Friday 22 August, 2008
Today was an amazing, jam-packed day. I set off by myself for the Llama Temple (Yonghe Gong Temple) in the North East corner of the city. It is an ancient Temple in the history of China which was turned into a Buddhist temple and now has 50 monks in residence. I got an audio guide and walked around the temple, and watched as hundreds of people prayed to Buddha for all their needs and wants. It was a pretty amazing place in that it was such an active place of worship.
After I was done there I made my way to Beihai Park to meet Jess Norgard - it is the park to the North West of the Forbidden City, and at the top of the white dagoba, there is an absolutely amazing 360 degree view of the city. We enjoyed just walking around, but parks in China are definitely not like parks in Australia. There is no grass, its all just concrete paths and trees! Oh well, we still found a place to have our little picnic, and went for a little boat ride =)
That night for dinner we took two of the people we worked with at Weightlifting (who also live at BFSU) out for dinner out the back of our uni. They showed us a really nice restaurant that we had no idea was there, so that was cool. But it wasn't good bye just yet, we are seeing them again on Tuesday to give them all of our leftover stuff.
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