Forbidden City

What a cultured afternoon we've had here! With our tour guide Ellis we took a took trip to the Forbidden City, a walled palace build for the Chinese emperors in the 1400's. Along with their servants and families, they lived here in grandeur holding feasts, a variety of political and religious celebrations. We got to see the thrones, the bedrooms and the hall of supreme harmony- a place where the emperors would go to reflect! We saw the imperial gardens with their creatively grown trees before riding back to our hotel on a tuk tuk ...ouch. A very bumpy ride!