So then there was an epic 26hr train journey where the only ticket I could get was 'standing room only'! I sat on my bag in an aisle for 26 hours to get from Chengdu to Beijing living like the chiense do on these pretty tasty chinese pot noodle - needless to say I was pretty excited when we finaly got to Beijing!I checked in an headed for Tianamen square which is huge - this is the picutre of chairman mao that looks over the square.