While we had a lot of work to do in our short time in Beijing, we did take a day to be tourists. We started the day with a rigorous climb up the steep, high steps of the Great Wall at Juyongguan. Only Abby and I made it to the top of the section which I feel pretty proud about. Next we headed to Tiananman Square and the Forbidden Palace. It was so cool to see all the Chinese architecture and hear the stories. While it was a gorgeous compound, the barren spaces cast a poignant melancholy of past grandeur and lost culture. The destructive sweep of the cultural revolution left little but the bones of the place.
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