…The Forbidden City is the best place ever for a good game of hide and seek. And that’s pretty much what we did for our visit.

(It’s also the geographic Center of Beijing, comprises almost 1000 buildings on 180 acres [72 ha] took a million workers to build, and was home to the Emperors from about 1400 a.d. onwards – Ming and Qing dynasties. Known to many Westerners from the film The Last Emperor. It’s enormous and sprawling, but still manages to feel busy in public areas because of the amazing number of mostly domestic tourists. A remarkable place.)