Today scored our 40th UNESCO World Heritage site on this trip: the Summer Palace, an Imperial Garden in Beijing. (The full list of visited UNESCO sites is included in the trip statistics file.) The Summer Palace (entrance fee 60 CNY) is a pleasant set of parks, hills, bridges and temples by a surprisingly large Kunming lake 14km from the center of Beijing but easily reached by metro. (Both the metro and the Summer Palace were very crowded which seems to be usual for the Chinese mid-autumn holiday time.) Several halls in the palace complex contain museums showing Chinese bronze, glass, porcelain, jade etc. crafts, but most are simply shops.
Tomorrow morning will fly to Helsinki and take a ferry from there to Tallinn. This will mark the end of our trip.
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