China Day 4

After breakfast at the Hutongs, hopped into Old Yang's taxi - our tour-guide and driver for the day.

Old Yang brought us to the Nujie Muslim Street to fill-up before we proceed to Summer Palace, said the food there was too expensive.

Had Muslim food for lunch. Quite good.

Visited the Summer Palace.

The Summer Palace park was massive. It was a pity it was winter,where the leaves of all the trees and flowers have fallen off. Otherwise the whole place would be green and blooming.

Plus the winter weather made visibility even poorer.

Still thought the place was beautiful though.

Men were spearing for fish on the frozen Kunming lake at the Summer Palace.

Old Yang picked us up in the evening and drove as around for a while.

He brought us to Beijing University. This is the library.

More buildings of the Beijing University. I felt Monash was a dump after visiting this place.

Then visited Qinghua University.

Their technology faculty / precint. They have at least 12 or 13 buildings like these more than 10 storeys high in the technology faculty itself. Some transnational companies have their own buildings, eg Samsung, Google.

He then brought us to a see the world's largest TV screen built on the ceiling of a shopping centre. It was large.

Yawn.