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The Palace Museum (The Forbidden City to Westerners)

This place was great. Equal in historical significance and grandeur to Versailles but very different from the perspective of a westerner. If you go, take the audio tour. It was fantastic and narrated by James Bond (Really! Roger Moore). It was the first real English we had heard in a while. All we've heard in Beijing was Chin-lish if we were lucky. If you don't take the audio tour you would have been lost. I wouldn't recommend the 842,123 Chinese folks offering to give tours outside the front gate. Entrace to the palance was 40 RMB and the audio tour was 40 RMB (about $5). I'm not going to mention too much here, I would screw it up. If you are interested, look it up on the internet HERE, or go to Beijing yourself. You won't be disappointed.
A stream in the Forbidden City.
The Male Bronze Lion.
The Forbidden City.
The Gate of Supreme Harmony with the Three-Tier Terrace.
The Gate of Supreme Harmony.
Imperial Garden.
The exit.
This is the Great Wall, Dont know why it's here?
The Gate of Heavenly Purity (I think).

The Forbidden City.
The Gate of Supreme Harmony with the Three-Tier Terrace.
Incense Urn.
The Gate of Supreme Harmony. The Emperor's throne.
The Gate of Supreme Harmony. The Emperor's throne.
The Hall of Preserving Harmony.
Hmm. I don't know what this is.
This is where the beds and concubines were.

007 said there was even an emperor who died in here from "Over Endulgence!"
Hmm. I don't know what this is.
The Palace of Earthly Tranquiliy (Don't these names all sound the same.)
The Palace of Earthly Tranquiliy (Don't these names all sound the same.)
Hmm. I don't know what this is.
Hmm. I don't know what this is.
Casey at the top of the Great Carved Marble Ramp.
The Imperial Garden.
The Hill Of Collecting Elegance.
The Imperial Garden.
The Imperial Garden.
The Imperial Garden.
The North Gate.
The Palace Moat.


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