{"id":957,"date":"2007-12-09T08:42:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-08T22:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wpblog\/?p=957"},"modified":"2007-12-09T08:42:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T22:42:00","slug":"day-3-the-great-wall-7-nov-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/?p=957","title":{"rendered":"day 3 &#8211; The Summer Palace &#8211; 7 Nov 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify\">On the third day of the <a href=\"http:\/\/ewenbell.com\/workshops.php\">tour<\/a>, we went to the Summer Palace. Parts of it, including SuZjou street&#8221;, and like many other places in BeiJing, was reconstructed after the British burned it down when they were an occupying force.<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yewenyi\/355060647\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3434\" title=\"SuZhouStreet\" src=\"http:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/SuZhouStreet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><!--more-->Again we split up. I went with the girls on a walk around the lake as I have visited the temple complex in 1999 and I had seen the Bodhisattva&#8217;s having sex. Though I do regret not going back and taking photos.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yewenyi\/355076188\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3436\" title=\"SummerPalaceLake\" src=\"http:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/SummerPalaceLake.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">At the very end we caught a boat back when we hit the massive crowds again at the north of the lake.<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yewenyi\/355084945\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3437\" title=\"SummerPalaceFerry\" src=\"http:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/SummerPalaceFerry.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"122\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">After this, we packed our bags and headed off for one last dinner in Beijing. It was <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/vahid_69\/sets\/72157594387924497\/\">Vahid&#8217;s<\/a> birthday so we had a cake. Ewen sold his phrase book to one of the waitresses.<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yewenyi\/355147087\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3438\" title=\"VahidsBirthdayCake\" src=\"http:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/VahidsBirthdayCake.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"454\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yewenyi\/355147319\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3439\" title=\"ChinaRestaurant\" src=\"http:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/ChinaRestaurant.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"445\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">And then as the sun set, we headed off to Xian on the train.<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yewenyi\/355147552\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3440\" title=\"BeijingStation\" src=\"http:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/BeijingStation.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the third day of the tour, we went to the Summer Palace. 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