Sightseeing in Beijing

Last Saturday, Muir took me to see The Forbidden City, Tianamen Square, and the Silk Market.  I'd forgotten that there isn't that much to see besides the buildings in the Forbidden City because all of the treasures inside were taken to Taiwan before the communist revolution and are now housed in the National Palace Museum in Taipei.  It doesn't take away anything from The Forbidden City's sheer size though.  It's quite impressive as far as royal palaces go.

The most entertaining part of the trip was observing the reactions of all the Chinese people who read Muir's shirt--sometimes out loud--and then burst out laughing!  It reads "Here comes the foreigner" (in Chinese, of course) on the front and "There goes the foreigner" on the back.  Muir gets all the credit for the hilarity of his shirt.  He created it himself.  It was worth just hours and hours of endless amusement.  Truly priceless.

On Sunday we strolled through the campuses of Tsinghua University and Beijing University.  Here we are in front of the East Gate of Tsinghua University.