Tiananmen Square - Beijing, China

My fellow cyclist, Kath and Alex, are in the foreground of Tiananmen Square, vast desert of pavement created by Mao in the heart of Beijing. During the Cultural Revolution, Chairman Mao, wearing a Red Guard armband, reviewed parades of up to a million people here. In 1976 another million people jammed the square to pay their last respects to Mao. The square became a household name in the West in 1989, when army tanks and soldiers cut down pro-democratic demonstrators.