Bejing 2016 part I - Forbidden City

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July 1st 2016

Published: October 12th 2016

With 14 million visitors each year the Forbidden City is not so forbidden anymore Last year Ake's mother, Britt-Marie, turned 70. Ake's birthday gift to her was a week in Beijing. Emma could not come along on this journey so Britt-Marie and Ake went by themselves. Here is the first blog entry from this trip and it is about our visit to the Palace Museum or, as it is better known as, the Forbid... Read Full Entry

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Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

Ake Och Emma

We are Emma Holmbro and Ake Dahllof. We live in Stockholm, Sweden. We have travelled more or less regularly since the mid 1990-ies and it seems like the more we travel the more difficult it is to decide where to go next. Not because we are running out of places to visit but because we find more places we want to go to faster than we manage to travel to them. Some of the things from our travel bucket list we have ticked off since we started this blog in 2006 are Angel Falls in Ven... full info

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Bells

The bells probably had a religious significance

Painting

Old painting in the palace

Decoration of the stairs

Decorated marble slab in one of the stairs

Decoration of the stairs

This marble slab in the largest in the Forbidden City

Lightning rod...

On every roof there are decorations in the shape of small figures. They were not just decorations. It was believed that the figures would prevent the building from being struck by lightning. Like a primitive lightning rod. In the picture you also see a more modern version of lightning rods (the metal wires)

Roofs

Just a nice picture of roofs

Elevated walkway

Elevated walkway in between the buildings

Decoration on the side of the platform

Decoration for the pipe for letting water run off the platform

Tunnel photo

My signature - the tunnel photos. I try my best to squeeze one in in every blog entry

Pleasure park in the palace

In the northern part of the Forbidden City there is a small pleasure park

Pleasure park in the palace

In the northern part of the Forbidden City there is a small pleasure park

Shunzhenmen Gate

The northern gate to the Forbidden City. Also the main exit

Forbidden city seen from Jingshan Park

In Jingshan Park it is possible to view the Forbidden City from a small hill created from the soil excavated when they dug the moat around the palace

Guard tower

Guard tower in the north east corner of the Forbidden City

Star-rated toilet

This one is for all of you who made it all the way to the end. They actually have a rating system for the toilets! This public lavatory has been rated with four stars.

12th October 2016

Dancing Dave
David Hooper

The Forbidden City
Happy 70th birthday to your mother Ake. What a great birthday present from her son...a week in Beijing. Fabulously sharp images of the Forbidden City. Having been to Beijing a few times I'm looking forward to where you take your mother next. Enjoy.

13th October 2016

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

I'll send my mother the greetings
Thanks for the comment. We will probably go somewhere together again. We have a few ideas on where to go but nothing is decided yet. /Ake

13th October 2016

Rainyb
Lorraine Brecht

It was nice of you to take your Mum on a trip!

13th October 2016

Rainyb
Lorraine Brecht

ahhhhhhh I've never seen that before, & I've seen lots of Chinese temples, but it makes sense ;o)

13th October 2016

Rainyb
Lorraine Brecht

Nice shots! I had planned to visit there from Malaysia but never got there waaaaaaa

14th October 2016

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

I love China
I have been to China several times over the years and I love it there. Unfortunately I don't think I will go there again any time soon. In the last couple of years they have increased the price for the visa a lot and now it has become so expensive that it is not worth it. That's a pity but there are close to twohundred other countries in the world I can visit so I don't cry myself to sleep at nights over it. /Ake

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