Gu Gong (The Palace Museum) Beijing

Beijing. Where to start? After a slight lie-in (till 8, because we hadn't got in until about 1am the night before) we got up. For breakfast we found a really nice French patisserie and had focaccia and "grapefruit green tea". The tea was very refreshing and the focaccia was such a welcome change! We continued on to the Forbidden City with our take- …

... ;red and the roofs were yellow/gold.  Lying at the center of Beijing, the Forbidden City, called Gu Gong in Chinese, was the imperial palace during the Ming and Qing dynasties. ...

... ;red and the roofs were yellow/gold.  Lying at the center of Beijing, the Forbidden City, called Gu Gong in Chinese, was the imperial palace during the Ming and Qing dynasties. ...

... considering we paid £2.50GBP in Guilin to see a rock that looked ever so slightly like an elephant's trunk! The Forbidden City (or Gu Gong as it is known in Chinese) is in the centre of Beijing. It was the Imperial Palace during the Ming and Qing ...

... square is efinitely huge and just thinking abut it's tragic part in history is interesting. Lying at the city center and called Gu Gong in Chinese, it was the imperial palace for twenty-four emperors during the Ming and Qing dynasties. It was first ...

... the purple star. It is called the Forbidden city as no locals were allowed in. Lying at the center of Beijing, the Forbidden City, called Gu Gong, in Chinese, was the imperial palace during the Ming and Qing dynasties. Now known as the Palace Museum, ...

... of people were visiting this place, and I am told this occurs on a daily basis. Lying at the center of Beijing, the Forbidden City, called Gu Gong in Chinese, was the imperial palace during the Ming and Qing dynasties. It is now known as the Palace ...

... two forbidden palaces built in the Ming Dynasty, one in Beijing and one in Nanjing; so sometimes the palace in Beijing is called 'Gu Gong 故宫', meaning the 'old palace'. I walked in from the Wu Gate (soutside of the palace) and therefore ...

... abdicirali zadnjega vladarja Puya, ki pa je kljub temu zivel v palači se do leta 1924, ko je bil izgnan iz drzave. Gu Gong, kot se palača imenuje po Kitajsko, je razdeljen na dva dela. Juzni del ali zunanje dvorisce je bilo namenjeno cesarjem ...

... known as the Emperor's Museum, situated off the famous and huge Tiananmen Square. Lying at the center of Beijing, the Forbidden City, called Gu Gong in Chinese, was the imperial palace for twenty-four emperors during the Ming and Qing dynasties. It ...

... and heated Red Bean Paste.   'Til tomorrow...   ======================================= Forbidden City (Gu Gong) The majority of visitors to Beijing's main attraction rent their audio tour and rush through the central route without ...