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A video walk through Beijing’s Forbidden City

Posted January 28th, 2010 by Sheila Scarborough

During the China 2.0 tech tour, our group had a chance to spend a little time inside the famous Forbidden City in Beijing.

Using my trusty Flip pocket video camera, I tried to capture a sense of the grandeur and enormity of the place (while grossly over-using the words “elaborate,” “enormous” and the phrase “pollution, unfortunately.”) Sorry about the lapse in my mental thesaurus.

I think you’ll be equally impressed with this fantastic cultural heritage destination (and if this whets your appetite, don’t miss a visit to the virtual Forbidden City – here’s a video about what it’s like to see it while inside the real thing.)

For those who can’t see the embedded video box below, here is the direct link to the video on YouTube.

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4 Responses to “A video walk through Beijing’s Forbidden City”

  1. Caitlin Says:
    January 28th, 2010 at 1:28 pm

    Good job, Sheila.

    Pollution looks worse than when I was there in 2003. Unfortunately. ;-)

    The head-drainage things are called gargoyles. They have them on European cathedrals too, for the same purpose. LOL.

  2. Sheila Says:
    January 28th, 2010 at 3:36 pm

    Right, I’m familiar with gargoyles – guess I was too jetlagged at the time to make the connection between a Notre Dame/cathedral feature and the Forbidden City. :)

  3. Jakarta City Says:
    February 3rd, 2010 at 9:54 am

    hi,.. I just wanna say thanks for inspiring me,. I’ll write like you do on my blog
    regards
    firman

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