getting on the first train
Rostock
More of the rainbow
Morning in Finland
Church in Tallinn
Great breakfast in tallinn hotel
Tallinn Square
Palace/park gardens, tallinn
The orthodox cathedral
Tallinn city view
View of red square in Moscow
Matthias on the transSiberian - in our first class cabin
Judy and Matthias in the dining car
Another village view
More wooden houses!
Matthias watching the scenery
Fellow travelers from Sweden
Village
Blurry shot of Ursula in station (but the only one I've got.)
Snow on the hills
Frosty siberia
Steam engine at one of the stations
Foliage
Sun about to come up
Sunrise over lake baikal
Riding along the lake
Snow covered mountains
Ulan Ude bridge
Nearing Mongolia
Border stop (six hours!!)
Sukbataar square in UB
ger (tent) city
Matthias in the market
Traditional ger (tent) near our hotel
Gandantegchinlen Khiid monastery
gd temple
young monks
Banging the gong
temple of the monestary
State department store - the big store
More ger tents in the city
State Department Store - Ulan Bator
Circus and surrounging mountains
Matthias and Chenggis Khan
Matthias in Ulan Bator
In our first class compartment on the UB-Beijing train
Mongolian Breakfast
Only shot of the train - from the train
Vast Mongolian Steppe
Mongolian herds
Camels!
Train station in Mongolia
More Camels
Camels from the train
Cool Mongolian dining car!
Another station in Mongolia
Chinese beer at the border
Mountains in China
Chinese countryside
View of great wall from the train
More of the great wall from the moving train
Mountains from the train
Valley from the train
Tienamen Square
Tienemen Square
Countown to 2008 games
Garden near forbidden city
Entrance to Forbidden city
Forbidden city
Forbiddencity
Judy in Forbidden city
In the forbidden city
Garden in the forbidden city
Opera house in forbidden city
Garden in Forbidden city
Matthias on street in Beijing
Matthias in Beijing Hutong
Judy enjoying breakfast in Beijing
Beijing West train station
Modern Beijing
Beijing Park
Great Wall
Judy on Great WAll
Judy on great wall again
Matthias on great wall
With the self timer
Judy at the great wall
Matthias on the great wall
Judy on great wall (again)
View from up high
Again with the self timer
MOre of the great wall
Great wall
Great wall in the distance
Walking the great wall
Steep stairs
Steep stairs and foliage
Judy and the fall foliage
Mountains
Matthias and colorful leaves
Just the foliage
More of the wall
Last photo of the wall (finally!)
Dining option near our hotel in Beijing
White Cloud Temple
Some random history museum, Beijing
Matthias being impatient