Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Day 3

**Please note, I do not know who is writing these posts on the tour diary, but it's not me and (thank goodness) not the teacher, either!**

Hi,there! Today we came back to hotel at 9:30 pm in the evening,everybody was so tired,'cause we are not used to beijing standard time.this morning we left hotel at 8:oo pm with our tour director Simon Ding.today it was cloudy,it is a little bit humid and hot.we were heading to the Tian'an men Square,my god,it is so cray at the square,so many up chinese,Simon told us that so mny chinese were lining up to see chair Mao's body(Mao'tomb).we took lots of pictures for congress room-the Great Hall of people.National museum and the Tian'an men gate.the tian'an men square is the largest city square in the world which is 144.000 square metres, which was built in the ming dynasty in 1406.we had group pictures.and then we walking through the underpass to the forbidden City which was built in 1406,14 years to finish in 1420,it has 9,999.5 rooms.we stayed in there almost 2 and half hours.too much walking in there.after forbidden city ,we went to have MC lunch.very spicy .ah.after lunch we went to the summer palace which was built in 1750 in the qing dynasty,it has two sections which has man-made lake(Kunming lake),and Longlife Hill for chinese emperor's mother,between lake and hill ,there is very bautiful long corridle which is 728 metres long and 14,000 painings like birds ,flowers and animals,etc.so amazing.we loved it .we saw marble boat which was built in 1750.it was destroyed in 1860.and then we took dragon boat with Simon to another side of the lake,we walked to the bus .and then we were heading to restaurant for peking duck.we had wonderful meal.at the same time ,it was raining ,Simon had some rain coat for us ,we did not get wet.we had wonderful time in the show theatre.show is excellent.we like it .9:30pm we were at the hotel.we had amazing day,although it was longer day,but we had wonderful day with Simon.ok !buddy.have a good night!tomorrow we are going to the great wall and something.see you tomorrow!

I'm assuming this is at the lake




At the gate of Tiananmen Square

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