After breakfast, we visited the Puning Temple and the smaller Pule Temple. Again, we were faced with rather clumsy modern reconstruction and restoration. Sadly, China appears to have lost a lot of its cultural heritage between the Japanese invasion, the civil war, and the Cultural Revolution.
In the afternoon, we returned to the Imperial Summer Palace for an open cart ride through the hillside of the park on an extremely narrow and winding park road. We stopped at one point to walk on the park wall. They had a lovely sign warning us not to score on the wall, which had me in stitches. We could see the mini Potala Palace in the distance. We are visiting that tomorrow.
Dinner was a hot pot. which was wonderful. All the meals in Chengde have been fabulous, but this one was the most fun.
