Shanghai Museum
Yuyuan Gardens
Mascot of the Shanghai expo: Baby Water Drop.
Mao and Obama
Friendly Shanghai Policeman
Shanghai Mosque
Shanghai skyline
On the way to Baofeng Lake ("The Abode of Immortals in the world.")
It's a pretty good hike to Baofeng Lake.
Where is that Baofeng Lake? I don't think I've ever seen so many stone steps.
Baofeng Lake
If you can sing three songs with her, you can marry her.
Still Baofeng Lake.
The bus driver is a Che fan
Do not provoke wild monkeys!
Think your job is hard for what it pays?
Monkeys! Remember, don't provoke them!
No, really. Don't provoke them. They really, really don't like it.
Aww. Monkeys!
Garden of secret maiden boudoir locket.
Dr. Livingston, I presume?
Big spider! The size of my hand, nearly!
How Pandora was made.
Herbal medicine
#1 Natural Bridge.
Sven with an accretion of wish lockets.
Eywa has heard you!
More medicine.
Big Caterpillar.
Cement plant, rural Hunan.
To market, rural Hunan.
House, rural Hunan.
Woman taking water buffalo somewhere.
Fishing, rural Hunan.
Fenghuang "Phoenix town"
Miao-style pork.
Wine store.
Lensy and Cindy, our guide.
Fenghuang door
Fenghuang restaurant
Mmm. Spicy Hunan cuisine.
Lucky bat and phoenix symbols, Fenghuang
River, Fenghuang
We called this the "Fenghuang Ponte Vecchio"
Washing day.
You can also marry this gal if you can sing three songs.
Aki in Fenghuang
Tea house on the bridge.
Signing some soon-to-be-married guy's banner. Local custom. Something like that.
Mmm. Spicy.
This guy waved a stick around for spare change.
The entree choices are duck, chicken, or some thing that's either a rabbit or a hedgehog. Take your pick.
Wine store. We bought one of the ones in front. Look for it in a later picture.
Smashing nuts. Hot work on a warm day.
Almost all of the tourists in Fenghuang were from China.
Happy sculpture
Modern city around Old Fenghuang.
Overtaking a gypsy motor(cycle)home.
You see one of everything on the road.
Changsha: growing like mad.
A whole new undergraduate campus for the allied universities of Changsha.
Cluster.
College kids: pretty much the same everywhere. In Changsha, they're just slightly more realistic than I'm used to.
The international Campus style.
Parasol = Lady.
Still on campus, now looks a little more Chinese and a little less international.
(On the left) Since they don't have parasols, these must be women instead of ladies.
Campus shuttle
Campus shopping district.
Dinner party
Whacko Shopping Center
2200-year-old diagnostic handbook
How to add 2 million people to a 1-million person city: 1. Tear down these.
2. Build these.
3. Repeat.
Red army goes for a run.
Tea house.
Sisters
Beijing
Tienanmen Square
Great Hall of the People
Recycling is suddenly a big deal in China.
Tienanmen Square Starbucks
BIke shop
Do not light firecrackers in front of the factory!
Science and technology incubator, next to our hotel
Jade carver
Ready for work
Be careful. Of something written only in Chinese.
Great wall
So far, so good!
The Great Wall is very steep in places!
So steep you have to climb it like a ladder.
Preserve our caltarel heritage.
Unrestored wall in bacground.
The General Electric Olympics?
Don't be a spanner.
Ming tombs
Peasants burned this in 1644.
The actual wall around the actual artificial hill that the actual tomb is in.
Putting in a sidewalk, Middle-of-Nowhere, China.
Bike path, Middle-of-Nowhere, China.
17-Arch Bridge, Summer Place, Beijing.
Temple of Timely Rains and Extensive Moisture - it works.
No really. The temple works fine.
Useless weapon system.
Forbidden City (We went in through the back door.)
Many trees had plaques. The plaques had serial numbers on them.
Adjacent trees often had sequential serial numbers.
The numbers were in the tens of billions. Did some Chinese bureau catalogue ten billion Chinese trees? It seems unlikely but not impossible.
Cafayah.
Pagoda Tree, Forbidden City
On the way from somewhere to somewhere else, Forbidden City.
Forbidden City. Motto: "You haven't seen the half of it. No really."
Half-built temple with a really complicated explanation. Forbidden City.
Chinese youth hold hands in public and wear decadent Western-inspired nightclub clothes to the Forbidden City. Yet another cultural revolution.
Fancy Hutong --what most of Beijing used to be like before they started putting up glass towers.
Old Chinese men get to smoke a pipe in front of their house with no shirt on.
Very small machine shop.
Chinese Chess, Beijing Hutong
Restaurant "hutong" near our hotel
Beef or chicken on a stick, your choice. Grilled on a coal fire while-u-wait.
I wonder if that restaurant on the left is any good?
Yes it is a good restaurant. It's a famous jiaozi (unfried potsticker) restaurant.
Mmm. jiaozi.
This place is literally 100 years old.
Well, that was yummy.
Meat-on-a-stick girl is still at it. So is the squid-on-a-stick guy next to her. The squid smelled very tempting, even after a bazillion jiaozi.
Next day, further into the same neighborhood.
Grocer.
And the mall.
Food court.
Cardboard recycler. He pays by the kilo.
Aki at the airport, ready to go home.
