Tiananmen Square is located right next to the Forbidden City and just about every tour group to Beijing visits here. The square is not that impressive to me but it has a long history...much of which is censored by the government (shhhh...). The Maosoleum is in the middle of the square and in my opinion is kind of creepy. The lines get really long (and it seems like none of the chinese people in line have ever seen white people because they all took pictures of us). When you walk in it's just a bunch of flowers...unassuming right? Go into the next room and Mao's body is lying in repose. Well they say it is his actually body but i'm not completely convinced since he died over 30 years ago. You can go and make you own judgment about it. Anyways, go with a guide if you want to go to the Maosoleum since you aren't allowed to take anything in with you and you can leave them with your belongings.
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