Sommerpalast

The summer palace Beijing. The summer palace is perhaps one of my favourite places we visited in Beijing. It is approximately ten miles from the centre of Beijing and is a very popular place to visit. You can get there by bus or taxi and the fares are very cheap. The thing about China is that a lot of the taxi drivers can not speak English so when you go out make sure the hotel gives you a card with the name of the hotel on it so that you can show it to the driver. The summer palace is massive and was built for the Royal family to escape from the city for rest and relaxation and there used to be great processions when they moved there during ...  Read the complete review

First of all i presume the name SommerPalast is referring to the Beijiing Summer Palce (as pictured). On my first day when i flew into Beijiing, this was the first place i was taken to. Having seen nothing else of the city so far, i arrived not knowing what to expect. I was stunned. The summer palace was believe it or not where the leaders and royalty of china traditionally spend the summer. You can definatley see why. A huge beautiful lake surrounded by an array of traditional chinese buildings. I'm not too sure of the history of this place. The first thing you notice is the amazing scenery with the temple on one side of the lake (as in the picture). Its ...  Read the complete review