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China's Beijing has a lot to offer the tourist - both Chinese and foreign,...
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...such as Beijing's massive and multi-faceted Summer Palace...
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...or Tiananmen Square and the incredible Forbidden City with its stunning space...
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...that's packed with Chinese as well as foreign devils gawping at the style, colours... |
...and glorious artifacts scattered around, but it's tragic that the government is busy... |
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Left side: Beijing's Summer Palace corridor; Tiananmen Square at night, looking onto the Forbidden City; A Tang porcelain horse in the Palace Museum, a part of the Forbidden City, photo by Rosemania. Right side: The Suzhou bridge in the Summer Palace, Beijing; Forbidden City Chinese tourists, photo by star5112; one of few remaining hutongs in Beijing, China.
The 18thC Summer Palace, aka Yiheyuan, across a huge lake from Beijing's centre, is a wonderfully classic piece of royal Chinese architecture and park with fantastically ornate roofs, colourful temples, dragon tiles and splendid gardens. Yiheyuan is where emperors and their courts retreated for almost 1,000 years (this palace is relatively new) when summer oppression kicked in and consequently it's where any sane traveller should go when the metropolis gets too much.
The 15thC Forbidden City in Tiananmen Square encompasses the Palace Museum and is a natural starting point for any Beijing traveller. The 800 building City requires at least a day of attention as it was home to twenty four Ming and Qing emperors and China's imperial core for 500 years so it's stuffed with treasures. Buy the full-complex ticket if possible to get complete access, you don't have to visit every place!
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