We were all issued small receiver boxes. These worked wonderfully and without them we would have missed a good portion of David's commentary. They are about the size of a deck of cards with a neck rope and an ear piece for the left ear. The reception was usually good up to about 25 feet away which allowed us freedom to look around and to wander a bit, instead of just trying to concentrate on what David was saying.
We wandered a bit around the Square, overwhelmed by the size of it and the number of Chinese. And then it happened….what David had warned us about. The Chinese tourists like to take pictures with us Western tourists. With sign language and waving of cameras and much laughing, one of the Chinese tourists would stand next to us with their arm around us while a friend took a picture. And then they’d trade places. It was a lot of fun.
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