Date: 2018-10-05 to 2018-10-12

Beijing was quite a surprise to me, because I heard really bad things about air quality and pollution there. But I stayed there for one week and hat clear sunny weather – no smog. The cars in the city looked very modern.

I lived there in a hotel in the middle of the hutongs. I expected to see a lot of poor people there, but most people living there nowadays count more to middle class. Some streets in the hutongs are becoming more and more a tourist attraction with a lit of food shops, restaurants and small tourist shops.

On 6th of October the last day of “National day” I went to forbidden city and summer palace. But even the tickets of forbidden city where sold out. So  I took some pictures of it from a park with a hill in the north of it. In summer palace too where many people, so that taking pictures of some spots was quite hard.

Later this week it was a little bit better, so I went back to the Forbidden City on Wednesday. Still many people, but it was really great to see all the small palaces and squares.

Beijing has several big parks and palaces, so I visited too Tiantan park with the Temple of Good Harvest, one interesting Temple of Confucius, where they had an exhibition too about his life and work.