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For this day we were a little further out of the city: visiting the Summer Palace of Empress Ci'Xi on our way to the Great Wall. Only our second day in the country and we were already on to our second "big" sight of the country.
Our first full day in Beijing was spent looking around the Temple of Heaven, experiencing Chinese tea traditions, and then returning to the centre of the city. From there we went through the infamous Tiananmen Square to reach the Forbidden City - the centre of Chinese power for centuries.
