The Summer Palace, a place where the Emperor & Empress spend most of their time in summer but I went there during winter. Too bad, winter is the only time one can take personal photo as the other time, it would be too crowded to do so.
Indeed an impressive man-made lake with ancient Chinese structure. The lake was frozen and our supposedly boat ride has to be cancel and replace with skiing! 0pps...
The summer palace is so famous because its the reason china lost to Russia in Sea-wars. The Empress decided to use the money to build The Summer Palace instead of upgrading the Navy resulting in shameful defeats of the China Armada. That was history and today its better spend money on *submarine* LOL!
Guide-li didn't let use play on the ice because he THINKS the ice is not solid enough but there were other tourist on it. Tourguides will always be tourguide because they JOB is to bring you to the places listed when you sign up for the tour. They don't care if you enjoy it or you hated it, as long as you BEEN there, their job is consider done.
China is booming and there are no more a socialist country where everyone is equal. Those left behind of the economy boom find themselves lacking behind too much. Aunty & Uncle all come to earn an extra cents.
Summer palace has the longest corridor in the world, about 1KM??? and along this corridor there are drawings on it. During the Chinese revolution, Mao Zedong instructed all this painting to be replaced with *Patriotic* drawings. So the head of the culture department came up with a brilliant idea, they painted a layer of ashes on the original drawing to protect it from being damage and painted those *patriotic* drawings on the layer of ashes. After 20years, when china opened up, these ancient paintings were revealed.China a country with thousands years of history but have they learn from it?
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