June 16
Walked my feet off today at the Summer Palace. This is the one North of Beijing proper that was built by the Dowager Empress Cixi using funds embezzled from the army/navy. Of course in a country as old as China you would think there would already be a Summer Palace close at hand. Well there was. And then we (the U.S., U.K., .... and a few others) burned it to the ground to force open trade agreements. Not to worry, the Chinese got us back during the Boxer Rebellion when they destroyed several embassies. Although there were some fortifications in place which unfortunately led to the burning of a library older than the one founded in Alexandria.
Getting back on track, not much to say about the Summer Palace other than it is enormous, filled with people, very pretty, and it started raining on us. Definitely worth the gander out to see it, but like the Forbidden City, it is just so large and swarmed with people that I will not be going back anytime soon.
Enjoy the photos!
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| Suzhou Street |
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| Going Down! |
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| Sword Practice in the Park |
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| Tower of Buddhist Incense |
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| Land Ho? |
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| Summer Palace, it started raining on us about here |
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| A Dragon Deer ... Drageer? |
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| The End |
As always, all photos have been dumped onto Google+ at:
https://plus.google.com/photos/108488715129842232914/albums/5890820067283843425?authkey=CJ7F4ZbevYjKYQ
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