The Summer Palace

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颐和园, or the Summer Palace is a palace in Beijing, mainly consisting of a huge man-made lake called Kunming lake and Longevity Hill. It has been on the World Heritage List since December of 1998, regaurded as "a masterpiece of Chinese landscape garden design." One could spend an entire day or even multiple days wandering through it's maze-like paths, stumbling upon amazing gardens and buildings every so often. The maps they sell inside are not nearly detailed enough, and I found myself getting hopelessly lost frequently, but even while lost I found beautiful displays of Chinese architecture and design.

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Photos

A huge Buddha statue
Unfortunately, this statue, like many others, are forbidden to be captured on film. I did manage to get on sneaky picture, although the angle could use some work.

Exercising
This woman around the age of 65 comes the Palace to stretch and exercise. Never before have a seen an old woman bend like that....