Sadly, our best meal in Beijing was a Shanghai based soup dumpling chain restaurant. It was very good, but the only problem was that we had to pay our own portion of this meal.

The veggies were tasty, even if slightly underseasoned.

The terrain starts to change as we left the city, almost a precursor to the sight we are about to see.

The table consisted of several types of tea, as well as tea glasses the staff of the tea house would show to us.

Interesting rock formations in the Forbidden City. This is actually a part of a rock garden located in one of the areas.

The Summer Palace has an extremely scenic view, quite hard to find in Beijing.

A platoon of soldiers who patrol Tiananmen.