Summer Palace is known as ‘The Gardens of Nurtured Harmony’. It contains a huge lake and surrounding hills that attracts thousands of tourists every day. Its beautiful scenery and elegant architectural structures show a lot of history and will give you a great day of sight seeing and cultural knowledge. You should book through China Flights to get over to Beijing and then let your trip be organised by China Tours to save yourself organising it yourself, they can do everything for you!
The Summer Palace, Beijing
After arriving to Summer Palace after a long and confusing walk from the train station, we finally found where the entrance was. For some reason, you will find yourself outside a train station a lot without much information of directions to the main attractions there. Sometimes you will need to be prepared enough to find your way to an exact location so take this in mind when using the train. The sun was shining, the sky was blue, it was almost good as a summers day. Once inside, you can’t help but notice the statues and cultural sculptures which will keep you dazed and intrigued about the reasoning behind it all, so getting a guided tour is very useful. You’ll soon find yourself down a path that leads to the great Kunming Lake. Wow! What a sight for sore eyes, you can see the imperial gardens and pavilions in the far distance, a bridge that leads to a smaller island on the other side, and kites in the sky.
Bridge at Summer Palace
Walking around we made our way up to the ‘Temple of Buddhist Incense’ and ‘Sea of Wisdom Temple’, these were both great to look at. It doesn’t seem as high as it looks from the ground but when you climb the tall steps up to the top of the temple, you realise that it was a lot further up than you first thought. We then walked over the bridge on the other side of the lake to the small island where some people were flying kites in the air, this was pretty kool as it was hardly windy at all so I was impressed by there ability to control such a thing so high up.
Summer Palace is a sight seeing must and you won’t be disappointed by the volume of calmness and peace in this place. A brilliant day out indeed. I would recommend you choose China Travel to get there!
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