Shanghai…
The best city I’ve seen in China. There are honestly too many things to say about it. It was just unbelievably great. Would go back in a heartbeat. It was definitely worth the 1400 km train ride. The city, the expo, the people, the feeling, the food, the… Rate this:
National center for performing arts
It is a controversial building, right across the street from the Forbidden city. built 3 years ago before the olympics and going strong today with some really high profile shows, it’s an amazing place. To go in, you go under the lake sorrounding the building, really cool… Rate this:
Old summer palace
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Frangrant Hill in all its glory
Grab a nice afternoon, full of sunshine and feelgood. and go to the fragrant hill, just outside of beijing. now, for all of you campers who are not sure what to think, Fragrant hill is actually a bigass mountain, looking over the city. initially, one would think this is a place of great serenity and … Read more
Experiments
Here are some pics that are basically experiments. I will update this post from time to time. Rate this:
Datong…
The ugliest, most polluted city we’ve been to, but the sights are definitely worth going. The hanging monastery and the yong ang shiku are very nice and unique. I personally prefer these grottoes to the ones next to luoyang (longmen shiku). Getting to the hanging monastery is pretty funky, buy a ticket at the local … Read more
Temple of Heaven
have you noticed how all the temples tend to look pretty much the same. well, if you haven’t, we certainly have. but then, there comes the Temple of Heaven. Rate this:
Jinan and Tai’shan
a small exercise in empathy. Imagine the following: it’s golden week in China (this is an entire week off for most of the population of the country – the only one every year); we decided to go on a tour of several locations relatively far from Beijing. and by relatively far i mean 12-14 hours … Read more
How would you change my blog?
As i love all my readers , i’m really curious if you would like to change anything in the blog, so please fill out the poll. It’s possible to select a maximum of 3 answers. Thanks! b UPDATE: thanks for the votes!! as most of you would like more text in the posts, and … Read more
The Summer Palace – in pictures
Take an extremely bright, sunny but smoggy day and stroll down to the summer palace. ancient playground of the emperors and empresses. rebuilt from stolen navy money by empress Cixi for her own pleasure; and this is what you’ll see. Rate this:
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