We started the day with my favorite street food; Jian Bing, the traditional Beijing egg and spring onion pancake. Yum, this means the day starts out right. I mean, this pancake is $.75 worth of delicious perfection (i have challenged my self to eat one a day for my last two weeks...its going well so far!)....getting off track here, back to the ruins.
With the proper fuel and the windy weather, this park was at the mercy of silliness. The Old Summer Palace has a lot of fun things to play around on, walk through and photo op. The European influence clearly stands out in the piles of toppled structures strewn about the place. Black swans wash and hunt in the ponds. And we walk among the few tourists having a good ole time.
The Palace was used for government affairs in the 1800s Qing dynasty. During the second opium war certain morbid events led British and French troops to destroy the palace. It is in ruins but its actually quite beautiful.
I'm pretty sure this wasn't a good idea....but it was really fun.
A falling apart bridge, real purty like.
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