The Forbidden City

Home to 2 dynasties of emperors, the Forbidden City covers a huge area which is good because it has more visitors than anywhere we've ever been. It's full of halls, palaces and gardens and apparently even has a Starbucks (although we never came across it). We did stumble upon The Palace of Earthly Tranquility which was quite a laugh because currently it's the polar opposite of tranquil (see picture 4). There are massive pots throughout the city grounds and at some stage they were filled water to be used in the event of fire. The funny thing is that in cold weather (most of the time) the water freezes, so they had to light fires around the pots to prevent this.