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Island in Garden of Eternal Spring, Yuan Ming Yuan Traditional Geocache

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Hidden : 6/30/2013
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

Another cache in Chuangchun Garden of Yuanmingyuan Imperial Garden.


Our cache is a  300ml Food Storage Container, including cachenote and visitlogbook. 

The Spot of cache is on an island, beside the road.

It's easy to make the location, so no more hint is needed.

Nice view of Lotus Pools could be obtained during summer.




However, Access fee = 10rmb Located in the west, haidian district yuanmingyuan eastern. A large YuYuan originally qing imperial, covers an area of about 5,200 mu, layout is tasted, the figure of Ming, changchun yuanmingyuan garden spring, three components, redtown 35 hectares. It's land area and as big as palace building, water area and is a palace. Yuanmingyuan collected at some wonderful characteristics of jiangnan gardens, ancient Chinese gardening art with the essence of the garden, the garden of arts, poetic melt in the scene of les. Yuanmingyuan imperial court for the southern district, is the emperor of official processing. While the rest of the 40 scenic spot, which has more than 50 sights directly from imitating, such as hangzhou west lake scenery gardens landscape architecture, only ten imitation, also copy. More interesting is, was built in the western garden yuanmingyuan scenic spot. The most famous "wonder," is a western fountain, and spend array labyrinth and circle million, with Italian Renaissance style. In the lake in a city model, the emperor sit can appreciate the mountain scenery outside the wall "watertowns". Summer is a ZhenBaoGuan, the celebrity calligraphy and painting, BiFu classics, ZhongDing vessels of gold and silver jewelry, on rare relics of ancient cultural essence. But also a rare wood flowers, rare flowers in the garden millions of plants. Complete the westerners witnessed yuanmingyuan garden she called "million." Indeed, if today, and 140 years ago this ChaoJuXing garden is worthy of "the world" king of garden. Unfortunately, 1860 by the anglo-french allied forces in 1900 and coalition of garden yuanmingyuan, two looted and burned building relics were looted, miracle and mythological yuanmingyuan into ruins, only for people, deep dilapidated building.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)