20120509_1057_018 TaiYiGong clinic (not processed)

20120509_1057 TaiYiGong clinic

20120512_2047_0256 (Beijing time 1847) High-tech district, Beijing. Next to the Haidian electronic markets

20120513_1000 YuanMingYuan 圆明园 Old Summer Palace. Peony garden on the site of an old (destroyed) hall

20120513_1008_0286 YuanMingYuan

20120513_1009_0288 YuanMingYuan

20120513_1016_0289 YuanMingYuan

20120513_1019 YuanMingYuan 圆明园 (Old Summer Palace), Beijing

20120513_1021 YuanMingYuan (圆明园） Old Summer Palace, Beijing

20120513_1030_0297 YuanMingYuan

20120513_1031_0298 YuanMingYuan

20120513_1032_0299 YuanMingYuan

20120513_1035_0302 YuanMingYuan

20120513_1035_0303 YuanMingYuan

20120513_1037_0304 YuanMingYuan

20120513_1039_0305 YuanMingYuan

20120513_1039_0306 YuanMingYuan

20120513_1045_030 圆明园. Old Summer Palace. The more interesting northern border of the north-east section (this part isn't so interesting, though)

20120513_1048_0312 YuanMingYuan. 'maze' (reconstructed from the original, I think)

20120513_1103_0314 YuanMingYuan

20120513_1123_0268 entrance to 圆明园 (old Summer palace) park (Beijing time 0923)

20120513_1125_0269 圆明园 (Beijing time 0925)

20120513_1127_0270 one of the original bridges at 圆明园, '残桥 canqiao' (ruined bridge) "In its heyday YuanMingYuan had nearly 200 bridges. This bridge was a stone arch and bridge over a stream outside the west palace gate of Fuchun Hall. What has been left over is a single arch, the only preserved old stone bridge after Yuanmingyuan was destroyed [by European forces in the 1865 Second Opium war and 1900 Boxer Rebellion]." (Beijing time 0927)

20120513_1140_0274 YuanMingYuan (Beijing time 0940)

20120513_1143 圆明园. YuanMingYuan. In the north-west, and generally less interesting, corner of the park. This little gem only had goat-tracks leading to it (no bridge to cross that little stream, though).

20120513_1149_0319 YuanMingYuan. Western side of park. Former fishponds.

20120513_1150_0276 YuanMingYuan (Beijing time 0950)

20120513_1151_0278 YuanMingYuan (0951 Beijing time)

20120513_1153_0279 Yuanmingyuan Peony Garden. I think this is at the former site of the 含经堂 (HaiJingTang 'Tripitaka Hall') (0953 Beijing time)

20120513_0955_0282 YuanMingYuan

20120513_1307_0321 北京植物园 Beijing Botanical Gardens, rose garden entrance (Beijing time 1307)

20120513_1333_0342 北京植物园 Beijing Botanical Gardens

20120513_1334_0343 北京植物园

20120513_1355_035 Beijing Botanical Gardens

20120513_1355_0387 北京植物园

20120513_1356_3388 北京植物园 rose park

20120513_1358_0390 北京植物园

20120513_1358_0391 Beijing Botanical Gardens

20120513_1359_0392 北京植物园

20120513_1400_0393 Beijing Botanical Gardens

20120513_1429_0405 北京植物园 Beijing Botanical Gardens

20120513_1433_0412 北京植物园 Beijing Botanical Gardens

20120513_1437_038 Beijing Botanical Gardens

20120513_1438_0414 北京植物园

20120513_1444_3425 北京植物园, inside the greenhouse (no, not originals)

20120513_1449_0426 orchids, Beijing Botanical Garden glasshouse

20120513_1450_0430 Beijing Botanical Gardens

20120513_1453_0434 Beijing Botanical Gardens