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A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Beijing, China by TravelPod blogger Natontour titled “Chengde, Day 2″ Natontour’s travel blog entry: “And even when you know you’re on an arranged trip with wake-up call at 7am and breakfast, along with departure 8.30, you still go out drinking. oh well… Our overly excited tour-guide, a local Chengde resident with the habit of putting “yaah” in at least 2-3 times in every sentence(it’s a set joke by now) took us to two temples. There are eight so-called outer temples, because they’re outside of the ancient city wall. They’re all built in various styles from throughout China, and part of the Imperial Summer Resort, including the actual Palace and gardens. This is where the emperor came to escape the summer heat of Beijing. The construction began sometime early 17 hundreds. first the Puning temple with the biggest wooden Buddha statue there is. I wasn’t feeling too well, my stomach was killing my and spent a lot of the first visit sitting on a bench with some Chinese people. I walked a little bit around the area on my own, and got stopped a couple of times by families wanting to take a photo with me. At times it feels like being Western in China is like a walking living attraction. Behind the main temple was a hill, and along the rails upwards you could by a pad-lock and make a wish, Buddhist style. Countless number of padlocks. Next stop was the Potala temple, or Putuo Zongcheng temple. It’s actually a 1/3 size copy of …
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Architecture in the Middle Landscape and the Problem of Caesar’s Rhine Bridge – Part 1 (Sep 13, 2010 – Chinese University of Hong Kong) Roberto Pasini / www.aus.it
