Day 8: Evening at Tiananmen

It was still quite early to retire after we returned to the hotel from The Summer Palace, so we decided to stroll to Tiananmen to find out exactly where Tiananmen Parade Square (天安门广场). My father insisted that it was behind Mao Zedong's portrait while I maintained that it should be in front of his portrait.

As we found out, after asking one of the guards at Tiananmen, it was the huge area directly across the road! But well, we got to see how Tiananmen was like in the evening.

 Lights up at Tiananmen

 Incidentally, they had their flag-lowering ceremony. Thousands of people were present just to witness the flag-lowering, which was nothing to scream about. We waited for an hour for it as if it was going to be a big deal!

 A mother taking a picture of her daughter

 Old Beijing popsicle (老北京冰棒) RMB 1

We ate this almost every day. It is made of banana flavoured sugar frosting it seems even though it tasted like a normal ice-cream. It does not melt despite under the sun for hours.

It is sold at just about every tourist attractions ie. Great Wall, Summer Palace, Tiananmen.

We love it.