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+====A mapping audio guide====
+{{ fotos:kaarten:kaart-gugong.jpg?200}} On many tourist spots in China you
+can rent an electronic audio guide. Some of these attractions have an extra
+cool map based audio guide, it shows a small map of the area and shows you
+where you are and what parts you haven't seen yet. The map is a simple
+plastic covered paper map on the front of the device with  red led lights
+behind it, visible through holes in the map. There are no buttons and
+your own location is indicated only by a flashing light on the spot where you
+last listened to an explanation. As soon as you are within the coverage of
+a transmitter near a site the guide starts to play the corresponding text.
+They rent out this audio guide in the 故宫 (Forbidden City) in 北京.
+The little device combines three functions in one: an audio guide, a map of
+the area and a log of the places you have seen already.So you can see in one
+glance which parts of the area your have not seen yet. Very useful because
+the area is large and the streets between the palaces look the same with
+high walls on both sides.
+However, since the pavilions there are actually quite  close it sometimes
+starts playing a text about a pavilion when your still inside the previous one.
+As a result one tends to run to the next pavilion as soon as the corresponding
+text starts. But simple as this guide is, it works great.
+{{geotag>lat:39.91500, lon:116.39084, placename:Beijing , country:China}}
+{{fotos:kaarten:kaart-lingyin.jpg?200 }} 灵隐寺 (the Lingyin temple) in 杭州 (Hangzhou)
+is one of the larger temples covering a large area. Outside the temple there are
+a number of buddha statues carved into the rock of the mountain (dating back to
+Yuan dynasty). So they area is pretty large and the sites to see are dispersed.
+Here they rent out the mapping audio guides as well. The map covers the temple area
+and the road leading to the temple. In the Lingyin temple the guide works better
+than in Beijing. The locations where a text is played are further apart so you don't get
+to hear a text which is to be played at another location.
+{{geotag>lat:30.24341, lon:120.09655, placename:Hangzhou , country:China}}
+{{tag>en:map en:travel en:china}}