Doyboy Travels: The Forbidden City!

Sunday, March 26, 2006

The Forbidden City!

I could tell you about the history of the Forbidden City, but frankly I cant be arsed and there is a very good guide that tells you all about it.

Anyway the Forbidden City was opened by Mao after the Cultural Revolution, previously everyone was Forbidden to enter the city (funny - wonder how it got its name) unless you were royalty. Apparently (and I forget where I got this stat from) but there were over 5000 ladies of the night who lived in the grounds, its seems that the Emperors were pretty horny people.

The city is huge and unfortunately because its low season the main temples were being revamped. However we managed to see quite a lot of the outsides of the temples ... the highlight of the city however was the Starbucks which graced the grounds with Mochas. I was nearly tempted in buying a coffee but managed to avoid it. I wonder if they will do a Maocha (sorry couldnt resist.)

So thats it for the Forbidden Temple there are two main temples which we saw the Temple of Heaven and then Temple of Earth. These two temples represent the Ying (I believe Heaven) and the Yang (Earth) with a small Temple of Calmness inbetween the two.

I will leave the photos to do the rest of the talking.

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