Marble Boat, a little more Garlic and off to Lhasa
May 28th 2007 This morning we decided to go to the summer palace, which is another China site impressive in size. The empress who had the a lot of the place originally built (before the fire) really threw a lot of the empire's money away by doing so. Someone said that instead of creating the Navy that she had funds for, she had the marble boat built. I'm not sure what the whole story is but there certainly is
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