We wake up quite early to go to the imperial palace last saturday. We left at abt 9.00am.As always the guys would wake up first and on to waking up the girls in their room. Actually suppose to leave at 8.30am, but anyway we reach there at abt 11am. The imperial palace is inside of tiananmen, so we took a bus to a place before transferring to a train to reach tiananmen station. We reach and explore the places in tiananmen before we saw a shop taking photos of traditional palace costumes of emperor, princess, concubines, empress, generals and etc. Kelly and Feng xian decided to take photos using the costumes provided, they paid 40 dollars each,two photos to be taken for them. So the guys and shao wen waited for them and help to take photos with our own camera besideswhat the shop provided. Spent abt 30mins over that shop. Moving on, we decided to buy tickets for visiting imperial palace, it cost us RMB 40 each. The place is very big with actually a lot of palaces lock,showing the main palaces not the small ones. Anyway, some of the main palace is also renovating so cannot go in. Anyway, we actually scroll through the entire place though some of the palace are lock, it is still a big place afterall. I guess we did take a lot of photos and using my video camera from my handphone taking short videos which are sometimes very funny, as in the things we do!!Ok for lunch, i finally had my first meal at starbucks coffee cause there is no other food outlets in the imperial palace. I had a duck breast snadwich and a cappaciono( sorry don't know how to spell)---- 38RMB, so exp!! The imperial palace closes at 4.30pm. So after that, we walk down to another place to have dinner. On our way, we walk into raffles hotel in Beijing, and i tell you the place is great and looks like a 5-star hotel, went to check the prices , it is like so expensive. Anyway, we went to dinner and again i had the baked rice with seafood, the girls order the same but zhen wei cannot take seafood so he had a fried rice with diced chicken and etc. Reach home at abt 10pm, everyone is like so tired after walking for the whole day and today it felt cold maybe cause we are outside almost the whole day, not like in shopping mall with heaters.
Sunday, we left the hostel at abt 11am to have lunch at nearby restaurant. With us reaching the summer palace at abt 12.30pm. We bought tickets for the whole summer palace which cost us 50RMB. The place is also so big till we cannot finish walking all the paid destinations, one of it is wasted, so sad that we have waste one paid destination fees. Aiyah, anyway, we reach home quite early at abt 8pm, had dinner before that. And watch armed reaction 2 till abt 12midnight before we went to sleep. Busy weekend we had ah!!! Tired, but at the same time happy as we finally visited places of interest in Beijing itself. Next weekend should be the same schedule, but time really flies, 3 weeks left in beijing..................................Bye!!!!
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