Inside China's New Capital They Built In A Week (#206)

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National Day! Probably the most popular holiday in China, being that everyone gets a week off to go travel. Just don't make the mistake of going to Beijing during this time; it gets jam packed with visitors from the rest of the country.

...oh, shii, that's exactly where I was.

Well, best to make the most of it then. I had been to Beijing many times before, but this time I wanted to see the soul of the city: the hutong neighborhoods, the "old" Beijing, what the city was before most of it was razed to build new skyscrapers.

I also had one other sidequest: to see the "new" Beijing that was being built way out in the countryside: Xiongan. This was meant to be a new division of the capital, and with claims of it being a ghost city, I wanted to see it for myself.

But everything on this day would lead back to Tiananmen Square..

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