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In front of Kunming Lake at the Summer Palace
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The emperor who really worked to build the Summer Palace up moved lots of rock from other areas of China to the Palace for decoration.
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In front of some boats that are gonna take us across Kunming Lake.
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the dragons tail
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On the Seventeen-Arch Bridge
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At Juyongguan Pass in front of a pass that says something to the effect of ... you aren't a man until you climb The Wall.
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On the Great Wall
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After I got back down from the top
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A rock with Juyongguan Pass marked on it.
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Us at the base area of the Badaling area of The Great Wall.
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The entrance of one of the watch towers along The Wall.
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In front of the Beijing National Museum and one of the Official Olympic Clocks.
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Monument to the People's Heroes in Tianamen Square
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The Imperial Palace and Forbidden City
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Somewhere inside the Imperial Palace
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It was super bright, but standing in front of some of the yellow (yellow was for royalty) roofs in the Forbidden City.
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Lanny (our tour guide), Ashley, and I in the Forbidden City
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In front of the love tree or something like this, anyway, the last emperor and empress had their picture taken infront of this tree.
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On a bridge over looking the moat around the Forbidden City
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Outside of the Palace with the Northwest watchtower
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Overlooking Beijing from the drum tower in an area close to the Forbidden City.
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The center drum in the drum tower ... that is a big drum!
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Ashley, Lanny, and I in the drum tower
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Us in our rickshaw with our driver ... they changed to bicycles instead of walking about 10 years ago or so.
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Eating lunch in a Chinese family's house during out rickshaw tour of Hutong streets, this was very memorable.
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In front of the Temple of Heaven
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On the Lugou Bridge, also known as the Marco Polo Bridge.
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In the Beijing Botanical Gardens
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Again, very bgirht, but very beautiful.
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At the Silver Forest Pagodas, about 1.5 hours outside of the city, it was very peaceful and not crowded.
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A small waterfall (man-made I think)!
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In front of the Beijing Aquarium.
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At the China Nationalities Museum
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In the China Red Sandalwood Museum
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This is an emperor's throne we are sitting on! ;)
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Hard Rock Cafe Beijing
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Waiting to see the acrobatics show
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In front of an Armillary Sphere at the Beijing Ancient Observatory.
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In front of several ancient astronomy tools at the Beijing Ancient Observatory
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