Summer Palace

After the Olympic Park, we found a taxi and headed for the Summer Palace.

Here, we're standing by a "ding", which is what my Chinese first name is.



We bought a fake fur-lined soldier hat. We bargained the poor guy selling them from 50 yuan down to 15. I think he was desperate to get rid of his stuff and out of the cold weather. Later, we were told that he probably made only about 2 yuan on the sale.

Unfortunately, all of the tourist sites in China are now overrun by people peddling all sorts of souvenir items, many who seem rather desperate. Some of them will follow you for quite a distance trying to harangue you into buying something. Later, we bought two more but paid 20 yuan, which is the more normal price.