Bei hai park
The bei hai park is a beutiful park. It is calm eventhough there may be a lot of people there. Just walking around in the park is enough to be satisfied, but the white pagode in the island in the middle of the park is nice to take a closer look of. Not only for the pagode, but for also for the view.
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This is the first house in the inner garden one sees when walking in to the home in Bei hai Park, where several authors have lived.

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An amazing home. The environment is just so beautiful. I would not mind living here.

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An amazing home. The environment is just so beautiful. I would not mind living here.

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An amazing home. The environment is just so beautiful. I would not mind living here.

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An amazing home. The environment is just so beautiful. I would not mind living here.

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An amazing home. The environment is just so beautiful. I would not mind living here.

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An amazing home. The environment is just so beautiful. I would not mind living here.

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An amazing home. The environment is just so beautiful. I would not mind living here.

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The art is all over the place.

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The art is all over the place.

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The art is all over the place.

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An amazing home. The environment is just so beautiful. I would not mind living here.

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We have just left the home and is now entering the Bei hai Park.

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A Buddha temple inside Bei hai park.

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A Buddha temple inside Bei hai park.

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Jessica trying to get some nice photos of the Buddha temple.

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A Buddha temple inside Bei hai park.

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A Buddha temple inside Bei hai park.

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A Buddha temple inside Bei hai park.

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A Buddha temple inside Bei hai park.

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A Buddha temple inside Bei hai park.

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Nine dragon sculptures on a wall. It looks like paintings at first sight, but are sculpures "in" the wall.

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The same wall, but on the other side.

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An old man performing caligraphy. A highly respected art form in China. He does however in this case use water and draws in the park.

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An old man performing caligraphy. A highly respected art form in China. He does however in this case use water and draws in the park.

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The white pagode seen from the other side of Bei hai.

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Yellow is the color of the emperor.

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One of the homes in Bei hai park.

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One of the homes in Bei hai park.

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Jinshan park in a distance.

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Jinshan park in a distance.

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The nice couple we met while resting.

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A mountain of... what? chicks? Who knows what this is.

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Umm... gold.

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Lots of fish in a pond.

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This pond.

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The white pagode again.

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What an odd posture. Something is just not right with this picture. A beautiful boat and... me?

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Just a beautiful park all over.

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Images from the top of the mountain on the island in the middle of bei hai.

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Images from the top of the mountain on the island in the middle of bei hai.

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Images from the top of the mountain on the island in the middle of bei hai.

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Images from the top of the mountain on the island in the middle of bei hai.

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Can a god get much cooler?

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A view of the forbidden city seen from the white pagode. The forbidden city is huge.

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A view of the jingshan park (aka coal mountain). The view of the forbidden city from the top of the mountain is said to be amazing. Unfrotunately the building on the top was under reconstruction, thus we were not able to see that view. A taste of what it might be like will come though.

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Yet another man performing caligraphy on the ground with water.

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Yet another man performing caligraphy on the ground with water.

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