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Last thing, has anyone here been the Beijing? I want to go on a trip there sometime. I’m planning on going to the Mao Mausoleum and the national museum, any other reccomendations?
They should just call it the Maosoleum in English
makes it sound like a fun theme park attraction
Hopefully you’ve booked those ahead of time as they’re usually packed lol. You can also try the Ming Tombs, Summer Palace, Temple of Heaven, Revolutionary Military museum (has a shot down U2 plane as an exhibit).
Oh im not planning on going for a long while, at least a year. But it’ll be my first time visiting a foreign country for any serious period of time so I want to be well prepared.
I think for this visit I’d like to stick more to socialist specific places, (although I’ll try to make room for the forbidden city and stuff) so the revolutionary history museum sounds cool
That’s fair lol, the revolutionary museum has a good number of exhibits from small arms, tanks, aircraft and even some small gunboats (both captured from enemies or those that were used by the army). There’s a small lunch area where you can buy and eat some of their MREs too.
If you ever find yourself in Shanghai, there’s also the museum of the Site of the first National Congress and the old Sihang Warehouse building where soldiers made a stand against the Japanese invaders.
Yeah, I’m trying to decide if I want to spend my whole time in Bejing or split it between Beijing and Shanghai.
Also I’m genuinely so mad that I can’t go to North Korea because of Visa restrictions. That would’ve been a nice day trip. But whatever, I’ll take what I can get
I have, but I was very young at the time (around 6 years old.) We went to all kinds of temples and I even saw Mao Zedong’s tomb. I have seen Mao IRL.
I was there a couple years back on a research co-op. When I wasn’t working, I visited tiananmen square and a couple of the local tourist traps. I also took the subway out to the outer rings and looked at the new development housing and generally how people lived their lives in Beijing.