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A late autumn visit to Zhenjue temple
Beijing, 1st of November 2020 Beijing’s Haidian district is home to the Zhenjue temple, which is a people magnet in late autumn due to its golden ginkgo trees. The main sight is the diamond throne in the center of the temple complex looking strangely like the pagodas in Cambodia or India. Built from bricks and…
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Guomao and the CCTV Tower
Beijing has a top-notch subway system. You can get everywhere real quick, trains arrive within minutes of each other, and everything is very clean and state of the art. Going home we often take the subway, but in general we prefer to walk. Having slept off the last remnants of our jet lag we got…