My favorite photo spot in Beijing

Beijing is a megacity with numerous locations to take great photos! To keep things simple, I’ve narrowed down my list to top 10 locations ( check out : Top 10 Photo Spots in Beijing). Certainly, you may have your own choice of the Top 10 per your own taste.

There are four turrets around Forbidden City with each corner topped by one turret tower. The two turrets on the northeast and northwest corners of Forbidden City offer great photo opportunities.

Northwest Turret and Northeast Turret are my favourite photo spots. The beauty of Chinese traditional architecture attracts a consistent daily flow of visitors and photographers, professional and amateur.

Northeast Turret is a good location to snap the picture of sunset glow mirrored on the city moat accompanied by Jingshan Park. A few days ago I couldn’t resist the temptation of taking photos of the charming towers. I heaved my photography pack and taxied to the northeast corner of Forbidden City.

The waist-level moat wall on the northeast corner was full of people, photographers with their cameras on theirs tripods and tourists with their smartphones busy taking pictures of the turret tower. I even saw a young couple taking wedding photos.