Beijing 2016 part II - Cultural heritage en masse

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July 3rd 2016

Published: October 29th 2016

Four world heritage sites and one site which isn't In and around Beijing there are so many cultural heritage sites that you can't possible visit them all in such a short trip as the one I made with my mother last summer. We had to limit ourselves to the most interesting ones. If we had tried to squeeze in too many it would have killed all the fun with the trip. I have been to Beijing sever... 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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The Ming Tombs

The Ming Tombs are located just outside Beijing. Strangely enough nowhere near the metro station with the same name

Ming Tombs

Each one of the tombs is the size of a palace with a large park around it.

Stele at the Ming Tombs

This stele stands near the entrance to the Dingling Tomb

Stair decoration

They really spent a lot of money on these tombs. Even the stairs were lavishly decorated

Symbolic urns

These urns stands at the Dingling Tomb. They probably have a symbolic meaning. I think so because I saw similar urs urns when I many years ago visited one of the ten Ming tombs which are not open to the public

The underground vault

The underground vaults are so well hidden that it is difficult to find the entrance even if they decide to excavate the site. They actually got lucky when they found the way into Dingling Tomb which you see here

Boxes with treasures

The emperors are buried in a sealed underground vault. In the burial chamber there are often the remains of a couple of wives and possibly a servant or two and also large amounts of gold, jade and precious stones.

Corridor

My trademark - the corridor pictures

Playing games

Old people playing various board games in the Temple of Heaven Park

Art installation in the Temple of Heaven Park

Large sections of the park looks like what you would expect of a park. Green grass, green trees, nice trails and this art installation

Gate in the Temple of Heaven

One of the gates in the Temple of Heaven

Gate to the ceremonial platform

Gate to a ceremonial platform in the Temple of Heaven

Ceremonial platform

Ceremonial platform in the Temple of Heaven

Are these balusters?

The edge of a platform in the Temple of Heaven. These might be what is known as balusters, but I might be wrong there

Optical illusion

The ground is flat. It doesn't look like it is when you see the photo but that is an optical illusion.

The elevated walkway

The temples and the altars are nice but my favorite is actually something else - an elevated walkway which runs between the main sites. It is long and wide and when you walk on it you see fabulous imperial architectural gems in either end of it

A temple

One of the temples in the temple of heaven

Gate in the Temple of Heaven

One of the gates in the Temple of Heaven

29th October 2016

Rainyb
Lorraine Brecht

Good shot. I have not seen this angle/long view before ;o)

29th October 2016

Rainyb
Lorraine Brecht

I agree, I think they're balusters ;o)

30th October 2016

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

I got it right
I got it right then. Good /Ake

29th October 2016

Rainyb
Lorraine Brecht

Great album!

30th October 2016

Dancing Dave
David Hooper

Beijing
You packed so much in for your mother to see in Beijing Ake. Something a good son does I gather. Hope she was not too exhausted to take it all in!!!

30th October 2016

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

Mother enjoyed it
I have no doubt that my mother enjoyed the trip very much. We made sure not to squeeze in too much. /Ake

30th October 2016

taracloud
Tara Cloud

So many amazing sites!
And of course, I loved this corridor/tunnel one that is so characteristic of you. What a great son to be a tour guide for your mom! Like China, these sites are bigger than life, and so beautiful! I especially liked your story of bribing that guard--I have the feeling that a lot of clever tourists have done this. I'll remember it if I ever get to China!

13th November 2016

D MJ Binkley
Dave and Merry Jo Binkley

The great wall
Nice photo

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