Picture of the Day: Spidermen on The Egg

Can you spot the four men on the roof of The Egg?!

We walked a lot today -- even before lunchtime we had walked from Xidan to Chang'an Avenue to get to Tiananmen Square and then Wangfujing. On the way we made a detour to the National Centre for Performing Arts, known as The Egg.

Before we wandered inside, we walked around the whole building and at the back of the building we were shocked to see four men up on the roof.

Two were near the top -- with no safety ropes -- and cleaning the windows in the middle of the building -- while two others were suspended by ropes and using a hose to power wash the metallic shell. Presumably they were trying to wash off the accumulated dust.

It was quite a sight to watch these men cleaning the performing arts centre and I wondered if perhaps they were ex-military with experience repelling down buildings...