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A VT member wrote the following comment about visiting Beijing:
Temple of heaven park by Gard
One day after visiting the Forbidden City we were still in high spirits and we made our way across Tiananmen Square in the direction of the Temple of Heaven (know as Tiãn Tán Gõngyuán). For 30 RMB you can get into this park and check out ?Hall of the prayer for good harvests?, ?Imperial vault of heaven? and ?Circular mound?. We entered the park from the west and it took us quite a long time just to walk to the centre of the park where we could check out the buildings. The ?Hall of the prayer for good harvests? is a circular temple painted in blue, green, gold and red and it was striking to see this temple against the blue sky background. From this temple we walked south to get to ?Imperial vault of heaven?. According to our guide book this has a perfect circular wall and just like the Whispering gallery at St. Paul?s in London one can stand on one side and talk to people on the other side. Our guide book also mentioned that trying this out may be tricky as we could expect quite a few loud Chinese trying it too*grin* Fortunately, it was not crowded that day. Nikki and I went to a side each and all of a sudden I hear Nikki?s voice saying ?G, can you hear me??. I was quite surprised and said ?Yes? and I think Nikki was even more surprised than me because all she could say was ?Really???.
