Today finally a bit of real tourist sightseeing: Two major sights of BeiJing, one very famous, the other one yet to be discovered by a larger crowd of foreign tourists: Summer Palace and Fragrant Hills Park. I have made more pictures in this one day (86 in total) than in all other days in BeiJing together. No, don’t worry…you’ll get a small selection only. I mean…it’s just 2 sites, and especially about Summer Palace everything is said and shown already in thousands of books, so I cut myself short. Nothing really extraordinary happened today anyway. I took the subway out to XiZhiMen (西直门) and hoped to find one of the busses indicated by Lonely Planet. Continue reading BeiJing (IV) Touri Hotspots →