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 wall stretches for thousands of kilometers, and even segmented, it is a magnificent structure.

One of the popular teas offered in many shops is a flowering tea, which starts off as a closed round ball, and opens up once in water, as this one did.

A mix of the old and new of China can be seen throughout the buildings in the horizon.

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

The inside of Tiananmen Square after going through an underground passageway.