One Night in Beijing

26 Feb - 颐和园

Yesterday we went to 颐和园, partly because Guomao boy said we should go see the frozen lake before it thaws into water again. Another part is because I would be in the area in the morning, and I wanted to take photos of the 'Summer Palace' in winter instead.

Will upload the photos soon when my scans are out tml. Doing them at the processing shop near my office. If it cocks up again, I will give Beijing one last chance at scanning my pictures, at the PKU photo processing shop.


Alex and me.


The 6 of us who went to the 颐和园. From the left Guomao boy, me, Alex, Pris, Kenny and Ly.

The emperor's summer playground is sinfully big. The 昆明湖 is a man made lake. The whole Summer Palace is so so so big. It is calculated that the funds 'misappropriated' for building the 颐和园 can actually advance China's navy (at that time) by 10 years and then perhaps China wouldn't lose the Sino-Jap war.


The Lion, the 17 arch bridge, me and the frozen lake.

We only explored half of the 颐和园 on Sunday. Because we reached at 3pm, and the grounds would be closed at 5pm. Another reason is because our walk on the frozen 昆明湖 ended up with Ly ankle deep in icy mud =P

posted by taxi taker @ 8:23 PM