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INDIVIDUAL VOYAGE THROUGH CHINA DURING 7 WEEKS PEKING XIAN CHENGDU CHONGQING YANGTZE RIVER MOUNTS HUANGSHAN HANGZHOU SUZHOU SHANGHAI PEKING
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
PEKING
25 October – 6 November 1990
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A very comfortable voyage in a hard sleeper carriage. We are in company with Suzan (English) and Steve (Canadian). They arrived in Shanghai by boat from Hong Kong, visited Huangshan where they lost taking a wrong road at a crossing point. It was very foggy they say. Trembling along of coldness and fright they came out a village. It took them two days to reach Shanghai. We listen carefully their adventures; so they do hearing ours. Time pasts so fast we don’t believe we are at the end of the 1.462 km journey.
Ten days are left to visit Peking and its surroundings. No problem to take the bus to Ciao Yuan Hotel the one we stayed at 37 days ago arriving from Belgrade. A free room in the new building is a present!
On the top of our list “to see” is the Imperial Palace called Forbidden City because it was off-limits for 500 years. Passing the Supreme Harmony Gate I feel something like entering in a taboo world. Hardly sixty years ago the admission price was the instant death. We are in an immense courtyard where raise great halls which were used for imperial ceremonies. Looking around I think I know the place…a music recurs to my mind…it’s the theme of “The Last Emperor”! I remove at the time when the Tsars reigned protected from the common people...
We move between imposing halls, marvelous marble bridges, bronze incense burners, the large bronze turtle symbol of longevity and yet many strange relics of the Ming and Qing dynasties.
Here like in Suzhou denominations are particularly enigmatic and sound admirably.
Some of them: Hall of Supreme Harmony - Hall of Preserving Harmony - Palace of Heavenly Purity - Palace of Earthly Tranquility - Palace of Peaceful Old Age - Palace of Eternal Spring……..
Hall of Supreme Harmony
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A very comfortable voyage in a hard sleeper carriage. We are in company with Suzan (English) and Steve (Canadian). They arrived in Shanghai by boat from Hong Kong, visited Huangshan where they lost taking a wrong road at a crossing point. It was very foggy they say. Trembling along of coldness and fright they came out a village. It took them two days to reach Shanghai. We listen carefully their adventures; so they do hearing ours. Time pasts so fast we don’t believe we are at the end of the 1.462 km journey.
Ten days are left to visit Peking and its surroundings. No problem to take the bus to Ciao Yuan Hotel the one we stayed at 37 days ago arriving from Belgrade. A free room in the new building is a present!
On the top of our list “to see” is the Imperial Palace called Forbidden City because it was off-limits for 500 years. Passing the Supreme Harmony Gate I feel something like entering in a taboo world. Hardly sixty years ago the admission price was the instant death. We are in an immense courtyard where raise great halls which were used for imperial ceremonies. Looking around I think I know the place…a music recurs to my mind…it’s the theme of “The Last Emperor”! I remove at the time when the Tsars reigned protected from the common people...
We move between imposing halls, marvelous marble bridges, bronze incense burners, the large bronze turtle symbol of longevity and yet many strange relics of the Ming and Qing dynasties.
Here like in Suzhou denominations are particularly enigmatic and sound admirably.
Some of them: Hall of Supreme Harmony - Hall of Preserving Harmony - Palace of Heavenly Purity - Palace of Earthly Tranquility - Palace of Peaceful Old Age - Palace of Eternal Spring……..
Hall of Supreme Harmony
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