Beijing Travel Story

Beijing is the capital of China which you all should know. It changes dramatically at the moment. There are old quarters torn down and new avenues are built. Everything is on a real big scale here. The big roads have 2 lanes for bicycles and 4 lanes for cars, for each direction!
And it will go on and change a lot until the olympic Games in 2008.

I was also surprised by the Forbidden city. This was also quite a stunning attraction. Once again we had great weather and the buildings looked majestic.

The forbidden City, for sure, is a must see in Beijing.
It´s really a fortified city inside another bigger city.
Temples, palaces, never ending gardens, fountains, govern buildings, chambers, houses ...
Now is plenty of art areas, museums and expositions.
The great walls are also a more than great thing. just amazing is go there and wait for the sunset, no words to describe that.
Tiananmen square and gate, the old town, the summer palace, the lama temple, the heaven temple, etc... is a never ending explanation of things to visit and do in Beijing.

For a great sights of the old city you can go to the old commercial streets and quarter south of the Forbidden city.
There are several examples of ancient architecture hard to find much longer in Beijing.