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Welcome to Phoebe's Beijing Trip Website

There are some informations that you can have a look down there

Forbidden City

The Forbidden City is located at the center at Beijing. It was built at 1407 and completed 14 years later at 1420. It is a really great, massive place which has many beautiful buidings, two wonderful green place, Mao Tse Tung Museum,ect. I think I will really like it when I visit this place.

Great Wall

The Great Wall is a really famous place that everyone knows. It is located to the North-West or North of Beijing. It took 200 years to complete the Great Wall and is over 6000km long. The Badaling section of the Great Wall is along the mountains northwest of Beijing. It was built at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty in the 14th century and is 7.8 metres high and 5.8 metres wide.

Summer Palace

The Summer Palace is the best-kept existing royal garden in Beijing. It is one of the best ancient building, with the styles of gardening and a virtual museum of traditional Chinese gardening. The Summer Palace was first named the Garden of Clear Ripples, which was burnt down by the allied forces of Great Britain and France in 1860. It was then reconstructed started 25 years later and completed in 1895, and the name was changed to Yiheyuan (Garden of Good Health and Harmony). The total area is 290 hectares, and the buildings are measured in over 3,000 bays.