Last weekend I went to Beijing and I saw famous places:
-Summer Palace
-Museum Palace (la Cité Interdite)
-The Great Wall
-Olympic Games Stadium and Swimming Pool
-Lamas Temple
-Tiananmen
It was great and interesting. The Museum Palace (La Cité Interdite) is quite empty but if you have already read Pearl Buck or Shan Sa you will only feel the story that happened in this place: love stories between concubine and emperor, conspiracies for power or just feasts!
It is the same for the Great Wall: just look at the land in front of you and try to imagine Gengis Khan and his army 300 meters away from you with a flaming torch and a sword!!! The Great Wall is impressive because of its length (5000km) and the legend tells that workers died during its building and that their bodies have been buried in the Wall during the building.
Lamas Temple is also a great place, quiet and peaceful and it is impressive to see the biggest Buddha in the world (29 meters tall) and also interesting to see Chinese people praying.
For Olympic Games Stadium and Swimming Pool you can feel the emotion and try to imagine Usain Bolt just be the first to break the record in 100 and 200 at the same games and to imagine people applauding and chanting his name.
The most beautiful place is the Summer Palace with the Lake and the beautiful buildings (18km far from Beijing Downtown).
The Court was going to Summer Palace during summer because the Palace Museum was too hot!
Beijing is more Chinese than Shanghai because of the history and also because it is the capital. The army is everywhere and in the subway stations in the city centre they check bags and people (like control in the airport).
Tiananmen is also a strong place for emotion: it is hard to imagine what happened in 1989 because the place is beautiful with trees, tourists and sun.
This is one thing to do in your life: visit this city and feel the long and strong history at each street corner.
More pictures coming soon!
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Lucile
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