socialmedian: Temples and the Chinese NHS - part deux!

Hi there. I'm Jason, one of the founders of socialmedian.

socialmedian delivers the news, filtered by your network.

We'd love to have you join in.

You can use facebook connect to sign in.

Add News Flash

User-submitted headlines for this story

Clips

Temples and the Chinese NHS - part deux! — Beijing, China

Source: Travel Pod

Nov 07, 2009

Summary

Jump to the full
entry & travel map

Beijing, China

With the tour officially over, I still had a couple of days left in Beijing to explore before I had to be in Vietnam and there were a couple of others who were spending another night in Beijing. Sarah, Michele, Monica and I decided to head out to the Summer Palace, which is a vast park set around the Kunming Lake, crowded with temples, gardens and pavilions. Oh and a couple of hundred thousand Chinese! It takes about an hour to get from central Beijing to the Summer Palace so we got a taxi, which cost £7!

It became obvious when we got there that we were never going to cover everything and seeing as we were all already suffering a little from temple fatigue, we decided that half a day at the Palace would be more than enough. The buildings and architecture was absolutely exquisite as per the Forbidden City and the setting round the lake beautiful, but as with everything in China you have to constantly jostle with the Chinese to get near anything and after a ...Read the full article

Comments (0)

Add Your Comment