The Zhongshan Park, is a former imperial garden and now a public park that lies just southwest of the Forbidden City in the Dongcheng District of central Beijing. The "Altar of Earth and Harvests" built in 1421 Of all the gardens and parks surrounding the Forbidden City, such as the Beihai and Jingshan, Zhongshan is arguably the most centrally located of them all.
The Zhongshan Park houses numerous pavilions, gardens, and imperial temples such as the Altar of Earth and Harvests or Altar of Land and Grain in some translations, which was built in 1421 by the Yongle Emperor, and it symmetrically opposite the Imperial Ancestral Temple, and is where the emperors of Ming and Qing dynasties made offerings to the gods of earth and agriculture. The altar consists of a square terrace in the centre of the park. By 1914, the altar grounds had become a public park known as the "Central Park".
That park was then further renamed in 1928 after Sun Yat-Sen (Zhongshan Park), in memory of China's first revolutionary political leader who helped bring about the first republic era in 1911, which is what the park is known as today.
Many parks in China during that period also took on this name (see Zhongshan Park). The Zhongshan Park includes various halls and pavilions built for the members of the imperial family, stone archways and a greenhouse which houses fresh flowers on display all year round. The greenhouse includes 39 varieties of tulips presented to the park in 1977 by the Princess of Holland.
After having found the first four caches of the Beijing Puzzle Parade, you will be able to solve the last puzzle and find the Bonus Cache.
I have placed two travel bugs in there that both want to travel to Muenster, Germany. If you are going in that direction, please take one of them and help them on their journey.
Note, that the coordinates given with this cache are not real.
To get to the cache, solve the attached Killer-Sudoku. The numbers A1, A2, A3, A4 can be retrieved from the other caches of this series. To view a higher resolution image than the one attached, click here.
The rules are as follows:
The objective is to fill the grid with numbers from 1 to 9 in a way that the following conditions are met:
Each row, column, and nonet contains each number exactly once. The sum of all numbers in a cage (the dotted lines) must match the small number printed in its corner.
No number appears more than once in a cage.
The coordinates of the cache are: N 39 (G9)(F5).(C3)(A7)(I2) E 116 (B8)(E5).(E7)(F9)(C2)
You can check your answers for this puzzle on Geochecker.com.
Enjoy the riddle and the cache.
