http://beijingcream.com/2012/10/picture-of-the-day-holiday-week-at-the-gate-of-heavenly-peace/ A Dollop of China Tue, 22 Jan 2019 17:42:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://beijingcream.com/2012/10/picture-of-the-day-holiday-week-at-the-gate-of-heavenly-peace/#comment-64046 Thu, 04 Oct 2012 00:40:19 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=5564#comment-64046 I took my visiting parents to the Forbidden City on October 2nd a couple of years ago. WORST DECISION EVER! Both were on their 2nd day in the country close to having heart attacks upon their first real experience with the sheer ridiculousness of Chinese tourism and the full reality of what a country of 1.3 billion people really means…

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