Album 1: Beijing and the Great Wall Photo Gallery by Paul Dudley at pbase.com

Album 1: Beijing and the Great Wall | Album 2: Xian and the Terracotta Army | Album 3: Guilin and the Lijiang | Album 4: Kunming and the Stone Forest | Album 5: Chongqing, an overnight stop | Album 6: Yangtze River and the Three Gorges | Album 7: Wuhan: Museums and a quiet lake | Album 8: Hangzhou: Prosperity, tea, and a monastery | Album 9: Wuzhen, an ancient canal town | Album 10: Suzhou: Silk, canals and gardens | Album 11: Shanghai: 16 million people, pet crickets and a museum the shape of a turtle. | Album 12: There and back: Airports

Album 1: Beijing and the Great Wall

Beijing is where the ancient city walls have been demolished to make ring roads, where Frances's luggage
arrived a day late, where there are rows of large shops all selling nothing but mobile phones, where
old housing is bulldozed and replaced by high rise apartment buildings (where families don't have to share
their bathroom but consequently live in isolation), where street stalls sell grasshopper kebabs, and where
we sat down to breakfast at the table Jimmy Carter had just vacated. The start of our tour of China.

Gates of Tiantan Park		Red, Grey and Blue	Tiantan Park	Sign: East Annex
East Annex Hall, Frances and camera	East Annex Hall, Tiantan Park	Whispering gallery not working today	Exercise	School Excursion
Amazing! A place with no people!	Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests (2003)	Sign at the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests	Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests - Roof	Ancient pavement restoration
Musician	Music in a "social corner"	A quiet men's game	"Yes, your credit card will be fine!"	This particular shade of red is favoured here
Chinese Lion				Here we are: a camera each, and a Chairman Mao watch
Detail of door, Hall of Preserving Harmony	For the emperor's public service exams	Throne Room	Handle of big fire bucket	Sign: Bao He Dian
		Dragons everywhere	The Emperor's Clocks	Balcony for concubines
Agonised trees in the Emperor's garden	Grand Hotel Atrium	Sample of Beijing life, seen from our hotel window	A jade workshop	For the tourists: a jade Buddha in the making
Great Wall at Badaling, near Beijing	A touristy section of the Great Wall	From the Great Wall, China goes on and on.	From a tower on the Great Wall	Me (Paul) in hot tourist mode
The wall goes on past the tourist bit	Shengong Shengde Stele Pavillion, near the Ming Tombs	Tai Chi for mowers, near the Stele Pavillion	The Sacred Way, near the Ming Tombs	Endangered species
Warrior	Gentle elephant	Restored Ming Tomb	Toilet sign at the Ming tombs	Orchestra at the Peking Opera
Plot obscure, costumes wonderful	Drama at the Peking Opera	Street scene with cabbages	Typical corner in the Beijing hutong area	In a local market in the hutongs, old Beijing
Electrician's nightmare in the hutongs	A retired accountant in her home	Kitchen of a retired accountant	A kindergarten, formerly a rich man's house	Kindergarten children
Playground equipment	Cloisonne worker	Cloisonne worker	Summer Palace: near the entrance	At the Summer Palace
Summer Palace: Electric boats for hire	Pondweed, Summer Palace	From the lakeside, Summer Palace	At the Summer Palace	The "marble boat" on Lake Kunming, Summer Palace
Soldiers in Tiananmen Square	From our hotel, after rain last night	Construction in Beijing	Bored panda	"Sorry, you can't take that in your cabin luggage!" So ........

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