Link to Wikipedia The Summer Palace is a vast complex of lakes, gardens, and palaces in Beijing. While it was an imperial garden in Qing Dynasty, the Summer Palace dates back to the Jin dynasty in 1153, when the Jin capital was moved from Huining Prefecture to Yanjing in the Fragrant Hills and Jade Spring Hill […]
Link to Wikipedia The Terracotta Army is a collection of sculptures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China. It is a form of funerary art buried with the emperor in 210–209 BCE with the purpose of protecting the emperor in his afterlife. The figures, dating from approximately the late third […]
Link to Wikipedia The Great Wall of China is a series of stone, brick and wood fortifications built along the historical northern borders of China to protect the Chinese states and empires against the raids and invasions of the various nomadic groups of the Eurasian Steppe. Several walls were being built as early as the […]
Link to Wikipedia The Forbidden City is the former Chinese imperial palace from the Ming dynasty to the end of the Qing dynasty (the years 1420 to 1912). Located in Beijing, it now houses the Palace Museum. The Forbidden City served as the home of emperors and their households as well as the ceremonial and […]
Randy and I went SCUBA Diving in the Great Barrier Reef. That was really fun. It looked like an aquarium with lots of coral, amazing colorful fish, and life like I have never seen before. This is a must see.
