Travel Portfolio
top Home to 24 emperors over
the course of half a millennium,
Beijing’s Forbidden City has the
best-preservedcollectionof
Chinesenationalarchitecture.
RIGHt Wandering the back streets
of Xi’an, the ancient capital of
ShaanxiProvince,canbea jolly
exhaustingbusiness.
oppoSItE A giant portrait of Mao
Zedong adorns the facade of the
Forbidden City’s Tiananmen Gate.
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