Start your cycle tour at breakfast time in one of the hutongs (alleys) north of the Forbidden City.
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Few homes in the hutongs have running water, so public bathrooms serve as household bathrooms.
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Vast swaths of hutongs have been bulldozed to make way for high rises.
In the 1950s, there were as many as 6, 000 hutongs in Beijing, but it is thought that around 40% of these have been bulldozed since 1990.
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Before dusk, head west toward the Drum and Bell Tower, located at the south of Hou Hai lake on Gulou Dajie, where you can wiggle your way down the hutongs once more.
Life in the hutongs has its pluses and drawbacks.
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