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BEIJING
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Beijing is the capital of modern China, and some other ancient dynasties. This city is still full of the nicest places, like Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven, Beihai Park and its white Pagoda, and the summer Palace (burned down by english and french soldiers).
These videos are mainly from Forbidden City.
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Beihai Park 01
Video taken at the east of the bridge. We can see the central island and the White Pagoda on top. |
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Forbidden City
In front of the entrance of the Forbidden City. We can see the high red walls all around.In the middle, under the fort, we can see the three entrance doors - the middle one is only for the Emperor, servants and all others take the two others on the side. |
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TianAnMen - Forbidden City
View on TianAnMen square, outside Forbidden City. From right to left, we can see the building with Mao picture, then the 8 lanes around TianAnMen. At the east of the square, you can see the huge building of Deputees Hall. |
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Forbidden city. Main Palace. Second court.
Here we can see a panoramic view of second court, the largest of Forbidden City. In front of us, there is the largest building of Forbidden City. This second court is definitely huge. |
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At the center of the second court of Forbidden City.
From the previous video, we went to the center of this second court. In front of us, there is the main building, the main palace of forbidden city, and behind us we can see the gates between the first and second door. |
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View from the front of the main palace
Shooted from the top of the stairs in front of the main palace, this video is showing the door leading to the first court, and gives a good impression about this gigantic place. |
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Temple of Heaven
Panoramic view on top of the stairs of the small temple in the south of Temple of Heaven. We can see the 'Wall of Echoes'. This wall has peculiar acoustic characteristics. |
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Summer Palace
Panoramic view of Summer Palace in Beijing, shooted from the south side of the lake. From right to left, we can see the famous 17 arches bridge, the island, then the hill with the pagoda. At the foot of this hill, the longest corridor of the world - 350 m -, with great paintings, all different. |
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Summer Palace.
Panoramic view of a small lake. Around this pond, there is a corridor. Many beautiful lotus are growing in this lake. |
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XI'AN
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Xi'An is located in the Shaanxi province. This city was the first capital of Chinese Empire, unified by QinShiHuang.
The city is still surrounded by high walls. Close to Xi'an is the tomb of QinShiHuang, with its treasures and its famous terra cotta warriors buried army.
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Terra-Cotta Warriors.
The famous terra-cotta warriors of the QinShiHuang's buried army are buried around the tomb of the Emperor.
This warriors are at the 1:1 scale: here you can see that the chinese from northern province are far from being dwarves, since most of these warriors are taller than 1m80. |
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Terra-Cotta Warriors.
Here is another view on the terra-cotta warriors, shooted from the middle of the building. |
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SICHUAN
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Sichuan is one of the province of the heart of traditional China, the only place of earth where panda lives.
At the west of this province, there are the foothills of Himalaya climbing to Tibet, culminating at above 4000 m in Sichuan province. In this province, two landscape jewels: huanglong and jiuzhaigou national parks. Truly amazing preserved environment.
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HuangLong National Park
Huanglong national park is classified to World Heritage by UNESCO. It is famous for its pools made by calcareous concretions.
This video is about the multicolor pool, located at the top of the park. |
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NOTE
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If this codec is not installed on your computer, please
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Version 1.0c - 11/04/2006.
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