We started out our tour by visiting Summer Palace. This palace was built for the royal family to relax and enjoy time away during... you guessed it, the summer! There is a beautiful man made lake that sits in the middle of it all and to say the entire place was breath taking would be an absolute understatement. There is so much history here. Our tour guide shared many stories about the royal family that built these grounds. The large rock formations were brought in from all over China for the emporor since he liked rocks when he was a child. I think all little boys love to collect rocks but holy moly! : ) We ended our visit to this site by taking a boat across the lake... just beautiful.
After the Summer Palace we went to a pearl market and then to cute little resteraunt which I am sad to say we didn't eat much from. We have been pretty good at trying out new foods but let's just say the food was a little bit too authentic at this place. Although, they did have a tray of "American" hot dogs available to us... they were sliced and placed on sesame seed loaves with lettuce and tomato... okay. : )
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