Beijing: NO Off-Season Here! Kiss Your 'Travel Experience' Goodbye.
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Isn't waiting in line part of the experience? It's a chance to see how much better everyone's lives have become, with ordinary folks now able to stroll through the imperial palace. What remarkable progress that is! You should look on the bright side of traveling; otherwise, why bother going out at all?
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All I can say is, your standards are too low.
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Is this photo from today?
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From today.
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Scrambling for tickets, waiting in lines, security checks, ID card scanning, and just endless walking... it's exhausting. The layout in the square and the Forbidden City involves all sorts of long detours.
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Even Beijing locals can't stand how dry it is here.
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Today's photo, taken outside the Meridian Gate of the Forbidden City.
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My kid's in first grade and wanted to see Tiananmen Square, which is in their textbook. After I showed them photos of all the tourists, they said they didn't want to go anymore.
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Any recommendations for small tour groups?
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They just insist on this 'commando-style' tourism, don't they? Regardless of whether the elderly can keep up or if the kids even want to go. The mentality is, the more places you cram in, the more you 'win'. Why all the pushing and shoving? Because everyone's rushing to tick off this attraction and hurry to the next one.
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You probably went on a weekend, right? It's usually not this crowded on weekdays. For the Forbidden City, if you go in through a side entrance, you can get in within half an hour.