From the Summer Palace exit, we took a bus to the nearest station called HuoQiYing. I thought the name of the station was rather weird, Fire Equipment place? Hahaha. It was also the first time we took the bus! I think we still use our metro card to pay, or was it WeChat? I can't quite remember. A year later now, I am familiar with paying bus or metro via WeChat QR code, but I still prefer Transport Card. Although low tech, it is faster as compared to my other travelling mates, and you don't have the worry of your phone battery dying on you or worst, phone stolen or lost! Call me old fashion, but I'm not a fan of mobile payment outside of my house. But if it's a restaurant or a store, as an introvert, I like mobile payments! :P
We took the metro to the Beijing Library cause I saw a photo of it and wanted to visit cause it looked so futuristic. I was excited that it was on our way home, so I suggested we make a stop there.
This was the building I saw when I reached the place. Totally different from the photos I saw from the internet. I had a feeling maybe I'm at the wrong place. I was trying to visit this library. Perhaps the futuristic building is behind the old one? Ha! No such luck. Talk about lousy research at my end! I never realised that Beijing could have more than one national library! Agh!!!!!
Still, we went inside. Since I was already here, I might as well take a look. And Wow! What a beautiful grand library! Above is the main entrance. I knew I was in the wrong library because I went and asked the bored customer service guy who confirmed it for me :P
Anyway, this library was super huge, and I thought it just contained books. But then I realised they have exhibition halls too! So I went and explore the available exhibition there that day :)
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