We took an early flight to Beijing via Hong Kong (just enough time for a drink at the pretty impressive airport before heading off to Bejing). It was late by the time our taxi reached the guest house and we were pretty impressed that we found it so easily as a lot of the reviews mentioned the difficulty in locating it. This is probably because it's called something entirely different on the website. It was really well situated just a five minute walk from Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City. It was in an area known as a hutong, which are walled houses and so are very secluded. Our own place was a room opening up onto a central and enclosed courtyard.
The next morning we wrapped up (it's cold here) and after breakfast at Grandma's Kitchen we headed along to the Forbidden City. If anyone has seen films such as The Last Emperor and Hero, you will already have some idea of what the Forbidden City is like. Huge and very impressive.
In the evening we walked down to night food market near Wangfujing Street, where we got some really good noodles and vegetable pancakes (and the woman tried to seriously overcharge us for them). We passed on the snake, giant centipede, scorpians, sea horses and sheep's penis though.
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