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On the south end of Tiananmen Square there are two huge gates, remnants
of the old city wall. Up to now I never realized that it is possible to climb up inside of
Zhenyangmen, the northern of the two gates.
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Zhenyangmen (left) and Qianmen
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On a rainy day in April 1998 I went to see Mao's embalmed body and stumbling out from this
rather unreal experience into the light of the very real Beijing I suddenly found myself
in front of Zhenyangmen.
After paying a few yuan downstairs to enter the gate tower and another few yuan
upstairs to walk out on the balcony (I hate it when they do this!) I had the idea to try this
experiment: By walking around the gate tower I could take pictures from all four sides and maybe
with some tweaking those pictures could be put together to form a panorama of the Qianmen area
of Beijing. It doesn't work perfectly, because the gate tower is approximately 15 by 30
meters and so the camera angles won't match completely.
And here it is:
By clicking on this picture you'll see the panorama in a new browser window - the file has
230 KByte, so please be patient...
To get back here, just close the window with the panorama.
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