Today after breakfast at the hotel we went to Jing Shan Park which is a very Chinese park just north of the Forbidden City. There were Chinese people dancing in the park and doing aerobics. The music came from big boom boxes hung on trees. We watched the dancing - it was very interesting.
We climbed up a hill in the park to a pagoda at the top. There was a fantastic view of the Forbidden City from up there and you could see the massive scale of it. We noticed that many people were staring at us. A couple tried to talk to us but we couldn't understand. Mum and I went over to the other side of the pagoda to look at the view from there and Dad kept talking to them. They said that they would like a photograph of mum and I because we were very beautiful and that Dad was very big and strong!!! We found this quite strange but amusing. Nonetheless we had our picture taken with them and the man videoed himself shaking Dad's hand. We felt famous!
This wasn't the only staring and photographing experience we had today. In the Forbidden City there were thousands of people 99% of which were Chinese. There were hardly any tourists which surprised us. During our visit a Chinese family came up to us and asked to have their photograph taken with us. He sat his son down next to me. It was another strange experience.
After the Forbidden City (which was fantastic but overcrowded) we went to Tiananmen Square. This was huge and not so crowded! We were keen to go and see Chairman Mao in his mausoleum (a place where someone dead lays) but it was closed by the time we got there.
We then went to the Temple of Heaven which is a large park with a temple in it! In the park we saw people playing kind of football keepy up thing. It was played with a sort of big, springy shuttlecock with feathers. We managed to buy one and Dad and I practised but it is a lot harder than it looks. Mum suggested that we buy one for the Sheffield United team to improve their footballing skills. Again in this park numerous families approached us for photographs. This was happening so much that when people didn't ask us for a photo Dad got offended.
We returned to the hotel to freshen up before going to an Indian Restaurant called the Taj Pavilion. It was fantastic food but the New Sangeet still holds top place for me.
Speak soon
Love from Meganxxx
Ps. This video is of the ladies dancing in Jing Shan Park
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