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| Tianamen Square, entry to Forbidden City |
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| Chinese people love to take pictures with westerns :P |
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| Railway Museum, French style |
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If Shanghai is the cosmopolitan city in China, Beijing is the historical and monumental one. Emperors and kingdoms History lives together with the Mao's Comunist heritage, creating a really interesting cultural city. You can feel how the city is fighting between its Past and its Future...and rarely you can identify which is its Present time.
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| Opera actor getting ready for the show |
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| Amazing Pekin Opera show we attended |
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| Mao and Me |
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| With Annie, our guide to the Great Wall |
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| 2008 Olympic Stadium |
El Templo del cielo y la Ciudad Prohibida / Heaven Temple & Forbidden City
Tan sólo los emperadores, su familia, la guardia real y las concubinas de la corte tenían permiso para entrar a la ciudad, durante más de 500 años.
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Only Emperors, royal family, royal army and royal concubines were allowed to get into the city for 500 years.
La Gran Muralla / The Great Wall
Es tan impresionante como esperábamos a pesar de ser un gran centro turístico: 6.000km de muro, 600 de ellos sólo en Beijing.
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It is as impresive as we though, although it is a really touristic hotspot: 6000km of wall, 600 of them only in Beijing
Los Callejones de Beijing o 'Hutongs' / Beijing old alleys, called 'Hutong'
Boutiques y restaurantes se mezclan con templos y casas de té en este conjunto arquitectónico tradicional de la ciudad. Precioso.
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| We found Spanish churros in Beijing!! :) |
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New boutiques and restaurants live along with temples and Tea houses in this lovely architechtonical treasure.
El tiempo de Beijing / Beijing Weather
Junto a la polución en el aire y que sólo vimos el sol un día (a pesar de que estaba ahí, detrás del humo), la ciudad nos despidió a las 5 de la madrugada cuando íbamos a coger el avión para Tokyo...así!
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Besides the pollution and that we only saw the sun one day (but it was there, behind the dust!), the city said good bye to us at 5AM when we had to take the flight to Toky...like this!!
