Today we went to Weiyang Palace Remains Park. It's a huge, huge park that's the exact spot of where the old palace used to be. Xi'an was the capital of the country for a few different dynasties. The big palace we saw today was destroyed at the end of the Han Dynasty, around 200 AD. There's not many buildings to see (almost none!) but they have the outlines on the ground of where they used to be so you can get an idea of how huge it was. Although there are so many historical places to see in Xi'an, this park isn't one of the ones commonly seen because it's so big and on the outskirts of town. I enjoyed it, even though it was so hot today! It was great to see how big it was and to think that I was walking where some of the people I've written about (children's biographies and the Storybook fo China) have been.
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| This used to be where the wall for the palace used to be. You can see how thick the walls were. |
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| There's a plastic window with a drawing of how this exact place looked like many years ago. |
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| The park goes all the way to the trees in the back. |
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| Where the trees are are probably where the main roads used to be. All the green fields are where the old city and palace used to be. It's huge! |
