China 2007 - Beijing, Shanghai, Kashgar and other places Photo Gallery by Maciej Dakowicz at pbase.com

China 2007 - Beijing, Shanghai, Kashgar and other places

photos from my 2-month long trip to China, August-September 2007

photos from Beijing, Pingyao, Xian, Urumqi, Kashgar, Shanghai, Guilin, Yangshuo and Guangzhou

thank you for your comments and votes

warm afternoon - Beijing	Dancing girls - Beijing	muezzin on the roof - Kashgar	walls - Beijing
big faces - Shanghai	roundabout - Shanghai	green ball - Shanghai	a young player - Xian
green alley - Beijing	care - Beijing	playing cards in hutongs - Beijing	a photo from th Great Wall - Badaling
night eating - Beijing	a small shop - Pingyao	sleeping couple - Beijing	there - Xian
a classic from Beijing	an empty bottle - Xian	roofs of Pingyao	Tai Chi - Pingyao
big glasses - Urumqi	admiring old things - Xian	souvenirs from China - Xian	blessed kiss - Kashgar
behind the donkey - Kashgar	girl in Shanghai	rice fields - Zhong Lu	Uigur Woman - Kashgar
a secret meeting - Kashgar	family dreams - Guangzhou	gossips - Kashgar	closed eyes - Kashgar
parking at night - Guangzhou	rice cooking - Kashgar	Dicos - Xian	McDonald's - Shanghai
in the crowd on the wall - Badaling	night rider - Beijing	man on the wall - Badaling	modern background - Shanghai
funky hair - Xian	two and three - Kashgar	faces - Shanghai	rice terraces - Ping An
night in hutongs - Beijing	houses of Ping An	Li River activities - Yangshuo	at McDonald's - Xian
two men - Beijing	walking together - Beijing	shop with instruments - Guangzhou	boys with a mule - Kashgar
crowded Xi Jie - Yangshuo	six people - Yangshuo	Uyghur man at the market - Kashgar	McDonald's friends - Shanghai
guarding Tiananmen Square - Beijing	checking the goats - Kashgar	waiting donkeys and people - Kashgar	house on the hill - Zhong Lu
a goat support	food and rice wine - Beijing	waiting in the car(t) - Kashgar	cow at the gate - Kashgar
mess with children - Beijing	a thin stool - Shanghai	photos with statues - Shanghai	modern shapes - Shanghai
family photo - Shanghai	modern Pudong - Shanghai	hand and camera - Shanghai	construction site - Shanghai
superman - Shanghai	windows - Shanghai	guide's foot - Shanghai	escalator - Shanghai
photo session - Guangzhou	Old Town traffic - Shanghai	girl and the old street - Shanghai	biking policeman - Shanghai
statues and people - Shanghai	arrow - Shanghai	modern Pudong buildings - Shanghai	blue hour - Shanghai
Pudong view from the promenade - Shanghai	restaurant window - Shanghai	brown interior - Shanghai	three tourists - Shanghai
McDonald's on Nanjing Road - Shanghai	stopped fountain - Shanghai	East Nanjing Road ads - Shanghai	drying clothes - Shanghai
Harry Potter in China - Shanghai	congested street - Shanghai	13 bottles - Beijing	tired in metro - Beijing
outside Temple of Heaven - Beijing	shades in metro - Beijing	tourists with cameras - Beijing	Tibetan Temple in the Summer Palace - Beijing
restoring hutongs - Beijing	affection in Beijing	brown wall - Beijing	cheers boys - Beijing
shooting the ceremony - Beijing	visiting a museum - Xian	green cave - Xian	opening soon - Xian
a wide street - Xian	a sleeping boy - Xian	thoughts - Xian	at the market - Xian
a woman on phone - Xian	walking people - Xian	Uyghur women - Kashgar	a girl in an old alley - Kashgar
a sleeping boy - Kashgar	youth hostel - Urumqi	night market wraps - Urumqi	three and three - Urumqi
vegetables - Urumqi	JUMBO bus - Urumqi	Harry Potter in Urumqi	Shoes from Pingyao
old Pingyao	card players - Pingyao	night in a mountain village - Ping An	night in Ping An
house on the hill - Zhong Lu	Perl River - Guangzhou	Five Rams Statue - Guangzhou	red dress - Kashgar
a goat means food - Kashgar	a girl and cars - Urumqi	prost! - Shanghai	a real estate agency - Guangzhou
The Great Wall tourists - Badaling	Susie - Shanghai	tourist on the bank of Li river - Yangshuo	shopping mall - Xi'an
night dancing - Beijing	two tourists - Beijing	big lips - Xi'an	clothes seller - Kashgar
at the square - Kashgar	two-wheellers - Kashgar	Uyghur hats - Kashgar	two women - Kashgar
bright spot - Shanghai	meeting - Kashgar	night lights - Shanghai	rows of goats - Kashgar
construction site behind the wall - Shanghai	demolished Old Town - Shanghai	traditional restaurant - Beijing	d5IMG8_6556.jpg
red pipes - Shanghai	Sunday Animal Market 1 - Kashgar	Sunday Animal Market 2 - Kashgar	Sunday Animal Market 3 - Kashgar
parents and Pudong skyline - Shanghai	closed eyes cycling - Guangzhou	colours of East Nanjing Road - Shanghai	a singing contest winner - China
girl and Pudong skyline - Shanghai	blue poster - Shanghai	two umbrellas - Beijing	subway rush - Beijing
TV in a restaurant - Beijing	man with a truck - Beijing	orange ice-cream - Beijing	tourist and temple - Beijing
a girl at the station - Beijing	junction - Beijing	two guards - Beijing	visiting the Great Wall - Badaling
family and Mao - Beijing	a couple and two women - Beijing	souvenirs from the Great Wall - Badaling	neon lights - Shanghai
guard and the Olympics clock - Beijing	people and wall - Beijing	Pudong skyline - Shanghai	combing a dog - Beijing
orange umbrella - Beijing	a street scene - Beijing	men waiting for a bus - Xian	a woman on the street - Xian
a man on the street - Xian	black shoes - Xian	another photo from the Great Wall - Badaling	Mao and China flag - Beijing
tourists by Qianmen Gate - Beijing	night dining out - Beijing	man under tree - Yangshuo	karst peaks and Li river - Yangshuo
busy night - Yangshuo	red lights - Yangshuo	busy Xi Jie - Yangshuo	two girls - Guangzhou
woman waiting - Guangzhou	sunrise on Li river - Yangshuo	monk's playground - Guangzhou	taking photos - Yangshuo
old alley - Guangzhou	karst peaks - Yangshuo	waiting hall of the train station - Beijing	admiring the scenery - Yangshuo
Ronald's friend - Guangzhou	Terracotta Army - Xian	Terracotta Army pits - Xian	Terracotta Army pits 2 - Xian
a photo with the Terracotta Army - Xian	Terracotta Army Museum visitors 1 - Xian	Terracotta Army pits 3 - Xian	important call - Xian
guard and finger - Xian	Terracotta Army Guard - Xian	Terracotta Army pits 3 - Xian	Terracotta Army pits 4 - Xian
Terracotta Army pits 5 - Xian	Terracotta Army pits 6 - Xian	Terracotta Army soldier - Xian	two visitors - Xian
admiring details - Shanghai	Holiday Inn - Guangzhou	Terracotta Army Museum visitors 2 - Xian	Terracotta Army soldier 2 - Xian
modern city - Guangzhou	rest and bike - Beijing	Terracotta Army soldiers - Xian	Terracotta Army pits 7 - Xian
outside a shop - Guangzhou	prayer - Guangzhou	old city Gate at night - Pingyao	bicycle problem - Pingyao
two men with bicycles - Pingyao	mobile phones and cigarettes - Pingyao	evening rush - Pingyao	man outside the wall - Pingyao
snack street cooking - Pingyao	tourists on the Great Wall - Badaling	woman and umbrella - Pingyao	a dog - Pingyao
motorbike outside the city wall - Pingyao	men playing cards - Pingyao	Terracotta Army museum visitors 2 - Xian	a goat support - Kashgar
beer in Urumqi	playing domino 1 - Urumqi	a lesson outside 1 - Urumqi	a backstreet - Urumqi
raining outside - Urumqi	four kids - Urumqi	girls and a dog - Urumqi	boy with a parent - Urumqi
the city gate - Pingyao	nuts at the market - Kashgar	Mao Zedong - Kashgar	evening rush - Pingyao
unpaved road - Pingyao	yuans - Urumqi	wide road - Kashgar	congested road - Shanghai
reading a newspaper - Pingyao	street scene - Urumqi	Chinese art shop - Yangshuo	men on phones - Urumqi
three men - Urumqi	playing mahjong 2 - Urumqi	tourists in Pudong - Shanghai	guard on the city wall - Pingyao
street scene - Pingyao	a lesson outside 2 - Urumqi	architecture 1 - Shanghai	golden - Urumqi
two mannequins - Shanghai	Shanghai cityscape	East Nanjing Road neons - Shanghai	morning practicing - Shanghai
Pudong skyline at night - Shanghai	three couples - Shangai	morning exercises - Shanghai	JJ club - Pingyao
calling from a shop - Kashgar	mahjong - Urumqi	cooking at the market - Kashgar	painted fans - Fuli
city panorama - Shanghai	outside the city wall - Pingyao	street from above - Pingyao	modern shop - Shanghai
street scene - Urumqi	watermelons - Kashgar	Tai Chi on Bund - Shanghai	guard and waitress - Shanghai
romance - Shanghai	red dress - Kashgar	teenagers - Xi'An	ticket office - Shanghai
notice - Urumqi	seven lanes - Shanghai	bar on the Bund - Shanghai	call - Kashgar
dentist - Kashgar	barber - Kashgar	meat on grill - Kashgar	Chini Bagh Hotel lobby - Kashgar
red lanterns and bicycle - Pingyao	dining outside - Urumqi	Uyghur restaurant - Kashgar	public toilet - Kashgar
red chilli - Longhsheng	bicycle and roofs - Pingyao	dopas for sale - Kashgar	bar - Shanghai
boatman - Yangshuo	white pigeons - Urumqi	three parked cars - Urumqi	boy on cart - Kashgar
working men - Urumqi	girl in yellow - Shanghai	tie and phone - Xi'An	pavement games - Xi'An
crowded subway train - Beijing	phone ad and old man - Xi'An	elderly people exercising - Urumqi	twins - Kashgar
chinese game - Urumqi	Id Khar Mosque - Kashgar	setting up table - Urumqi	stairs - Urumqi
pushchair - Kashgar	watching prices of stocks? - Xi'an	street opera - Urumqi	karst peaks - Yangshuo
two mannequins - Kashgar	two mannequins - Kashgar	street restaurant - Kashgar	cry - Kashgar
crowded bus - Kashgar	sunday market goats - Kashgar	grilling - Kashgar	three men and bread - Kashgar
big screen TV - Kashgar	smoke from grill - Kashgar	visiting Temple of Heaven - Beijing	party in Sanlitun - Beijing
donkeys - Kashgar	pink - Kashgar	preparations - Kashgar	Mao Zedong statue - Kashgar
Uyghur man - Kashgar	crowded market - Kashgar	wooden support - Kashgar	copper - Kashgar Old Town
18:35 Bund - Shanghai	portrait drawing - Shanghai	blue ads - Shanghai	girl in red dress - Kashgar
boy's portrait - Kashgar	children in the Old Town - Kashgar	cooking - Kashgar	photo together - Xi'An
visitors - The Great Wall	bus ride - Urumqi	tourists - The Great Wall	photos - Kashgar

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Tim van Woensel		26-Mar-2010 19:36
A lot of very interesting and original shots Maciej! China is a must see.

Gharib Hanif		28-Nov-2009 17:57
Good gallery. Maybe you should have ordered the photos in city order rather than mix them up.

John Paskey		11-Nov-2009 14:18
Fantastic gallery Maciej. How' ya ' get so good. Great work, as always. John

mayachristine		10-Jun-2009 17:55
wonderful pic. especially to take some human actions and catch their facial expressions.

Dallas Hyatt		21-Apr-2009 14:17
Wonderful representation. Very creative! Makes me want to go and take photographs.

silvia marmori		21-Jan-2009 14:06
i just discover thsi wonderful gallery.. such a trip i made through the slideshow of your images.. vivid portrait of a culture showing the soul within superb work..

Gennady Zaturensky		16-Sep-2008 20:24
Great gallery of a great city, well done. I would love to go back there again. Vote!

Ashley Hockenberry		27-Aug-2008 18:41
Superb !!

XiaoBernard99		31-Jul-2008 18:15
A very great collector of pictures of CHINA.I like so the same place as we can in your pictures.A lot of pictures are very interesting and well done.PoV often very great.Big Work.Big vote.

whitehorsephotography		30-Jul-2008 13:56
Fantastic gallery!

Lee Chow		29-Jul-2008 22:17
hello everyone

Lin Chia-Yi		15-Jul-2008 14:44
Great work!!!

Marcos Garc�a		14-Jul-2008 13:02
Magnificent series. GMV

thomas		03-Jul-2008 18:19
excellent reportage and street shots! some of your people shots are really funny! bravo, V

Ashley Hockenberry		19-Jun-2008 22:34
Outstanding !!

oleg_inca		14-May-2008 10:10
This is real reportage! realy perfect,can be on magnum

Steve Morris		11-May-2008 09:17
An amazing gallery full of interesting and lively compositions! A fantastic documentary of China of both people and place!!! Big vote!

Trance		24-Apr-2008 07:22
good compositions .. I Loved your all pics

Jaime Serrano		19-Apr-2008 10:10
Wonderful street gallery!!!; I like how you saw China, images with great feeling. Congratulations. V.

tomaszd		22-Feb-2008 11:23
Maciek, Your Shanghai is so colourfull. I was in Shanghai too but only for few hours.And I have to go there again ;-))) My shoots - www.pbase.com/tomaszd

Jose Canovas		14-Jan-2008 19:21
Sorry, it was a bit poor my comment. You are a master with all the honours!

Jose Canovas		14-Jan-2008 19:13
Yeah. Compliments!

sebas veldhuisen		08-Dec-2007 21:56
This is a very good travel report! compliments.

Brad Troy Photography		22-Nov-2007 05:21
I like the wide range of shots in this gallery. Nice work!

Luca Zanoni		04-Nov-2007 13:42
very interesting gallery v

david procter		01-Nov-2007 15:57
I've just returned from a conference in Beijing and it struck me as a really exciting place. I wandered the Hutongs and I hope they're still there when I return.You've a good range here.

Vladimir Babkin		14-Oct-2007 11:31
Bravo!

David Dong		08-Oct-2007 22:21
Thanks for the wonderful images, hope you had a enjoyable summer vacation :)=

Kokomo Photography		08-Oct-2007 02:10
More to come I presume?

MarkoP		14-Sep-2007 10:18
nice work

simon kolton		13-Sep-2007 06:54
hello Maciej i like this galerie about China how are you long time not see

patrickjoust		06-Sep-2007 16:52
I love this gallery. So much life and so interesting. Nice work!

Milan Vogrin		05-Sep-2007 12:32
Nice presentation

rkomenda		29-Aug-2007 16:42
spoko galeria, widze ze sie rozkrecasz, voted

David Dong		29-Aug-2007 01:54
Welcome to a new & old world, enjoy your trip and looking forward to the update

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