Forbidden city entrance
Forbidden city anteroom also used for basketball and army training
Forbidden city--some roofs from a bridge
Meow. Home sweet home, says lion with major claws mauling its young
so many tourists, so little space
Rock garden in Forbidden city
More forbidden city garden
Rocks in rock garden. Read the signs.
If you build it on top of a big rock, many people will take pictures of themselves with the rock
wild beasts
mini lion
i'm a daring animal trainer!
my petting zoo
lion den
next to Forbidden city
Street in Forbidden city (no echo)
no, they didn't let me try it on
Tiananmen square
I was actually trying to take a picture of these little kids running with the kites--probably the only ones not feezing to death that day.
stranded on a rock at summer palace
ah, the great wall - 1
the great wall - 2
the great wall - 3
the great wall - 4
the great wall - 5
Fernando on a tower -- no flag yet
the great wall - 6
the great wall - 7
Welcome to Pingyao!
Pingyao street with drunk guy
You must spend the next 48 hours hopping up and down these heaps of dirt and manure!
You can also take a taxi for a block or two--until the road becomes unpassable
Or you could just walk--the whole city has around 80 streets--inside the walls that is
Biking outside the walls
Trying to find a place to scale the Pingyao wall
Old dude on a donkey cart
The closest I got to scaling the wall--scaling the gate in front of it
Mystery person in Pingyao in snow--hey, it can only do so much for the dirt; and not that much for the smell.
A very informative sign in a window
Me on a lion. with horns.
Onward to Xi'an!!! And not a moment too soon! Unfortunately this is the only picture that survived from my trip to terracotta warriors. I'm not sure what happened. Also of note, the pictures of cave buddhas have also all blacked out. I wonder if there's some special lighting installed?
Welcome to mid-west (chinese-style)--Xi'an south gate-ward
Xi'an --north (you can only sort of see the gate at the end of the street.... if you squint very very hard. this really wasn't trying to be a joke. honest)
Xi'an city wall - 1
Xi'an city wall - 2
Monks running away after I got on the wall
Robert looking fuzzy on the wall
Me, looking asleep on the wall
View from the Xi'an wall
Chinese checkers, as witnessed from the wall
Kaifeng
