I Entered China's Forbidden City
I am in Beijing China and in this video I'm going to visit China's Forbidden City okay the security tells me I need to follow them I will also visit two more Super famous places and try the most famous Chinese dish but I heard that it can be quite stressful to visit famous places in China as they are usually very crowded and you need to buy tickets online days in advance please show your appointment record do you need an appointment to enter here is that really going to be the case will it still be enjoyable join me and let's explore China's capital okay and we are going to start at one of the most famous places in China at the Great Wall of China and yeah I'm just about to enter the cable car to go up to the wall is currently about- 3° so this pretty cold here as well okay cable car up to the Chinese wall anyone afraid of heights here uh let's see let's see oh pretty fast oh oh but looks beautiful now with the snow I actually feel exciting to go up here now I mean this is the Great Wall of China One of the most famous places in the world it's one of the seven wonders of of the world so this has been on my list for a long time to visit do you agree do you also feel excited to be here by the way I just met these guys here on the ground because they were looking as clueless as I was trying to find the ray friend inde is friend indeed so you are from Lebanon I'm from Lebanon bellarus uh Russia and Russia and Russia and Dubai you live in Dubai that is a much warmer than it is here now yeah in theory it is possible also to walk up here but there was a guy down there recommending us to not walk because he said it's like 3 hours oh that's it that's it already that was literally like 3 minutes yeah and yeah I actually have a mission for today so throughout the video we are going to visit Three super famous places the Great Wall is the first one and I have the goal I want to take a beautiful picture in front of all these three famous places so throughout this video I want to collect three pictures but first you have to walk quite a long tunnel here and I'm just realizing that maybe it is too foggy today to actually see the wall because I could imagine that usually you can see the wall from here already but now everything is covered in [ __ ] oh it seems to be very slippery here oh yeah this is like like ice here so you need to be careful here walking up here here it is guys the Great Wall of China and it looks very Steep and very slippery wow this is a great moment for me world famous place and now for the first time seeing it with your own eyes I love moments like this oh it looks very steep actually okay I think he said move on move on that was just a guess okay the goal is now to make it to the top of the Great Wall to admire the views and get the one picture that I want but getting up there was pretty intense and I know usually it doesn't look that steep on camera but let me tell you this is pretty steep careful yeah right look how they are going down here oh oh is this the worst day to visit the Great Wall I'm not sure check it out they're just sliding down here oh she seems to be a bit scared be careful be careful W this is great actually I think the good thing about coming on a day like this where you don't have the best visibility and it's cold it's snowing that probably reduces the amount of people here a lot cuz you can imagine a world famous place like this especially in China is often very crowded this is pretty cool although it is pretty freezing here but as long as you keep moving you actually don't really feel the cold that much oh but check it out it gets significantly more busy up there okay this is the busy part but it's not as Steep and the stairs are not as high here anymore so it seems to be a bit easier to walk hello ni where are you from oh you China from China China okay okay I from Germany are you stuck there uh yes for last 5 minutes for some reason this kind of looks like The Stairway to Heaven right because we are basically walking into the right cloud and I can't even see the end from here this is interesting look how tilted the walls are here I'm wondering if this is just because it happened over the the years of they actually build it tilted like this or if the original position was more like this you know but very interesting like keep in mind that this was built I think over 2,000 years ago so people were building it in this position and it's still standing here so many years later but yeah you need to have a little bit of patience to go up here keep in mind this is a not so good weather day imagine this in good weather conditions interesting view here oh I just met some Chinese people here who can speak German no Chinese people K Korea ah Korean people but she was just saying Danka and what was the word you said Morgan Morgan good day good morning what's that you can teach me one word in Korean one word an that's hello right yes hello ano an ano yeah you come to visit China hey China is second time second time in first time great first time no yes first time in okay okay you first time yeah yeah yeah how do you like it I'm oh I'm very interesting how about you oh it looks very nice you first time the weather is not so good today but I like it it looks still beautiful okay and it's slippery here again now you see I I have almost no goup here with my shoes yeah so here you really need to hold on here because yeah I'm literally just slipping uh slipping down here again yeah you can go sure sure sure hold on okay so this is the part that is causing the jam because it's very Steep and very slippery here so this is slowing everything down but yeah have a look behind me I think I spent over half an hour just in this part here now you can he me oh thank you so much you're welcome hold on to the rails and then you can go up here oh careful careful the boy there is deciding to go on his own and I think the dad is worried oh no I should concentrate on walking now not on talking okay this is intense here okay I both hands now yeah this is the section that slows everything down holding the jam okay so we have a tower here I think they are called Watchtower so I think what they did here is they they closed it because usually I'm pretty sure you you were able to walk through and then continue walking on the wall because yeah the the total length of the wall is uh 21,000 km stretching all around the area here and the main purpose of the wall was to protect the Chinese from the from the Mongols coming from the Northern parts in theory when the weather is clear you can probably see the wall stretching all over the mountains here to be honest I kind of enjoy it especially because of the this weather conditions you know never let the weather ruin your experience if you're in a place like this not everything has to be perfect in order to be worth seeing and yeah I just took the first picture of the day so this is the first out of the three pictures that I want to take in this video yeah so after I got the picture and admir the views a little bit it was time to head down again some people are sliding down here and check it out what food are they selling on the Great Wall of China what do you think what would you expect to be sold here it is hamburger and french fries and fried chicken and then I had it back to Beijing for the next famous place and I am now in the city center of Beijing about to visit the second out of the three famous places in this video the jaman square which is not only the largest Square in the world but also very famous place here in China you have probably seen the square before or heard about it whenever China is having like a big parade or big celebrations it's usually at this Square okay so the square should be about 100 m in front of me and there's also this famous building which we're going to have a closer look at as well and this is the main road here it seems to be a very big road I see at least 1 2 3 four lanes on each side maybe even more and then also a big part here for the bicycles and yeah as you can imagine the area around here looks very well maintained very clean but that actually is no surprise anymore for me in China you probably have seen my previous China videos as well basically every place especially the tourist places the famous places they all look very tidy and clean and wellmaintained and that is also the case of course here and there's a lot of security here this is already the third checkpoint that I have to pass okay so you do need to have an appointment SL ticket to enter the square which to my understanding you need to book at least one day in advance so yesterday my Hotel staff helped me to do that but the ticket or the appointment was free of charge for this place and yeah 1 hour later and I just visited the channan square but unfortunately I just learned that I am not allowed to film the square and put it inside a YouTube video you are allowed to film there but only for personal usage so I didn't know that before but yeah I just learned that so if you are a YouTuber coming to Bing just that you know you're not allowed to put the genan square inside a YouTube video unless that's what I have been told you have a special permit but to be honest I'm not sure how to get the permit and it's probably a lot of hassle so I am of course going to respect that I am not allowed to put that square in the YouTube video but I can tell you it wasn't very impressive Square the largest Square in the world so it was really cool to see that with my own eyes and most importantly for today's video I was able to get the second out of the three pictures for this video and yeah before we're heading now to the last place the Forbidden City I'm actually quite hungry and there's one specific dish here in Beijing that everyone who comes here has to try so let's see if I can find that and yeah some general first impression of Beijing that I have so this is now the third City I'm visiting in China in Chinese Mainland after Shanghai and after guango and to be honest also here this is a city of over 20 million people but it doesn't feel like that because the roads are not chaotic everything seems to be well organized everything looks clean and decent here so this right here is the city center but it doesn't feel like the city center of a city with over 20 million people and also here most of the cars are electric or many of them at least but I do see a difference here compared to Shanghai for example Shanghai overall seemed to be more modern everything was newer and there were more like huge skyscrapers and super modern buildings I haven't really seen that in Beijing here yet so here we have like a lot of these typical residential buildings here just walking into a random small alley and there's a there's a smell of of something being grilled in the air you know yeah okay okay okay thank you all right okay okay looks like I can eat duck here traditional hanging method Foods wood used for roasting in old Chinese country Ard but minimum order size one whole duck that might be a problem I don't think I can eat a whole duck do we have a small portion for eating the duck she was pointing to this dish right here which is one duck for one way of eat include duck pancake Duck Sauce spring onion and cucumber is that a good portion for one person this is for for one person yeah 273 pay now pay now yeah okay okay I think this is going to be a very expensive meal it was 273 unen now to be honest I think it's quite pricey but uh maybe this is a famous restaurant here so let me know in the comments if this is a normal price for this meal I feel like this is an expensive place yeah I do have this little uh translation device with me now which I have been using since I arrived in China it's called time Kettle and this uh specific model here is the T1 mini and this is actually pretty helpful like uh you saw me just speaking into it and then it translates into Chinese immediately and there's also a camera function here so in this case I don't really need it because the menu is also in English here but yeah many of the restaurants in China do not have an English menu so then I can just translate it here so I take a picture and then in this case I have put it to English so Chinese to English so get translates into English and yeah maybe you think now why don't I just use my phone for translations but yeah the thing is if you have a long travel day you're out exploring a new place it is actually pretty good if you can save the battery of your phone for as long as possible so if you constantly have to get your phone out to get translation services done that can empty the battery pretty fast so I actually like to have a separate device for that which is not using my phone's battery and also the most popular translation device that most people have on their phone is not working in China it is blocked here and you can use it if you have a VPN but I can tell you from my personal experience now that even if you have a VPN in China it's not really reliable it doesn't work 100% of the time and yeah I just don't like the feeling of being potentially stuck somewhere because I don't have a working translation device on my phone and also sometimes you don't really feel comfortable to give your phone ARR to strangers in order to speak into the device so I actually think it's pretty handy if you have an extra separate device for translation services and yeah this device currently off for 37 different languages with 88 accents and yeah you can use this device even without being connected to Wi-Fi it comes with one year free global data so even if you don't have a local SIM card or you don't have Wi-Fi you can still use it so if you traveling to a new country where you don't speak the local language I think this is a very useful device or if you have friends or family members who are going abroad soon this would also be a great gift for them I think and yeah I also have other devices available you can check it out all on their website if you would like to check it out as well you can click the link in the description okay I do have duck in front of me now I'm not sure if this is already everything I order it so we do have delicious smelling duck meat here then there some cucumbers and I'm not sure what this is actually and this is I think soy sauce and then I have the hot water here which by the way if you go into a Chinese restaurant in Germany this is one of the most popular dishes to get there okay thank you and I got a little bit of pancake as well on the side so this actually looks like a almost like a ro Shai in Malaysia thin pancakes like this oh I got a second yeah okay maybe this is a bit too much for me okay but first things first let's try the delicious duck meat okay first time trying Beijing duck in Beijing oh wow this is amazing I can already say this is the best Beijing deck I ever had the meat is so soft and tender it's almost melting on my tongue and then the outside part here it feels like this is glazed with something and it's very crispy how do I I eat this I put it inside here trying to eatat the correct local way ah you do it like this okay ah so you basically make like your own rep out of it okay thank you so much yeah this seems to be the the proper way of eating this so you roll it like a little rep basically let's try it like this oh yeah now we have all the flavors combined the fresh flavor from the vegetables together with the delicious soy sauce the delicious duck meat and then these very thin pancakes they don't really add a lot of flavor to it to be honest but the overall combination in my mouth now tastes really good and then basically use the meat to spread the the sauce on the pancake together with the cucumbers and then these uh onions okay and just like that I have done it by myself pretty easy Once you know how to do it please let me know in the comments if this is the most common way to eat it or just one way out of many ways okay I am almost done now and to be honest at the end towards the end it gets actually a little bit too oily for me the pieces here actually quite oily which is okay for me at the beginning like the first plate was totally fine but then after a while it gets a little bit too oily for me thank you very much byee okay bye-bye oh check it out I think many famous people have been here the famous movie star the famous movie star I don't really know these people but maybe some of you know actors the famous movie star oh I know this guy Jet Lee oh he has been here as well okay so I do think that I stumbled up on the very famous place by accident here maybe that explain the high price because this was the most expensive meal I ever ate in China so let me know in the comments if this is a normal price for this type of meal and you now let's check out the last place of today the Forbidden City okay and now the big moment we are going to enter the Forbidden City I'm currently walking towards the main gate and yeah we have a frozen lake here which yeah looks very cool actually very picturesque also there are many Chinese girls very nicely dressed up with traditional clothes to take pictures here yeah you see this a lot here it's funny actually all around Asia always at famous tourist attractions you always see girls nicely dressed up I remember I saw that a lot in Vietnam or in Thailand as well so you can see Asian girls really like to take beautiful pictures and yeah let me introduce you to yet another Super Famous spot here in China here we go the main entrance to the Forbidden City I think actually this is the main entrance I'm not 100% sure and wow this is already a great view from here and the big moment for me I always love it to be at Super famous places I think I said that already in this video okay please okay okay see so yeah you need to buy the tickets in advance and then yeah the ticket is connected to your passport okay the security tells me I need to follow them I think my drone is a problem here this needs to be kept by the police okay so I cannot take the Drone inside yeah the Drone stay here you you follow me okay I think I I need to leave the the Drone here and then I can probably pick it up later okay so my drone is now inside the police van the whole process took about 5 minutes so if you want to save these 5 minutes better don't take your drone to this place but all good I can pick it up later and yeah just quickly about the tickets you need to buy the tickets online at least one day in advance which I simply did by asking my hotel staff and then they booked the tickets via an app which literally took 2 minutes and then I paid the cash to them the entrance price is 40 un so I paid it directly to my hotel staff and he booked the ticket via his phone for me and yeah now let's enter the forbidden of China yeah a few hundred years ago this would not have been Possible only if you are a member of the royal family hence the name the Forbidden City because for the regular people here it was not allowed to enter this place but wow this is already a great moment yeah if you have seen any documentaries about China before or any pictures of China the chances are really high that you have seen this place before and so have I and now being at this place by myself that feels great wow if you are from China let me know in the comments what is actually the most famous tourist spot or the most popular tourist spot to visit for the locals is it the the Square from earlier is it the great wall or is it this place or a totally different place this is really great yeah can you imagine how it must have felt for people like 5 6 700 years ago to stay here and to look at the exact same buildings and the area here is actually quite large you can see it stretches out more and more into the distance so this is a place where you can easily spend a few hours in if you're really looking into all the details all the different buildings this is easily a few hours worth of your time and at the end of the area we also have the Imperial Garden which is quite a large Garden area here so probably the the royal family or everyone belonging to the Royals spent their free time in this Garden area right here and you to be honest the whole complex here everything looks so typical textbook Chinese you know all these ancient buildings here I'm actually just thinking which place is the best for that one photo was it the main entrance or one of the squares in the middle I mean there are so many iconic photo spots inside here maybe you can take the the same picture for me yeah of course yeah that would be great okay I found someone to take pictures for me so this is the the spot I would like to have because now with the the sky and the sun it looks really nice sample yeah something something like this you're from Thailand yeah yeah oh oh wow myup wow where in Thailand are you from um Ben yeah and yeah I do have the final picture now so I'm very happy and yeah feel free to check out all the pictures I took today on my Instagram kenro on Instagram feel free to also follow me there leave a comment that you coming from the YouTube video okay and they literally just closed the doors behind me so what a great ending to the day and to end this video and if you haven't seen my previous video my high-speed train journey from guangju all the way here to Beijing then feel free to check it out right here stay healthy stay positive and then see you on the next episode ciao guys
2024-02-10 05:15
