The Fobidden City, La Ciudad Prohibida.
Friday, June 13, 2008
The Great Wall 2, La Gran Muralla China 2
Markus at the Great Wall, Markus en la Gran Muralla China.
Summer Palace 2, Palacio de Verano 2
The Long Corredor in the Summer Palace, el Gran Corredor en el Palacio de Verano.
Summer Palace, El Palacio de Verano
Marble Boat in Summer Palace, el Bote de Marmol en el Palacio de Verano.
Beijing, Peking
This is going to be our last post, our asian trip is soon finished, tomorrow I fly back to Spain and in about a week Markus is going back to Sweden.
The first day in Beijing, the 9th of June, we didn't visited so much, we went to see the Drum Tower, the Bell Tower and the Beijing traditional hutongs.
The 10th of June we started our visit to Beijing, we went to see the Summer Palace, the Emperor Qianlong in the 18th century marshalled 100.000 labourers to deepen and expand Kunming Lake. The Long Corredor is an elegant stretch of woodwork of 750 m with 8000 different paintings. A bit boat made of marble represent the Qing Dinasty.
Yesterday, 12th of June, we went to visit the Great Wall, it saids that for every meter of the Great Wall has died one worker, the Great Wall is more than 5000km long, make the math, you can choose different parts of it in depends of what do you wanna see and how many tourists do you wanna meet, so we decided for Simatai, where the wall it hasn't been renovated and it's not so much people,is 110 km from Beijing, we took a normal bus and then once we were in the nearest city Miyun we took a taxi to the wall, the taxi driver waited for us for 4 hours.
This part of the Great Wall was built during the reign of Ming dynasty emperor Hongwu, the 19 km section is an invigorating stretch of watchtowers, precarious plunges and scrambling ascents. We took a carcable and a small train to get to the wall, we walked over the wall for nearly 3 hours and we went back to the taxi walking.
For the evening we went to eat some dumplings.
Today was my last day as a tourist, we went to the Temple of Heaven and the Fobidden City. The Temple of Heaven has come to symbolise Beijing. Set in a walled 267 hectare park originally served as a vast stage for solemn rites performed by the Son of Heaven, The Round Altar and the Imperial Vault of Heaven was constructed in 1530, wrapped around the Imperial Vault Of Heaven just north of the altar is the Echo Wall.
The Forbidden City so called because it was off limits for 500 years is the largest and best-preserved cluster of ancient buildings in China. This place is enormous and thanks God Lars was with us so we could explain to us the secrets of it.
After a long walk in the Forbidden City we went to meet Eskil and some other people and we had a great night eating in a japanese restaurant, we ended up in a karaoke.
Esta va a ser la ultima vez que escribimos, nuestro viaje por asia esta apunto de acabar, maniana yo cogo un vuelo de vuelta a Madrid y en algo mas de una semana Markus vuelve a Suecia.
El primer dia en Pekin no hicimos demasiado, fuimos a visitar La Torre de los tambores, La Torre de la Campana y las casetas tipicas de Peking.
El 10 de Junio fuimos a visitar el Palacio de Verano, El emperador Qianlong con la ayuda de 100.000 trabajadores excavo el lago de Kunming.
El Gran Corredor es una elegante pasillo echo de madera de 750 metros de largo donde hay mas de 8000 pinturas diferentes.
El barco de marmol representa la Dinastia Qing.
Ayer, 12 de Junio, fuimos a visitar La Gran Muralla, se dice que por cada metro de la Gran Muralla ha muerto un trabajador, la Gran Muralla tiene mas de 5000km, haz la cuenta, puedes elegir diferentes partes de la muralla para visitar, dependiendo de lo que quieras ver y a cuantos turistas te quieras encontrar, nosotros elegimos Simatai donde la muralla no ha sido restaurada y no hay demasiada gente, esta a 110 km de Peking, cogimos un autobus de linea hasta la ciudad mas cercana Miyun y alli cogimos un taxi hasta la Muralla, el taxista nos espero durante 4 horas alli.
Esta parte de la muralla fue construida por el Emperador Hongwu de la dinastia Ming, son 19 km de torres de vigia, atalayas y reliquias. Cogimos un teleferico y un pequenio tren para subir, andamos por la Muralla durante 3 horas y bajamos andando por la Muralla.
Por la noche fuimos a comer dumplings.
Hoy fue nuestro ultimo dia como turistas, visitamos el Templo del Cielo y la Ciudad Prohibida. El Templo del Cielo se ha convertido en un simbolo de Peking, se encuentra en un parque de 267 hectareas, originalmente servia para celemorias solemnes realizadas por el Hijo del Cielo, El Altar Redondo y La Bobeda del Cielo fueron construidos en 1530, alrededor del la Bobeda del Cielo se encuentra la Muralla del eco.
La ciudad prohibida fue llamada asi porque estubo fuera de los limities de el pueblo durante 500 anios. Es el mas largo y mejor conservado reciento de arquitectura antigua de China. Este sitio es enorme pero menos mal que estaba con nosotros Lars que nos pudo explicar los secretos del sitio.
Despues de recorrer la Ciudad Prohibida durante unas horas decidimos quedar con Eskil y unos amigos suyos para cenar, cenamos en un restaurante japones donde lo pasamos muy bien, acabamos la noche en un karaoke.
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