After going out on Sunday night to Bar Street we were all rather hung over on the Monday morning. We therefore had a Starbucks to wake ourselves up and then headed somewhere where we could relax and recover.
We went to Behai Park. In the centre of the city, just up from The Forbidden City, it was a paraidise. We hadn't seen so much grass or as many flowers and trees since we arrived 6 weeks ago.
The Park itself is home to the Bai Ta - a huge white Pagoda that stands 36 meters above the ground. Entry to the park included entry to Qiong Island where you can make the hike up to the top of the Pagoda and look over the city. This provided some spectacular views, which only would have been bettered if there wasn't quite so much smog in Beijing, as it was quite hard to see over some distance.
The park was a great place to relax and was nice to take in some scenary and Chinese culture. The only point that I would like to make was that a lot of it has been rebuilt. Whilst their explanation for this is "earthquakes" which sounds quite legitimate and it looks very nice all restored and brand new. But why restore? Surely to have the original, no matter how damaged would be better. It got on our nerves after a little while, especially when we found that one of the white bridges was made of plastic!
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