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| Jonathan Yarak | profile | all galleries >> Travel >> China 08 | tree view | thumbnails | slideshow |
 First day, made it to Tian'anmen just in time for sunset and flag lowering. |
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 The square was packed around the flagpole. It was also the 7th Asia-Europe meeting, hence the Vietnamese and British flags. |
 The flag in sunset. |
 People gathered on the Tian'anmen side. |
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 The next morning, blue sky!!!! |
 I had never seen the fountains on before. |
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 Finally a shot with blue sky and no renovations in progress! |
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 Never gets old. |
 Reppin' the iris shirt. |
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 Turtle! |
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 The White Pagoda of Beihai park peeking above the roofs of the Forbidden City. |
 Mom in the Forbidden City. |
 Main pagoda on top of Jing Shan park to the north of the Forbidden City. |
 I can only assume this was a royal feral cat since it was in the royal gardens. |
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 North exit of the Forbidden City. |
 Blue sky over Jing Shan Park. |
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 Wide shot of the Forbidden City from the top of Jing Shan. |
 Beihai's pagoda, or as the park itself called it, a "dagoba." |
 The Beijing TV Tower. |
 The lake at Beihai. |
 The National Grand Theater. |
 The CCTV Building on the left... something else on the right. |
 Roofs of the Forbidden City. |
 Looking north behind Jing Shan toward the drum tower. |
 The path down from Jing Shan. |
 White people gather where wi-fi is present. |
 The sun over Beihai. |
 Inside Beihai Park. |
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 Mom on the "Electric Battery Boat." |
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 Jing Shan from Beihai. |
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 Intricate parts of the white pagoda. |
 Kite flying at Houhai. |
 The next day, at Xiang Shan (Fragrant Hills). |
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 Looking from White Cloud Temple toward the top of Xiang Shan. |
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 White Cloud Temple. |
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 Still got it! |
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 Heading up to the top of Xiang Shan. |
 It was packed! |
 A madhouse! |
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 Crazy excavations. |
 The white cloud temple from the gondola. |
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 The haze rolled in obscuring everything. |
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 Leaving Fragrant Hills. |
 Some blue sky was still visible at sunset. |
 Special corn making. |
 All the bare essentials: Chinese flag, toilet paper, and white glasses with slits... |
 Cool glass (?) making. |
 Houhai at night. |
 The next day, walking through Wang Fu Jing shopping area to the subway. |
 Totally normal. |
 Old church. |
 Lama temple. |
 More lama temple. |
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 Sand paintings. |
 This was something like 26m high from a single piece of wood. |
 The two gates at the south of Tian'anmen Square. |
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 Probably my favorite picture of the trip. The Mao Mausoleum. |
 Looking toward the Grand Theater. |
 Front Gate. |
 The Mao Mausoleum. |
 The pretty looking Qian Men District. |
 The real Qian Men area. |
 The first movie theater in China, birthplace of Chinese film. |
 Abandoned Qian Men store fronts. |
 Old hotel? |
 Monument to the People's Heros at night. |
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 Houhai at night. |
 The next day, Bird's Nest at the Olympic Center, which was near our new hotel. |
 Inside the Bird's Nest. |
 The Pan Gu Plaza, 7 star hotel. |
 Sunset and the Pan Gu plaza reflected in the Water Cube. |
 Biggest jumbo tron EVER. |
 CIEE mini Reunion. Zheng Long, Me, Liang Jing, and Li Ya'nan. |
 The Pan Gu Plaza at sunrise. |
 They must have found something good. |
 The Bird's Nest at sunrise. |
 Later in the day, at Beida. |
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 Dried up lake at the north end of Beida. |
 Boya Tower at Beida. |
 Back at No Name Lake. |
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 Now at the Summer Palace. |
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 17 arch bridge. |
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 A member of People's Liberation Air Force and his son. |
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 The sun beginning to set over Longevity Hill. |
 Path around the south end of the lake. |
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 There was a very clear "no fishing" sign right next to me... |
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 The bridge at sunset. |
 Longevity Hill at sunset. |
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 Final shot before I got food poisoning, never to recover before returning home to the States :-(. |
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| Zoltán Balogh | 17-Nov-2008 09:32 | |