Hutongs, Rickshaws and all that good stuff

After the Forbidden City, all 60 of us shameless tourists visited a Hutong, which is a Chinese neighborhood where real live Chinese people live. It's quite a phenomenon because it is basically a tourist mecca directly in authentic culture. The residents who live in these Hutongs have been living there for thousands of years. Well, not THEM, but their families. It is quite an honor to live in a Hutong. To begin our tour we all hopped on a rickshaw--see lovely picture.