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| One of Many Palace Halls |
Friday, June 13, 2014.
A pall of haze hung over the city at dawn. The sun shone orange red. When we left the hotel at 7:30, the air temperature was already warm. Our goal today was to visit the Forbidden City, historical imperial palace of the Emperor and then if we were still game we wanted to go to the summer palace.
I can't begin to describe the vastness of the Forbidden city. It is surrounded by a huge moat and there are numerous grand halls each flanked by gates, walls, verandas, terraces, and massive parade grounds. The palace grounds seemed to go on forever. We were exploring for several hours. By the time lunch rolled around, we were hot, sweaty, and not interested in anything more for the day.
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| Forbidden City Gardens and Moat |
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| Sculpted Sea Staircase |
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| Bronze Age Artifacts |
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| Empress's Courtyard |
After a lunch break at a Starbucks, we headed back to the hotel where we are enjoying the air conditioning and watching World Cup soccer, BBC News, and golf in our room. We clocked in another 6 miles on the pedometer. In the early evening we will meet up with our Silk Road Odyssey Tour Group. We checkout tomorrow and take an overnight train to Xian after some local touring in Beijing.
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