Temple of Heaven
Oct 10th, 2007 by scott
The Temple of Heaven (ToH) was built up by all the other people at the hostel who had been there as fantastic, the best site they had seen in Beijing. I didn’t have the same feeling. Of course, the architecture is fantastic, with the circular structure having been built without using a single nail, but the site itself was smaller and the tour groups more concentrated here than elsewhere. In addition, you couldn’t go inside the building and there were no lights on, so it was hard to see anything in there. The park around the ToH was nice, but was essentially a lot of cypress trees laid out in a grid.
Also, the museum had far fewer artifacts than either the Forbidden City or Summer Palace.
So, although the architecture was cool, you can see that in pictures as well. I suppose I’ll just chalk it up to different perceptions.
Very nice photos and I enjoy watching all of them. Do you get chance to upload your HUANG LONG’s pictures?
Best wishes.
Hi Janet,
I’ll send this to you in an email, too, in case you don’t look back at these comments…
Unfortunately, when I got a plane scheduled to leave Xi’an at 8:40 AM, it had mechanical problems and we didn’t arrive at the Jiuzhaigo airport until after 3PM. So, I had one less day there and decided not to go to Huanglong because of that.
Scott