Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Panjiayuan Market & the Forbidden City

At Panjiayuan Weekend Market, you could buy almost anything; old coins and more or less fake pearls, antique ceramics and furniture, fabric and clothes from all kinds of minority groups, ink and stuff for calligraphy painting, huge marble sculputure, about anything old and new one can think of. My kind of heaven!

Then, after two failed attempts, I finally managed to get in to have a look at the Forbidden City. A huge amount of buildings, courtyards, more building, cortyards, Chinese-looking roofs and gold. Enormous and very impressing.

In other places, the sign would probably read "no graffity" or so. On the imperial grounds, they are obviously a little more poetic than that.

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