DAY 4: Summer Palace

Beijing Tour July 18-22,2013
Day 4 (July 21, 2013) - Summer Palace

Alol really wanted to see the Old Summer Palace since Day1. So for our last day, we decided we'd go and see the famed imperial garden.

Took the subway again :) Alol has no trouble with it, except for the beggars and trash everywhere on the train :(

Entrance ticket is RMB 30.

Entrance - 

Inside -

Gate of the Dawn Light -

Fishing pond. 

Indeed "a masterpiece of Chinese landscape garden design".

Alol wanted to really see the "Old Summer Place" but the expanse of 2.9 square kilometers of Summer Palace is just too much already for us to trod. We also did not see the marble boat but it's okay. 

The Summer Place station is the most decent I've been to. There is McDonalds, Pizza Hut and DQ just outside the station. We were just both very thirsty because of the scorching heat. So we decided to head back to Wafujing District for pasalubong shopping.