After visiting the Forbidden City, we then went to Beijing's other very famous landmark, the Temple of Heaven. As you know, Chinese people can be very superstitious and back in the day, the Emperor ( link to God) would try to appease the gods in many ways, including worshipping at this temple every year.
Of course before we went in, we stopped at a Chinese Bakery for some eats. God the food was so good and cute!
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| Almost makes me not want to eat them |
Apparently the Temple of Heaven is a local hangout and all the seniors come here to chill with their friends.
The most iconic building in this area was the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvest, with its triple decked roof.
The inside of the circular building was absolutely gorgeous. I think I almost like it better then the Forbidden City.
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| Ancient Chinese Door-knocker |
For our last day in Beijing, we went to the Summer Palace, unfortunately, since we were visiting in Winter, the sights weren't as great as they could be. But luckily we finally saw the clear blue sky for the first time since we were in China.
We got to walk through the Long Corridor where each beam and overhead area is hand painted.
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| As far as the eye can see |
We found a guy selling sugar art, where you take malt candy and blow different shapes into to make edible art.
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| We each got a candy figure :D |
The Summer Palace was a great place to visit and it probably would've been better if we had came in the summer time.
We got to try the famous Beijing Tanghulu before we left the city. This is a snack that has candied hawthorn berries on a bamboo stick and I've been seeing these on TVB dramas ever since I was little. We got a modern version with candied fruits too and it was so much better then I expected! Not too sweet, not too tangy and the texture was so nice and crunchy! 10/10 would try again :)
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