Yonghegong (雍和宫 the Palace of Harmony and Peace)，popularly known as the” Lama Temple” , is a famous lamasery in the northeastern part of Beijing．It is located next to the northern side of the Second Ring Road，with Bai Lin Si ( Normal 0 7.8 磅 0 2 false false false EN-US ZH-CN X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 the Cypress Grove Temple)to its east and the Temple of Confucius and the Imperial Academy to the west．Yonghegong Lamasery is the largest lamasery and one of the best preserved lama temples at the present time in Beijing with a total area of 66，400 square meters，480 meters long from north to south and 120 meters wide from east to west．Yonghegong Lamasery is also a well—known monastery of the Gelugpa，the Yellow Sect of Tibetan Buddhism in Mainland China．In 1961，it was listed as one of China’s major national treasures under state protection．

Beijing Zoo (Běijīngdòng wùyuán 北京动物园), situated in the west part of Beijing. It was built in 1908, known as the Garden of Ten Thousand Animals. In 1955 it was formally named Beijing Zoo.

It covered an area of over 40,000 square meters. Bears, elephants, pandas, lions, tigers, songbirds, hippopotamuses, rhinoceroses, antelopes and giraffes were brought in the late 1950s, and a gorilla cage, leaf-monkey cage and aquarium house, was opened, containing specimens of over 100 species of reptiles from all over the world, including crocodiles and pythons.