Wax wonders wow enchanted visitors at Madame Tussauds

With travel off the table for me and many others in Beijing due to a flare up of COVID-19 cases in other provinces, I wasn't sure how I would occupy my time off from work during the Spring Festival holiday.

One of my Chinese friends also had some free time and wanted to meet up. I originally suggested that we visit the National Museum. Admission there is free, but I couldn't figure out how to make an appointment.

My friend recommended that we go to Madame Tussauds in the Qianmen area instead. I had completely forgotten that Beijing was the home of one of many of the famous wax museum's sites. It had been a long time since I had been to one (I went to the New York location back when I was a teenager), but I remember enjoying it and was looking forward to our planned excursion.