Beijing Trip Part 10

Name : Beijing Trip Day 7 Part 1
Date : 2nd January 2010
Place : Zheng Yang Gate, Capital Museum and Around Beijing Streets.

So now we were in our 7th Day in Beijing. Early in the morning while we were having breakfast, we were informed by the waitress that Beijing snowed during the midnight. And we were like "wow seriously?? how can we not notice that from the window wei..." *swt*

Then we went out from the hotel lobby to see what snow looks like play around with snowssss before going up to our bus.

Photo of the day first.

Snow Snow Snow !!!

Date and Time printed. 7.50am - 2/1/10

I wonder why was I so excited seeing vehicles covered by snow.

Damn Jakun lar can? =.=

White snow covering white Car.

Happy to see real snow for the first time in his life.

we first went up to this Zheng Yang Gate.正阳门

City View from the top of Zheng Yang Gate.

Love the Winter atmosphere that made the city view looked bit blurry.

Snowy floor. So white So beautiful right?

felt like stepping printing our footprints all over it.

In front of the other Gate.

Then right in front of Zheng Yang Gate was this famous QianMen Street 前门大街, they have all kinds of shops along this ancient street wei...

posing with the street tram.

found Starbuck in Beijing.

found also a huge Christmas tree just beside the main road.

and took this Christmas Ball shot.

♥ the snowy effect on the ball.

with our Malaysian Tourguide Miss Joann.

then we took a short walk to our next destination.

spotted this motorized trishaw. Quite special heh?

Rows of Bicycle. suits the B&W effect?

yea yea, next time if you got no place to stay around Beijing,

just ask me for a 70% discount for this hotel. =)

another snowy vehicle.

happiness plus five...^^

photo of the day.

snowy bushes.

Our next destination : Beijing Capital Museum 北京首都博物馆.

 we were allocated just too little time inside the museum, 

so we could just finish visiting like 30% of its whoel area only. >.<

But here are some of the photos taken.

Ancient Cannon.

model of Qing Dynasty Capital during its peak period.

Crown for Ming Dynasty Emperor.

imperial edict 圣旨.

永乐大典, one of the most complete encyclopedia in Ancient China History, Compiled during Ming Dynasty.

Currency notes used during the Republic of China period.

then we entered a pavillion where they displayed various type of vases

Jade Vase.

made of wood but not quite light by appearance.

Porcelain Vase.

Managed to take down the name of this vase (using photo of course)

大清雍正年制景德镇窑珊瑚红地珐琅彩花鸟瓶 (1723-1735).

Same goes to this Ink set used by Emperor QianLong.

乾隆御墨 (1736-1795)

I suppose this was the grand generation of what I am playing now. lol.

last shot of the mesuem overview before leaving.

Quite a short post for this part as there will be quite a number of photos coming up for our next destination, so in order to avoid flooding you all with tons of photos in a single post, I will save them for the next one instead.
Stay tune folks.  =)

Coming Up Next : They believed they could communicate with Gods when they stood on the arena.