China
Here are some photos from a great trip to China.
Lion
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Forbidden City: Gate of Supreme Harmony
Hall of Supreme Harmony
Forbidden city alley way
Stone boat
Summer Palace
Temple of Heaven: The Imperial Vault of Heaven
Imperial tiles: Blue was the emperor's color and the dragon is the emperor's animal
Gate
Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests
Great Wall At Mutianyu
Steps: According to my FitBit I did 92 flights of stairs that day
Yonghe temple: Tibetan temple in Beijing
From Beijing to Xian using the high speed train
Xian: One of the gatehouses in the wall around Xian
Entrance gate of the Xian mosque
Xian great mosque pagoda
Phoenix pavillion
Hallway in the mosque
Xian bell tower
Xian video roof
Terracotta warriors: Pit 1, which contains most of the statues
Terracotta warriors
Front row
Terracotta warriors: Pit 2
Terracotta warriors Archer: Pit 3 still had the roof over the statues
Terracotta warriors Archer: This statue still has some of the original color
Giant Wild Goose Pagoda
The Xian unofficial Apple store had a statue of Steve Jobs (with an iWatch)
A lof of building going on
Shanghai as seen from my hotel
The Bund
Pudong
Dragon Wall
Yu Garden
The future is close behind
Jade in the Shanghai Museum
Urban planning exhibition
The Bund and Pudong
China Art Museum: Nice building, not much to see on the inside
A typhoon further south sent a lot of clouds to Shanghai
Due to the typhoon I missed my connecting flight so I had to spend a day in Hong Hong