Sun - Emils tested his camera while in home
Anders's trip started by visiting Riga - Academy of Science, Riga, Latvia
Monument of Freedom, Riga, Latvia
The journey starts
Volokalmsk. Note the locomotive engine.
Note the locomotive engine again.
Moscow metro is quite deep
It's not an arts gallery or dance hall, it's a metro
Museum of Cosmonautics, Moscow, Russia
Buran, Russian shuttle
Soyuz 4 and Soyz 5 - connected
Lunokhod 1
lunch
A. Pushkin
Swedish deadend
Museum of Matryoshka
Red Square
St. Basil's Cathedral
Kremlin wall
Kremlin clock
Mausoleum of V.Lenin
near Kremlin
metro again
train to Almaty
the hot water "machine" in the train
Railway bridge over river Volga near Saratov
Russian/Kazakh border
star watching "class"
Moon from the window of the train
our neighbours
the best cognac is Kazakhstan cognac
it's a lunch time again!
our provodnitsa or train attendant
who wants to be a millionaire (Kazakh tenges)
Almaty 2 railway station
Almaty is full of fountains
we travel mostly using public transportation
temperature
lovely city - lovely mountains
our nice host - we were able to have a shower here...
...and here
a thunderstorm is coming
Anders and a beautiful girl :)
Almaty TV tower
Alma means - apple
strange trees and their - flowers?
from Kok-tobe park
They have a small zoo also. Pretty deer girl?
We are cheering for The Beatles
panorama of Amaty from Kok-tobe
train to Urumchi
Our train is changing it's wheels
Chinese train attendants
it was a cold morning in the train
Urumchi - slums around and skyscrapers in the middle
Urumchi railway station
The 4th largest meteorite n the world
a view from Red-hill park
very old and important tower
Sitting for 30 hours is not easy
we were guarded by army men
Finally out of the train - in Xian
The south gate of Xian historical city
our hostel
public transportation again
Instant soups - they were everywhere
Delicious - jelly with fruits
On the way to the Army of Terracotta
Some strange bug
And some strange flower
Almost everyone loves jelly ;)
Bell tower
The west gate and the Drum Tower in the back
The south gate in the back
Performance in Bell Tower
Performance in the Drum Tower
The Bell tower from the Drum Tower
Don't you want to buy some bug?
Big goose pagoda...
... and the view from there
Train from Xian to Beijing
Bird's nest stadium
The olympic torch :D
traffic...
Aquatics center
A Christmas tree???
On our way to Jinshanling
Right before 10km walk
Simatai, we have walked a for 3,5 hours
Ancient observatory in Beijing
The local time is also 10:10am
The forbidden city
Throne of the Emperor
The lake near the Summer palace
train to Shanghai
the most modern train we took
delicious dumplings
What do vegeterians think about this menu?
To be an electrician in Shanghai is a dream job :)
Old town of Shanghai
The local attraction - Everita
A side-street of a side-street
A side-street of a side-street's sidestreet
We go to Jinshanwei to watch the Eclipse
The only room we were able to get had a single bed - for 8 people (the hotel managers never knew we took it for 8)
Playing Mah-jong
On the beach of Jinshanwei
We didn't see the diamond ring of Sun :/
2 min before the full phase
night in the middle of morning
The long video of the fast light-dark-light changes
Couchsurfing.org party jump
Rain started soon after the full phase
It was a great night...
going to Xitang - a Venice of China
the narrow lanes
Clothes getting dry everywhere
Skyscrapers of Shanghai
The TV tower
Train to Hangzhou, last day in China
West Lake
Anders had a tiny hostel room without windows. We are already experienced in fitting in a tiny room.
Petronas towers, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
The Jamek mosque and Emīls
Agnese and Kristīne, not the local women
Merdeka square
KL TV tower
We saw 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th tallest TV towers in the wold during this trip.
Zoo next to KL tower
London, on the way home
The Tallink ferry from Stockholm to Riga
Riga gate
home sweet home
MārtiņšK is fying to Luebeck
MārtiņšK is hitchhiking home
Anders has stayed in China for a couple more days
