Last night's dinner a the Great Hall of the People was impressive. Aside from being a great dinner (more on that another time), it was amazing to be inside the huge, impressive building. I took a few photos outdoors, but my camera battery has since conked out, so I'll have to wait to post them. The Great Hall of the People is across a huge boulevard from the Forbidden City and across another enormously wide boulevard from Mao's mausoleum. I wish I had time to see those sites...just from a distance, they were worth seeing.
The dinner followed an afternoon jaunt to the Great Wall, an even more impressive structure. The spot we visited is about 1-1/2 hour away by bus...but more like 2-1/2 hours return by bus in the unimaginably heavy traffice of Beijing on a Friday afternoon. Beijing is a city with 12 million people...and it's by no means the largest city in China. I'm afraid I really had little time to learn about, much less see, much more during my brief visit here, but I sampled enough to know that it is well worth seeing.
Now, I need to finish packing for my flight to Tokyo, where I'll overnight at hotel near Narita airport, then catch a flight on Sunday back to Dallas.
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