Thursday, 27 November 2008

颐和园 The Summer Palace

Yi He Yuan The Summer Palace is where the Emperor would go in summer.

The Forbidden City (in the centre of the city) was too hot during summer in Beijing.

The Summer Palace has a huge lake Kunming Hu which you can boat on. The grounds are massive.
There is a long traditional style walkway with a roof. On the awnings there are traditional style paintings
of different scenes (a man doing caligraphy etc).




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