I've been in Beijing since a couple of days. The city is cleaner, much more modern than Nanjing. It reminds me of the capitals in the West. We live in a really pleasant hostel. There are always people sitting in the common room/cafe downstairs. The food here is excellent, and overall spending time in the hostel is without a doubt something that might make us prolong our stay in Beijing. So far we've seen the Summer Palace, which is probably meant to be seen in the summer. It was very pretty in the winter scene, but most likely the flowers would make seeing the Summer Palace, much more interesting. Then, yesterday we went to see the Lama Temple. It was really chilly, but the sun was shining, and I took lots of photos ^^.
And today I'm very excited to see Mao's dead body, the Tiananmen square... I just hope it'll all be open. I'm not sure because it's the New Year today, and everyone is at homes with their families.
But on such an important day why would they disable people seeing such an 'important' person?
