Back from Beijing

We arrived back from Beijing, China this morning.  We had a really great time seeing some of the highlights the city has from its ancient history and of course our personal highlight: Walking on the Great Wall of China.  It was nice to get away for a few days and see some new things.  We were supposed to leave early Wednesday afternoon but our flight ended up being delayed by 2 and a half hours so we didn't arrive in Beijing until late Wednesday afternoon.  Fortunately it's a very quick trip, an hour and a half or less, and our tour guide was there waiting for us.  We decided a while back when we first booked the trip that we thought we would just go ahead and book a private tour with one of the tour companies in China.  That was the best thing we could have done.  Even though our plane was delayed our tour guide was there waiting for us right outside of customs along with our private driver.  Since our plane was so late we didn't have time to do any sightseeing on Wednesday but they took us to our hotel and got us checked in.  They picked us up early the next two mornings and took us out sightseeing for those days.  Definitely the best way to go and anyone planning a trip to anywhere in China we strongly recommend China Travel Guide.  We didn't have to spend any time looking up the major sights and how to get there etc.  That's a good thing too because there's not much Google access in China!  It was so easy and nice having our own private guide tell us about things and let us go at whatever pace we wanted.  I will post about the different things we saw in the next day or so and we will start uploading pictures tonight as well.  Here are a couple...

 At the Temple of Heaven

 The Great Wall of China.  And yeah we climbed to that high point!

Outside Tiananmen Square