According to the itinerary, day one is Tiananmen Square and The Forbidden City.
It also said that on Mondays, The Forbidden City is closed for maintenance. Guess what today is?
No problem. Sarah was ready with suggestions of a restructured itinerary, but Ricky was way ahead of us. He had already decided to swap days one and three, and asked if we were ok with that.
So Day one was now going to be the Summer Palace. Built by an Emporer for his mum.
A huge long covered walkway for mum's exercise. 728m long, the longest corridor in the world, allegedly.
Unsurprisingly, it is called the Long Corridor.
She was bored, so...
The Emporer instructed the designers to decorate the passageway.
They had a week to do it, on pain of death.
No pressure, then...
There are more than 14,000 individual artworks in the corridor, by hundreds of artists, depicting scenes from stories and fables.
Apparently the paintings are on the left, right and overhead, so that mum would exercise her neck while admiring the work as she worked.
Apparently mum was now happy, so there were no designers or artists beheaded in the making of this structure.
It also said that on Mondays, The Forbidden City is closed for maintenance. Guess what today is?
No problem. Sarah was ready with suggestions of a restructured itinerary, but Ricky was way ahead of us. He had already decided to swap days one and three, and asked if we were ok with that.
So Day one was now going to be the Summer Palace. Built by an Emporer for his mum.
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| This is the entrance to The Summer Palace. Ticket sales to the right |
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| In the middle of this Palace is a man-made lake. Where there is a lake, there is somebody who will take your money to let you get on a boat |
A huge long covered walkway for mum's exercise. 728m long, the longest corridor in the world, allegedly.
Unsurprisingly, it is called the Long Corridor.
She was bored, so...
The Emporer instructed the designers to decorate the passageway.
They had a week to do it, on pain of death.
No pressure, then...
There are more than 14,000 individual artworks in the corridor, by hundreds of artists, depicting scenes from stories and fables.
Apparently the paintings are on the left, right and overhead, so that mum would exercise her neck while admiring the work as she worked.
Apparently mum was now happy, so there were no designers or artists beheaded in the making of this structure.
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