2006. 4. 15.
Beijing Yong He Gong
Beijing, Yong He Gong
This news is not in its original language, and has been translated automatically. Click here to see the original page. Back in Beijing! This city is full of resources and I know very well that I could not fully explore, but I try to enjoy it. Again, Wei'm wandering around in super nice. To my arrival, we go to a restaurant very traditional. The menu is written on plates of wood!
The dishes are small, as in our restaurants to home, and that's great. A small salad, pieces of chicken with cacahètes / nuts / and things of that register, and crispy shrimp
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That day we went to?? (Yong He Gong), the Lama Temple. He is reputed to be the most beautiful temples in Beijing. There are many people who come to pray before the many Buddhas! It includes Sakyamuni, the founder of Buddhism and Buddha of the present, Kasyapa, the Buddha of the past, and Maitreya Buddha of the future.
In this temple there, there is the largest wooden Buddha in China. He stands and measure 26m high! The statue comes from Tibet, and it took 3 years to take him to the capital. But ... photo prohibited
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Then walk in? (hutongs). These are traditional alleys, remember the past, there are small houses with courtyards, where whole families can live alone in one room. These neighborhoods were unfortunately destroyed as and to be replaced by modern buildings. It must be said that what was once the city has become more real than a slum beautiful old neighborhood! That said, life does not seem so bad for those who live there ... some pictures:
There amazing time. On the right picture, we can have a white background of the photo waving an arm in the air. Julien, a friend of Dalian! Funny, I take a picture and do not express I find myself with a familiar face on! Finally the world is small, or when the French Dalian are everywhere!
In this street we enter a store where they kind of yogurt to milk goats. Impresses good
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It is actually all around the city center by the small streets around. The evening arrives and we meet the market where they sell lots of weird stuff but a priori edible.
Starfish! It's not really appetizing, and it takes great courage to try! I have not enough ...
... and next, they look like scorpions, also crickets, and the kinds of cockroaches ... And finally, the Chinese are not so fond of this kind of thing! Like us, they too do not like it either.
The dishes are small, as in our restaurants to home, and that's great. A small salad, pieces of chicken with cacahètes / nuts / and things of that register, and crispy shrimp
. That day we went to?? (Yong He Gong), the Lama Temple. He is reputed to be the most beautiful temples in Beijing. There are many people who come to pray before the many Buddhas! It includes Sakyamuni, the founder of Buddhism and Buddha of the present, Kasyapa, the Buddha of the past, and Maitreya Buddha of the future.
In this temple there, there is the largest wooden Buddha in China. He stands and measure 26m high! The statue comes from Tibet, and it took 3 years to take him to the capital. But ... photo prohibited
. Then walk in? (hutongs). These are traditional alleys, remember the past, there are small houses with courtyards, where whole families can live alone in one room. These neighborhoods were unfortunately destroyed as and to be replaced by modern buildings. It must be said that what was once the city has become more real than a slum beautiful old neighborhood! That said, life does not seem so bad for those who live there ... some pictures:
Old men playing Chinese chess ... a mother and her little girl ...
There amazing time. On the right picture, we can have a white background of the photo waving an arm in the air. Julien, a friend of Dalian! Funny, I take a picture and do not express I find myself with a familiar face on! Finally the world is small, or when the French Dalian are everywhere!
In this street we enter a store where they kind of yogurt to milk goats. Impresses good
! It is actually all around the city center by the small streets around. The evening arrives and we meet the market where they sell lots of weird stuff but a priori edible.
Starfish! It's not really appetizing, and it takes great courage to try! I have not enough ...
... and next, they look like scorpions, also crickets, and the kinds of cockroaches ... And finally, the Chinese are not so fond of this kind of thing! Like us, they too do not like it either.