China
Some pictures from a one month trip through China.
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| Tiananmen Square | Mao Memorial Hall | |
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| The Forbidden City | ||
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| Zhongshan Park | Souvenir Shop | Beihai Lake |
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| Jingshan Park | Newspaper board | |
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| Temple of Heaven | ||
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| Fries rats, squids and other… delicacies | Nightlife | |
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| View from the CCTV Tower | ||
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| The Summer Palace | ||
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| Chinese tourists shopping for souvenirs | Landscape outside the city | |
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| Buddhist temple | People burning incense | Old trees at a Confucius temple |
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| Clinic | Street sign | |
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| Taxi, violating various traffic rules | In front of the railway station at Xi’an | |
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| The famous terracota army | Tourist infrastructure for the terracotta army | Near the center of Xi’an |
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| On the city wall | ||
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| Advertising | Temple at the summit of Mount Emei | |
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| Some of the thousands of steps leading up the mountain | ||
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| Monastery on the mountainside | ||
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| The monkeys will indeed do anything to get at your food… | ||
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| Potted water lillies | Bonsai trees | |
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| Agricultural Bank of China Building | Kangding | |
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| Between Kangding and Litang | ||
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| Refreshment stop | ||
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| Litang | Yak | Between Litang and Xiancheng |
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| Xiancheng | Buddhist monastery | |
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| Guesthouse | Road between Xiancheng and Dali | Yet another refreshment stop |
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| Dali | ||
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| Market | ||
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| Dog guarding a bicycle and a billiard table | “Net top surfing” | |
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| City wall | The three pagodas to the east of the city | “The team business carry out its place” |
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| Rock formations at Shilin | Good advice | Slippery path |
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| Kunming | ||
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| “Game City” | Vending machine | |
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| Crowd | Upmarket shopping area | |
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| “Copywhite” shop | ||
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| Dental clinic | Sunday afternoon at the park | |
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| Musicians | Students, painting | |
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| Goldfish in a feeding frenzy | Mahjong players | |
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| “No conflagration” | Girl, pulling a dragons beard (bad idea) | Mysterious passage |
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| Buddhist temple | Burning candles | Various signs |
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| At the zoo | Depressed bear | Peacock, showing off |
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| Traditional costume picture-taking | Photo retouching booth | |
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| Computer advertisement | On the train, hard sleeper class | Restaurant |
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| Boats from Guilin to Yangshuo | ||
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| Picture-taking frenzy | Bamboo raft | Boat kitchen |
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| Amazing scenery | ||
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| “Pay attention to cephalic safety” | Traffic jam | |
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| Yangshuo | Floating above Yangshuo | |
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| Excited school children | ||
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| Note the shadow… | Finally, hard landing | |
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| Bicycling around Yangshuo | ||
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| “Control the soil erosion” advice | View from atop Moon Hill | |
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| View through Moon Hill | ||
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| Moon Hill from below | Sunset | |
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| Guangzhou | Market selling dried seafood | |
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| Meat | ||
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| “Rules to public toilet” | Hong Kong by night | Ugly appartment buildings |
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| Cat guarding a box of dried lizards | “Brilliant Frozen Food Market” | |
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| Grilled things | ||
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| Part of the escalator through town | ||
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| Bank of China tower | ||
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| Two International Finance Center | ||
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| Hong Kong Island skyline | ||
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| Cheap dinner | Tropical fish for sale | |
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| “Chicks” for sale | More chicks | |
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| Skyline at night | Amazing light show | |
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| Concert Hall | Sai Kung Country Park near Hong Kong | Trail through the forrest |
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| Beach | ||
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| Various warning signs | ||
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| Back in Hong Kong | ||
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| Open air rock music | ||
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| Shanghai Pudong Airport | ||
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| The Maglev high speed train connecting the airport to the city | ||
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| Parking lot passing by at 430km/h | Blue trucks | Suburban area |
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| Shanghai | ||
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| Buildings, many red flags | ||
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| Shopping mall | ||
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| Policeman | Museum on People’s Square | |
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| “Don’t spit” compaign | ||
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| Yiyuan Garden | ||
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| Back in Beijing: Walking along the Great Wall near Simatai | ||
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February 11th, 2007 at 12:07
Dear Mr. Jain,
Thank you for placing your pictures from trip to China on Internet. You have made quite long journey through China! Very nice and beautyful pictures!!!!
It is a pity that resolution of photos is so small. All details are most interesting but I can not see them.
Best regards and once again thank you for sharing some pictures from your trip to China.
Andrzej Piechocki
February 12th, 2007 at 21:01
The quality of the pictures isn’t that good that they will benefit from being enlarged much. Then again I have less constraints on disk space now then I used to, so I’ve replaced the pictures with higher resolution versions. Enjoy!