The temperture in Beijing is dropping like 2 degree per day since I arrived last Saturday. It is actually not too bad until it became cloudy and showering the whole day. I made a decision to go to Hohhot (capital province of Inner Mongolia) by taking the overnight train tomorrow evening. It looks like I have made a right decision to escape this depressing weather.

Nevertheless I went to The Forbidden City (aka "Old Palace Museum") today. This "museum" is actally a 5.4 square km Palace where Ming and Qing emperors stayed in (and therefore the name "Forbidden"). Nothing many tourist around maybe because of the weather? Sometime I followed some of the tourist group to get the free guiding. I spent few hours there and head up to Beijing Library to upload some of the photos to my home server.


A random day in one of the Beijing public market.



The first gate encountered in the palace



This tank was used to store water in case of fire. there are around 300 of them in the palace