, and heavily controlled by the government. Not to mention the fact that 1.3 billion people are Chinese, so that's got to help too!
Then, it was off to the kung fu show. It was such an amazing performance that told the story of one little boy growing up to be a kung fu master.
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