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Entrance ticket for Ditan Park, Beijing, 2007.  (All attractions in China require the purchase of an entrance ticket.)Reflection in melted snow, Ditan Park, Beijing, 2007.Red wall and door, Ditan Park, Beijing, 2007.   Gate to the Round Altar, Temple of Earth, Ditan Park, Beijing, 2007.Apple and burning incense, Round Altar, Ditan Park, Beijing, 2007.Pilgrims, Yonghegong (The Lama Temple), Beijing, 2007.Offering incense, Yonghegong (The Lama Temple), Beijing, 2007.Masked monks on parade, Yonghegong (The Lama Temple), Beijing, 2007.Cell phone and incense, Yonghegong (The Lama Temple), Beijing, 2007.Monk with a digital camera, Yonghegong (The Lama Temple), Beijing, 2007.Pilgrims lighting incense, Yonghegong (The Lama Temple), Beijing, 2007Burning flame, Yonghegong (The Lama Temple), Beijing, 2007.Prayer Wheel, Yonghegong (The Lama Temple), Beijing, 2007.Souvenir vendor near Yonghegong (The Lama Temple), Beijing, 2007.
 Woman and child, Beihai Park, Beijing, 2007.Grandmother and her "Little Emperor" grandson, Behai Park, Beijing, 2007.The entrance of Xitian Fanjing, a temple in Beihai Gongyuan (Beihai Park), Beijing, 2007.Closed door to a temple in Beihai Gongyuan (Beihai Park), Beijing, 2007.A familiar sight in any Chinese park,a group of singers join in an impromptu chorus, Beihai Park, Beijing, 2007.A Chinese girl poses for pictures with the Jade Islet and White Dagoba Temple behind her, Beihai Park, Beijing, 2007.
 A man proudly displays his grandchild, Behai Park, Beijing, 2007.
 View from the East Bridge leading to the Jade Islet, Beihai Park, Beijing, 2007.An ornate gate leads to the Circular Mound Altar of Tiantan Gongyuan (The Temple of Heaven Park, Beijing, 2007.
 A guard stands at the entrance of the Imperial Vault of Heaven, Temple of Heaven Park (Tiantan Gongyuan), Beijing, 2007.A Chinese tourist pauses by the Imperial Vault of Heaven, Temple of Heaven Park (Tiantan Gongyuan), Beijing, 2007.A gate opens to the 360 meter Vermilion Steps Bridge, leading from the Imperial Vault of Heaven to the Hall of Prayers for a Good Harvest (in the distance), Tiantan, Beijing, 2007.Playing near the Hall of Prayers for a Good Harvest, Tiantan, Beijing, 2007.Steps lead up three levels of marble stone base to The Hall of Prayers for a Good Harvest, Tiantan Gongyuan, Beijing, 2007.
 A bridge crosses the Inner Golden Water River inside the Outer Court of the Forbidden City, Beijing, 2007.A Chinese tourist poses in front of a colorful door inside the Forbidden City, Beijing, 2007.Chinese tourists inspect the lion head water drains at the base of one of the numerous buildings inside the Forbidden City, Beijing, 2007.Brass lion head handles adorn a giant water pot in the Forbidden City, Beijing, 2007.A mother places her child inside an empty water pot in the Forbidden City, Beijing, 2007.Hanging from Tian'anmen, the massive front gate of the Forbidden City, this huge portrait of Chairman Mao watches over the famous square to the south, Beijing, 2007.West of Beijing, in the hills of Metougou District, is the ancient village of Chuandixia, 2007.The Great Wall of China lies only an hour away from Beijing.  Here, on the popular Badaling Great Wall, a tourist ponders the immensity of China's most famous landmark, 2007.