The Forbidden City was the first place to visit and really hit home that I was in the motherland. The two words that came to me as I walked under the second or third arch way after seeing Chairman Mao's portrait for the first time in person.
You walk forever and forever, past each building and you will find another 100 (yes that is a hundred). I spent a good 3 hours wandering around the Son of Heavens home, I could have spent another 3 there taking pictures. With the exception of being able to see it in person, the most content I get out of walking around the place is that for the 60 yuan people pay to get in. For something the Son of Heaven taxed ridiculous amounts of money from the average Chinese person over 600 years to build it, at least this money goes back to the people.
On a side note, that day I got to try a Chinese kebab for the first time, in fact its a turkish style kebab , once cooked the chef sprinkles some extra spiciness onto it. So nice I went to a supermarket to buy the same spicy sprinkles.
Hope you see it too my beautiful eggs
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