Summer Palace (Yihe Yuan)

14,000 paintings along this 2,388 ft walkway. World record for the longest covered walkway- Chinese are quick to tell you record breaking statistics.

Brad and our guide Micheal. Micheal is a proud communist. I tried to understand from him what it means to be a communist in 2007. Being part of the party you are not aloud to be part of an organized religion was the only major rule he told me. When I asked him what voting was like in China he said they're aloud to but you don't know the candidates not even to what the look like. He said he had no idea who he voted for. The ballet has a brief description and you go on that. When I initially asked him to tell me everything about the party we were in the van and he kind of looked at me strange and said later. I thought hum, maybe the van's bugged. But when I asked him if he felt censored he said he wasn't important enough.


The Qing dynasty used this area as a summer retreat from the Forbidden city.
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