Last day in Beijing

For our last day in Beijing, we decided to visit a park near our hotel: Beihai Park. It's a pretty old park and features a beautiful lake and a small hill where a white dagoba rests.
This tree is really old and has a famous history of having provided shade to an emperor. Mildly cool.
This temple contains a -no photographs allowed- jade buddha of 1.5m that was a gift to the emperor. Apparently the buddha has no flaws whatsoever.
Beautiful scenery all around
This cool turtle lion is guarding the templeThe way to the dagoba has all kinds of interesting caves
And they all seemed to contain a different sculpture. I liked this one
The view from the top was interesting
Even if it doesn't look like you can get inside the dagoba.
The way down features some nice rock formations that are really interesting to walk through
And the lake side is a beautiful walk on its own
For dinner, we found a Thai/Indonesia place where we had a really delicious mixed grill. Look at this platter. Delicious.
And after dinner, we caught an acrobatics show. No cameras allowed, sorry. Here's a picture of the pamphlet to wet your appetite.
These gymnasts/dancers were really talented. One of the stand out performance involved about a dozen girls riding on a single bike in an inverted pyramid. Wow! Some juggling, tap dancing, contortionists, loose rope jumping and playing with props like lights at the ends of a rope rounded the show into a really good night out.

Tomorrow is travelling back to Canada. While I will miss China, I am ready to go back. I may do a few more pieces of debriefing / thoughts after the trip but it most likely won't be until at least Saturday.