De Mochilas [EN]
De Mochilas [EN] is a travel podcast about people, place, and perspective. Told from the road, one backpack at a time.
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China -> Beijing: the market across from the Forbidden City I could have spent a week in (opens the original)
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There's a market right across from the Forbidden City that I went into more than five times. Not because I got lost. Because every time I left, I found something new. The last time was right before leaving for Shanghai, to finally buy something I'd been thinking about since day one. Musical instruments I'd never seen before in my life. Bugs on sticks I ate without asking what they were. A silk dress with a golden dragon I couldn't afford but had to price anyway. And a fan shop where I had to phy
China -> Beijing: we walked into the Forbidden City and the first thing we saw made no sense (opens the original)
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We walked into the Forbidden City and the first thing we saw had nothing to do with thousand-year-old statues or gilded murals. Without context it makes no sense. With context, it makes complete sense. After multiple visits I still felt like I had barely scratched the surface. Andrés and I got separated and lost more than once. And from a hill in a nearby park, I saw something I don't think I'll ever forget: the entire Forbidden City with the capital surrounding it. In this episode I talk about
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