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The colors in China are bright. They must paint over the red(s) a lot to keep down the oxidization, but it is an eyeful for us visitors. After taking a slow boat in china as opposed to a slow boat to china--We found the local canal run up to the summer palace. It was hot, tiny seats with 4 people in a row for 2 people, change of boats, windows don't open. no air conditioning, and three (locals)pick-up locations we made it to the summer palace. It was actually a good way to go as we ended up at the far end and saw an area that we would never have found going in with the tourist north entrance. Oh yeah (NQR)they just let us off and pointed -no map but we could see the palace on the other side of the lake luckily we guessed the correct direction.
Above is the Temple of Heaven and a bit of Forbidden Palace(they now call it People's palace the don't like the negative image of Forbidden Palace).
The marble pathway was only for the Emperor to be carried over, no else could walk on it. Does this mean the all had to jump over it to go from one side of palace to the other? and if so how did they do that with the gowns they all wore?
We took over 400 photos-No you won't see them all. Beijing, Tianjin are busy busy cities - Oh I forgot- they closed Tianamen square while we were their for a parade practice- the 60th years of communism celebration- the whole area was closed off.It looks like a big concrete area. I guess the history is the best part of seeing it.
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