Summer Palace

One of our favorite sites in Beijing was the Summer Palace, also known as the the Garden of Nurtured Harmony. On one side of Longevity Hill are all the temples, and a lovely village with a river running through the middle of it, and on the other side of the hill you have a very large lake. Which actually takes up 3/4 of the Palace.

It's a tiring walk from one side of the hill to the other, but the temples are intersting and the scenery is lovely. After making it to the lake, we decided we deserved the easy route around the lake to the exit and took a boat carved to look like a dragon across the lake.