Summer Palace in Beijing

In Beijing i was spoiled rotten by Phoebe and Nick who took me to all the great sights and made sure i would try all the fantastic foods. Thus on sunday we went to the Summer Palace – a vast combination of lakes, gardens and palaces and covers almost 3 square kilometres of which 3/4 is water! The central Kunming Lake covering 2.2 square kilometres was entirely man-made….. that was some digging – it looked huge! By digging out the lake they could build the Longevity Hill which i was ‘climbing’ later on while Phoebe & Nick enjoyed a little rest from swiss miss 😉 A wonderful place/park this summer palace is and i can truly picture the emperor with his entourage spending the hot summer month rather there than in hot/sticky central Beijing.