The Tour We Join: Beijing Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven, Summer Palace Day Tour by Bus

During this one day Beijing group tour, we did visit 4 famous historical sites after Great Wall. Those places are Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven and Summer Palace. You might unfamiliar with these places but with these pictures, it might help you to memorize and remember it.

A first spot we did visit is Tiananmen Square which regarded as the largest public square in the world. It said can hold one million people at the same time, and I think I believe it. Since the square was so huge so nothing impossible.

After took pictures in front of the entrance gate of Forbidden City then we entered the palace and find this huge hall called Taihedian in Chinese. It is the most important hall of Forbidden City, used as the place where hold several important ceremonies during Ming and Qing Dynasty.

The next place is Temple of Heaven, a sacrificial altar of Ming and Qing Dynasty worshipped heaven and prayed for good harvests. Our guide said that Temple of Heaven nearly four times larger than the Forbidden City and this is the main building of Temple of Heaven we did visit this time.

Come to our last sites called Summer Palace, a beautiful imperial garden of Qing Dynasty. This is a long corridor at Summer Palace, richly decorated with paintings on the beams and the ceiling. You can see the details of those paintings by wandering along the corridor.

Summer Palace consists primarily of the Wanshoushan (Longevity Hill) and Kunming Lake and houses more than 30 classical structures are scattering on the hill and around the lake.

Since we did visit this garden on winter, so this was the picture that I could get! Locals walk across the freezing manmade lake without any problems. The garden was quite peaceful in winter, less tourists. Do not make cold weather stop your travel plan, it was worth enough even travelling when winter.