Temple of Heaven, Temple gate
Location: Beijing, China
Date: 2006-04-26
Time: 03:25:05GMT
Temple of Heaven, Temple gate
Location: Beijing, China
Date: 2006-04-26
Time: 03:26:39GMT
Cherry blossoms
Location: Beijing, China
Date: 2006-04-26
Time: 03:33:26GMT
Cherry blossoms
Location: Beijing, China
Date: 2006-04-26
Time: 03:33:55GMT
Open air karaoke
Location: Beijing, China
Date: 2006-04-26
Time: 03:36:33GMT
Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests
Location: Beijing, China
Date: 2006-04-26
Time: 03:43:28GMT
Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests
Location: Beijing, China
Date: 2006-04-26
Time: 03:43:40GMT
Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests
Location: Beijing, China
Date: 2006-04-26
Time: 03:45:16GMT
Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests
This was unfortunately the best view I could get of the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests since this, like significant parts of every other monument I visited this week, was closed for refurbishment :((
Location: Beijing, China
Date: 2006-04-26
Time: 03:45:39GMT
Hall of Heaven
Location: Beijing, China
Date: 2006-04-26
Time: 03:53:52GMT
Roof detail
Location: Beijing, China
Date: 2006-04-26
Time: 03:57:17GMT
Echo wall
Just joking. Actually we were able to hear each other from the other side of the courtyard, even with two buildings, a large space and many people between us in a direct line. Magic !
Location: Beijing, China
Date: 2006-04-26
Time: 04:06:43GMT
Hall of Heaven
Location: Beijing, China
Date: 2006-04-26
Time: 04:11:01GMT
Hall of Heaven courtyard
Location: Beijing, China
Date: 2006-04-26
Time: 04:12:02GMT
Hall of Heaven courtyard
Dean is trying to find the echo stones - supposedly you get one echo on one stone, two echoes on another, and three on a third. We couldn't find it.
Location: Beijing, China
Date: 2006-04-26
Time: 04:12:26GMT
Hall of Heaven courtyard
Still looking.
Location: Beijing, China
Date: 2006-04-26
Time: 04:12:36GMT
Hall of Heaven interior
Location: Beijing, China
Date: 2006-04-26
Time: 04:13:12GMT
Hall of Heaven
Location: Beijing, China
Date: 2006-04-26
Time: 04:15:22GMT
Window
Location: Beijing, China
Date: 2006-04-26
Time: 04:16:22GMT
Hall of Heaven
Location: Beijing, China
Date: 2006-04-26
Time: 04:16:54GMT
Hall of Heaven
Location: Beijing, China
Date: 2006-04-26
Time: 04:20:04GMT
Echo Stones
Location: Beijing, China
Date: 2006-04-26
Time: 04:29:42GMT
Handcart
Location: Beijing, China
Date: 2006-04-26
Time: 04:44:12GMT
Divine Music Administration
This looked delightfully Harry-Potteresque! A little earlier I had seen a sign for the 'Bureau of Divine Music'. Surely a department of the Ministry of Magic, no ?
Location: Beijing, China
Date: 2006-04-26
Time: 04:42:15GMT
Gate
Location: Beijing, China
Date: 2006-04-26
Time: 04:41:00GMT
Hall of Abstinence, Bridges over the moat
Location: Beijing, China
Date: 2006-04-26
Time: 04:46:05GMT
Dragons
Location: Beijing, China
Date: 2006-04-26
Time: 04:46:42GMT
Doorway
Location: Beijing, China
Date: 2006-04-26
Time: 04:51:19GMT
The Emperor abstaining
Location: Beijing, China
Date: 2006-04-26
Time: 04:54:01GMT
Lion
Location: Beijing, China
Date: 2006-04-26
Time: 04:54:38GMT
Hall of Abstinence
Location: Beijing, China
Date: 2006-04-26
Time: 04:56:46GMT
Dean, not abstaining
Location: Beijing, China
Date: 2006-04-26
Time: 04:59:16GMT
Vitruvian man in China
Location: Beijing, China
Date: 2006-04-26
Time: 05:02:21GMT
Gates and passageways
Location: Beijing, China
Date: 2006-04-26
Time: 05:04:08GMT
Gates and passageways
Location: Beijing, China
Date: 2006-04-26
Time: 05:08:01GMT
Gates and passageways
Location: Beijing, China
Date: 2006-04-26
Time: 05:09:41GMT
Hall of Abstinence
Location: Beijing, China
Date: 2006-04-26
Time: 05:12:50GMT
Hall of Abstinence
Location: Beijing, China
Date: 2006-04-26
Time: 05:13:05GMT
Temple of Heaven (天坛公园), Temple gate
Location: Beijing, China
Date: 2006-04-26
Time: 03:25:54GMT
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