A Kindergarten Visit
Last week, I visited a kindergarten. The children in this kindergarten are a little different, they all have problem in hearing. The kindergarten is actually a pre-school teaching them how to properly pronounce and speak.
Western Hills of Beijing
Even though I would say Beijing is pretty flat, but the city is just next to mountains, small hills of Taihang Mountain chain touch the suburb of Beijing in the north and west direction, they are visible in the clear days, beyond the mountains in the north (where are famous for the Great Wall), there stretches the Inner Mongolia Plateau, in very hot summer days, just drive alone with the Jing-Zhang Express Way, 3 hours you can feel the cool breeze from grassland.
20091023 Badachu Park
Badachu Park is at the foot of the west hill of Beijing. Normally people come here for visiting the 8 temples scatter around the hill. In autumn days, it is also good for seeing the leaves of the trees that are coming to be coloured.
Badachu Park in the western hill
South of the Fragrant Hills is Badachu, there are eight Temples and Shrines scattered on the Western Hills. The first site, built in the Ming Dynasty (1504), was Chang’an Temple, inside which is an Exhibition Museum. The second site is the best preserved one from the Tang Dynasty, it has a 13-storied Buddha’s Tooth Relic Pagoda (Temple of Lingguang). Inside the Courtyard is an Apricot Tree dating from the Yuan Dynasty.
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