Mastering this chopsticks thing

Our day began with a trip to the Forbidden City which is absolutely huge! You need a good couple of days to do everything they have there and read all the information. The buildings and design was very impressive but the information side of the place was lacking. They just told you about the history of each individual building rather than the significant eras of each emperor and what took place within the walls of the City which was only opened to the public within the last 100 years. We were also very tired from a restless night sleep in the hostel so this didn't help the matter. We did have a lovely lunch though and are now getting quite use to using chopsticks. Once we summed up the energy to move on we came out another gate and stumbled across a park which had a large hill with a temple at the top on the other side of the road. It turns out the hill was created from the earth that was dug up to create the most around the Forbidden City. We climbed the many steps to the top to the see the best views of Beijing from all angles. We even stood on where marks the centre point of Beijing at the top of this hill. Inside the temple was a large golden Buddha which was being worshipped by the local people. We just sat and soaked up the view for a while before descending down the other side of the park. We did try to find a restuarant on the way back with either English on the menu or pictures but did not succeed so we ended up eating at the hostel due to tiredness of trying to find somewhere. The language barrier is a bit of qn issue. Even in the hostel wherw they speak broken English I asked for ketchup yesterday and was given chocolate sauce! We plan tomorrow to head back to the lake where we had noodles yesterday to hopefully find a better restuarant there, so fingers crossed!Lue lisää