Saturday, September 26, the girls and I decided to go on a tour. Our first stop was to the Ming Tombs. We were unable to go into the actual tombs, but we did learn all about the Ming Dynasty while there. We had a few random stops thrown into the tour that weren't supposed to be a part of it, but that's okay because we still got to see everything we wanted. The big stop of the day was The Great Wall. To get to the top of The Great Wall we took a "ski" lift which was about a 15min ride. Once to the top the views were amazing. We were able to climb, and walk around the wall for over two hours (although I could have spent a day there!) The weather was perfect, which is always a bonus! After our tour ended, we got ready to go eat some Beijing Peking Duck. The duck literally comes out whole (yes head and all) and is prepared in front of us!! It was delicious, tasted a little bit like dark turkey meat. After dinner, we headed to Oriental Plaza, which is a street market in Beijing that sells different types of food. I had the mentality of "when in China, do as the Chinese would do," so I tried some interesting foods. To start I had SCORPION on a stick (and yes, we got to pick out which live scorpion we wanted!). Don't worry though they deep fried it for us. It tasted a little bit like a crunchy burnt chip. Next we tried deep fried starfish on a stick. I thought the starfish was better than the scorpion, but Sarah disagreed with me! We also saved some room for a sweet Chinese dessert.
Entrance to Ming Dynasty Tombs
The Chinese believed that one could enter Heaven while in the presence of the tombs. So the square is the entrance to Heaven.
Me at the Great Wall.
Me at the Great Wall
One of the towers.
The Great Wall
The Great Wall
The Great Wall
The Great Wall cont'
The Great Wall cont'
Climbing up the Great Wall
The Great Wall cont'
what a view....
it just keeps going, and going, and going....
climbing down the wall.
pretty steep.
The Great Wall
Beijing Peking Duck (a Beijing delicacy)
an assortment of interesting foods to try
cockroach, grasshopper, and scorpion...yum.
live starfish and scorpions.
Entrance to Oriental Plaza
Sarah and I "pinkie swearing" that we will eat the scorpion.
right before the crunchy scorpion.
starfish.
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