Tienanmen Square 2010

On our first day in China we hit up Tienanmen Square, which is infamous for the 1989 protests and massacre, and it was a relatively calm actually being in the square. Getting into the square was quite the experience though, and also proved Big Brother was always watching.

So when we entered the square we had to go through metal detectors plus a security sweet of our bags, and this was after already going through metal detectors and a security sweet upon entering the subway. I'd have taken a photo, if I thought that it wouldn't have been confiscated. (This is not what I was after since it was only our first day in China.)

Big brother watches at all times as you can see with the Cameras above each of these lampposts inside the square:



Here are some of the other views from the square, which was a lot bigger than this really shows, but then we were in a hurry to see the Forbidden City. (A post on that is coming soon!)