Friday, March 03, 2006

Temple of Heaven

Temple of Heaven

Place: TAXI (TAXZI, As called my Nitin). Outside our apartment. Mukul, Leader of the day, planning as where to go and locating the place in Beijing map. Thanks to Sudarsan, who always carry one to help us locate tourist place. :-)
About: The Temple of heaven was the place where the emperors of the Ming and Qing Dynasties would worship heaven and pray for bumper crops. Built first in 1420 AD A masterpiece of the Ming and Qing Architectural art and a precious sample of China's Ancient Architecture. The Temple of Heaven is the last architectural group for worshipping heaven in the world.Temple of Heaven, Beijing. Around this structure there is echo wall (circular). The wall is constructed in such a way that sound travel along the wall and can be heard at other End. Its very clear.


Mukul sleeping peacefully. Successfully executed the plan of visiting Temple of Heaven. He is still...

Temperature on that day was just below zero.