We met in the reception at 9-o-clock, and went to the bus, with our guide Herbie and took the bus to the three temples we were going to visit. The first temple was The Dalai Lama Temple, which is a Buddhist temple close to Beijing. At the temple we saw the bell tower and the drum tower. At the drum tower there where a big bowl, which we were told was to cook food in, once a year at the 24th of December. It is the priest who cooks the food, and when he and the highest ranked monk have finished eating, the gates to the temple will be opened for the public of Beijing, and everyone can get in and have a pot of soup. Today the Chinese people use the pot to throw coins in, and make a wish. We then entered the three temples, and in the last one we found an 18 meter high statue of Buddha (wooow, omg!), that was curt out of one piece of wood. After that we went to The Confucius Temple, where we saw an old empire school, where only the best students was allowed to study. The best student were allowed to marry the royal daughter.
After that we went to see the Confucius temple, just 30 minutes away. When we got there, we first saw an old royal school for the best students at that time, on the other side of the street was the temple. Inside the temple we saw a lot of beautiful statues, one of them was a statue of the Chinese philosopher Confucius, he was the founder of the Confucianism which means a lot for the Chinese.
The last temple we saw, was the Temple of heaven, it was very beautiful and it was 3 times bigger than the forbidden city. After that we finished the day at the pearl marked and went home to the hotel after that.
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