Day 88 - The Confuzius Temple

Although it was not my original intention to visit the Temple of Confucius, I was very lucky I did, because instead of one of the normal touristic temples I found a piece of ancient tranquility combined with the first really interesting exhibition of that time and that specific person - Confucius.
The whole area is nice and it is very much affected by the more popular Lama Temple, which closes actually too early - so, that I will never be able to visit it :-) Even in the subway station a nice decoration shows, that the name of the station is rightly "Yonghegong - Lama Temple". on the street there are a lot of little gift shops where one ca find all theses useless Buddhist decoration and other kitsch. The whole street smells like whatever because of all the incense sticks at the outside of the souvenir shops.
Then the Imperial College Street leads to the Temple of Confucius and to the Imperial College. Enjoy some pictures from here.

On the way back i got into the craziest crowd in the subway... no movement at all and still so many people aiting to get in...
I also found some Christmas products, not soo many though - its really not that popular here.