圆明园 (Yuanmingyuan)

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After class, we went to Yuanmingyuan ("round bright park?") to relax. The scenery was beautiful and the clouds made very interesting and regular patterns in the sky. Yuanmingyuan had many beautiful gardens and buildings and the French and English destroyed it. They decided not to restore it, so one can see the damage that the Western imperialists did. The park was huge so we didn't see many of the ruins, mostly many lakes of lotus flowers!

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Photos

Cats in a cave
Mother on the left, baby kitten being very cute and eating something on the right.

Scott
Deep in thought among the lotus flowers.

Jordan
Looking over yonder fengqing.

Sun setting...
I love the dangly trees.