Travelog for: GiGi Giraffe

Hi mum,

Something isn't going that well today.
We were about to visit the National Museum but when we got to the entrance of the museum, our companion Amy suddenly realized that she forgot her ID at home. Ummmmm...that's not good news. The guard won't let us get inside without ID card. So we can just change the former plan.
At least we captured these dragon heads.

Love
GiGi

Dear mum,

Our next stop is the Tiananmen tower. 
It took us a while to cross the Changan Ave, sure we walked through the underpass again and we needed to wait in line to pass the security check.
But it's worth waiting after all.

Love
GiGi

Hey mum,

We can't visit the National Museum today, so we decided to go for a walk outside the Forbidden City and have a look at a corner tower.
The first photo is the National Theater we visited a few hours before.
Do you think it looks like a giant metal egg?

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GiGi

Hi mum,

Walked through Changan Ave and then turned right to the Beichangjie (jie means street in Chinese) we saw this gorgeous building at the east side of the street! The tablet on the wall indicates that this is a very valuable historic site.
Unfortunately we can't visit inside, it's not open to the public.

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GiGi

Hello mum,

I took the photo below when I was waiting for the traffic lights.
The white tower behind me is White Dagoba on Qionghua Island in Beihai Park.
It's a buddhist building which was built to honour the visit of the 5th Dalai Lama in 1651.
Maybe I could move closer to have a look at it next time.
Now we have to keep moving.

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GiGi

Dear mum,

We finally made it to the corner tower!
Mia said it is the northwest corner tower of the Forbidden City. There are four of them in total.
I took a photo with Crabs, haha we love that photo.
Here are some info I found online:

Hi mum,

After the corner tower we went to the northern gate of the Forbidden City.
There is a hill nearby the gate. If we get to the top of the hill, the official name is Jingshan Park, we could have a birds' eye view to see further of inner Beijing. But we were going to catch a bus to get to the Gulou, so we could climb that hill next time. Some info about the Gate of Divine Might:

Hey mum,

We took a very quick snapshot with a lovely newsstand before we got on the bus.
There were an awful lot of passengers on bus No. 5. 
Seriously I can hardly breath!

Love
GiGi

Dear mum,

Walked along Gulou west street and then turned left, I found myself in a Hutong area.
The red sign on the wall indicates here is Dashibei Hutong, there is a Xiaoshibei Hutong nearby. These two hutongs used to be a whole one called Shibei Hutong and they were separated at the beginning of 1900s. The longer one's turned to be Dashibei Hutong since then.
Ummmm...interesting

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GiGi

Dear mum,

Here we arrived at Shichahai area.
Hai is the sea in Chinese, but it is actually a big lake consisting of three lakes to the north of the Forbidden City, another historic site on the top of must visit in Beijing list. Mia said she usually go skating here in winter when the lake is frozen. It would be a lot of fun!
I heard my heart break when I saw the lake. It's not frozen yet or it started unfreezing.
Ok it's true that the winter here is quite warm. You see today is up to 12c, spring is coming! It means green, bees and tons and tons of flowers. I can actually take more colorful photos, you know winter is a bit pale. Actually I will be with Anna in Poland then.
The second photo is me on Yinding Bridge.

It's almost 6:00 pm, the sun is in a rush to go home, it's time for us to go home too.
Love
GiGi

Happy birthday Eliott!

Hi mum,

Here I came to a street named Yandaixiejie, we found an unique Postoffice.
It has a real mail box and a statue of a boy in Qing Dynasty at the entrance.  It looks like a historic site, I will go inside to take a look.

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GiGi

Hey mum,

Here I got to the postoffice which is called Daqing Postoffice. It's actually  a retro site looks like the postoffice more than 100 years ago. I saw some unique stamp marks people used to use before in Qing Dynasty.
I heard we are about to go visit a secret voyager and spend Chinese New Year together. That will be a lot of fun!

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GiGi

Hi mum,

I'm at Simão IV's home. He invited me to visit him during the Chinese Lunar New Year!
Haha me and Crabs were riding a pottery horse. It was funny.

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GiGi

Dolly said Simão's grand is preparing for New Year's eve feast.
Eliott and I can't wait to take a look at kitchen.