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The Forbidden City Continues…
6 Jan2009
Continuing on with The Forbidden City where we take a closer look at the artifacts and relics inside the city.
Happy browsering. ^^
Note: Part 1 can be found here if you haven’t checked it out yet.
The Nine Dragons Screen
I've never seen a ceiling look this amazing
One of the Dynasty main bed. Got this shot before it got really crowded.
Check out the craftmenship. Amazing. ^^
Finally made it to the other side of the city, also known as the "Exit".
The moat surrounds the whole city so if you were able to get out, you would have drowned.
Overall, it was an awesome adventure being inside the walls of city. With so much history and culture, it was literally impossible to see it all in half a day. If you ever plan to make the trip here, this place is a MUST SEE because you will have to experience it to see what it feels like to be within these walls.
Honestly, it’s quite overwhelming as you feel like you stepped back in time where the Dynasties once ruled China. ^^
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12 Responses to The Forbidden City Continues…
Otaku Dan
January 6th, 2009 at 3:57 pm
those are some beautiful artifact they have
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Panther
January 6th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
That “water” is called a moat. -_-
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Rin
January 6th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
I would love to go…but first I need to learn the language…
Your experience in Beijing is like my experience in Japan…
9 days is not enough to explore Tokyo…the next time I go which is in the summer I plan to go to Japan for 3 weeks…
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M12
January 6th, 2009 at 9:00 pm
These artifacts are very nicely textured. It’s very impressive.
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Optic
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January 6th, 2009 at 11:40 pm
@Otaku Dan
One of the best. ^^
@Panther
Thanks mate. Corrected on my post.
I knew that was a name but I couldn’t figure it out what it was. -_-
@Rin
If u don’t know the language, u can book with an English travel group. There was heaps of other groups from many countries there that day.
@M12
It’s more impressive when u see it with ur own eyes. :)
gordon
January 7th, 2009 at 2:25 am
u should have brought a figure or figma with u. will definitely make some interesting shots. ^^;
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Persocom
January 7th, 2009 at 4:37 am
Awesome pictures, if I ever make it to China I’ll be sure to set aside time to check the place out, looks spectacular.
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Adun
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January 7th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
The Forbidden City is one of the places I would like to see one day. But yeah, the problem is the language barrier and I imagine there aren’t many English speaking tours available? Still I would prefer to go in myself rather than join a tour group.
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James
January 8th, 2009 at 9:15 am
I’m going crazy seing all this , i would take something like 100000 pictures if i was going to see something like that .
France is so boring :/
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Rangerroh
January 8th, 2009 at 10:14 am
Wow! nice pictures of the forbidden city. Love the last picture with the moats.
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Q
January 9th, 2009 at 4:37 pm
Oh very, very nice pictures of the artifects in the Palace Museum~ I’m surprised that they allow pictures there!
Tell you something interesting: There should be a lot more treasured items there, but they ended up in the National Palace Museum, which is in Taipei o_o
The reason behind this was that back in the 30s-40s, the KMT (Nationalists) moved them from places to places to prevent them to fall to the hands of the Japanese. After WWII came (or rather, resumed) the civil war, and with the communists winning the KMT took a lot of the items with them as they fled to what we call Taiwan.
What I’ve said may not be 100%, but a wiki always helps:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Palace_Museum
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Optic
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January 10th, 2009 at 11:18 pm
@gordon
I was planning to but I realised I’m gonna be moving around a lot so I didn’t. T_T
@Persocom
It’s a must see and u won’t regret it. ^^
@James
James my friend, I wanna go to France one day. Will u show me around? :)
@Rangerroh
Last pic. to the moat was a good way to end it.
@Q
Interesting Q. Thanks.
I basically skimmed through the treasure sections as each area was so crowded. I didn’t take a lot of treasure items as most of them are the same overall.