Beijing city pictures, China

Photos left to right: the view from the summer palace across to Beijing centre;
Tiananmen Square at night, looking onto the Palace Museum, otherwise known
as the Forbidden City; summer palace detail.

Beijing Travel Guide

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.

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...tourists tend to focus on buildings...		China Pictures Beijing China Tours back Modern Beijing pictures	...like Beijing's Summer Palace...
	...or Tiananmen Square and the magnificent Forbidden City.

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