[A Stroll Through the Summer Palace: A Guide for the Lazy!] The Right Way to Visit the Royal Garden!

🌿**Reasons to visit**: ✔️Unlock the scenery in the "Qianlong Dream" ✔️3 hidden ways to play: cruise/secret lotus hunting/ancient costume travel ✔️Great news for the lazy! 4 differentiated routes through the East, West, North, and South Gates ✔️The prototype of the Seventeen-Arch Bridge in textbooks, where golden light penetrates the arches ✔️Summer limited edition: Lotus pastry + royal afternoon tea experience 📍**Attraction Coordinates**: No. 19, Xinjianguomen Road, Haidian District, Beijing (there are 6 entrances and exits!) 🚇**Transportation Tips**: ▫️**Choose Beigongmen for quick entry**: Exit from Exit D of Beigongmen Station on Line 4 and walk for 5 minutes (suitable for special forces-style travel) ▫️**Choose Xinjianguomen for boat tours**: The entrance is the Seventeen-Arch Bridge + Bronze Bull, and you can get on a large cruise ship in seconds ▫️**Choose Beiruyimen for the elderly and children**: Flat road throughout! Avoid mountain climbing sections ▫️**Choose the West Gate for the Xijiao Line**: Get off at the Summer Palace West Gate Station on the "Train to Spring" 📸**Top 5 Must-Visit Attractions**: 1️⃣ **Painting-in-the-Picture** (newly opened!) A fairy-tale spot in Qianlong's dream! The orange pavilion is built with stacked stones. Stand on the second-floor platform to take a blockbuster photo of "People in a Picture Frame" (navigate to "Gongshi Yiting" for afternoon tea) 2️⃣ **Fragrant Buddha Pavilion** Overlooking Kunming Lake! It is recommended to climb to the top at 4 pm, the glazed tiles reflect golden light (the steps are steep, wear comfortable shoes) 3️⃣ **Six Bridges of the West Causeway** A mini version of Su Causeway in West Lake! Peach blossoms in March/lotus flowers in July/withered lotus in October, you can take different cinematic photos in all seasons (avoid crowds on weekends) 4️⃣ **Qingyan Boat** A stone boat combining Chinese and Western styles! Take pictures of Kunming Lake through the carved windows, and the rainy days have a more misty Jiangnan atmosphere 5️⃣ **Garden of Harmonious Interest** A Jiangnan garden hidden in the north! Rush in before 8:30 to contract the mirror lotus pond, the koi + pavilion reflections are amazing 🎫**Ticket Guide**: ▪️Basic ticket is CNY 30 (buy in advance on the official account! Enter with your ID card) ▪️The CNY 60 joint ticket includes four major attractions (the Fragrant Buddha Pavilion + Dehe Garden are worth the price) ▪️Hidden benefit: Buy a gate ticket on-site for half price after 5 pm every day! ⚠️**Tips**: ① The Fragrant Buddha Pavilion is closed every Monday! Don't make a wasted trip ② Get up early if you want to take empty shots! Open at 7:00 and rush to Painting-in-the-Picture/Garden of Harmonious Interest ③ Kunming Lake cruises depend on the weather! Sailings will be suspended at any time if there is a strong wind of level 4 or above ④ Wear Hanfu/cheongsam! You can take great photos of the red walls and green tiles ⑤ Bring bread to feed the koi! The fish are most concentrated in the Garden of Harmonious Interest/Suzhou Street ⑥ Bring mosquito repellent in summer! There are many mosquitoes by the lake and willow trees 🚶♀️**Classic Route Reference**: **3-Hour Lazy Version**: Enter from Xinjianguomen → Bronze Bull → Seventeen-Arch Bridge → Take a boat to Nanhu Island → Qingyan Boat → Painting-in-the-Picture → Fragrant Buddha Pavilion → Exit from Donggongmen **6-Hour Deep Version**: Enter from Beigongmen → Suzhou Street → Four Continents → Garden of Harmonious Interest → Dehe Garden → Hall of Benevolence and Longevity → Long Corridor → Fragrant Buddha Pavilion → Painting-in-the-Picture → Qingyan Boat → West Causeway → Jade Belt Bridge → Seventeen-Arch Bridge → Exit from Xinjianguomen 🛶**Hidden Ways to Play on a Cruise**: ▫️**Romanticism**: Rent an electric boat at Yulantang Pier and take selfies through the lotus bushes (CNY 200/hour) ▫️**Efficiency**: Shifang → Nanhu Island large boat route, cross Kunming Lake in 15 minutes (CNY 40/person) ▫️**Social phobia exclusive**: West Gate → Nanruyimen transportation boat, enjoy the wildness of the Jingmi Diversion Canal (CNY 30 per section) 🍵**Royal Experience**: ▪️Tingli Hall: Empress Dowager Cixi's minced meat sesame cake ▪️Summer Palace Coffee: Fragrant Buddha Pavilion-shaped ice cream + Summer Palace latte art ▪️Yanshangzhai: Lotus pastry + iced plum syrup (summer limited edition) —— The core secret to avoiding tourist groups is two words - **go the opposite way**! Others enter from Donggongmen, but you go to the West Gate. Others squeeze into the Long Corridor, but you hide in the Garden of Harmonious Interest. The feeling of contracting an empty scene is really amazing~