Resting at Narita in the passenger's lounge downstairs.
Shanghai - Day 1. View from the hotel room
View directly below the hotel window
The first of many McDonald's, it turns out.
Chinese McDonalds. We did not buy anthing this time.
In the early morning, we went to Xiangyang Park and saw many people out practicing Tai Chi and other arts.
Pietro Restaurant - A Japanese Italian restaurant in China... we had dinner here one night.
We went to the Shanghai Museum.
Ceramic Dog
A huge set of bells.
1000 Buddhas
Statues outside the Shanghai Museum.
View from Linda's Dad's Wife's Brother's condo in Shanghai.
Rest Stop on the way to Suzhou - site of stinky tofu sales.
Chinese English is even more fun than Japanese English.
The Leaning Pagoda of Suzhou.
Yes it's actually leaning. No, they don't let you climb it.
Money does grow on trees.
A huge Bonsai garden.
There were a lot of mosaics in the gardens we visited.
This is the Master of Nets garden in Suzhou. Very similar to the chinese garden in Portland, OR.
Linda's Dad remembers this theater from when he was in Nanjing 50 years ago.
Dr. Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum in Nanjing. It is huge.
Actually, the view looking down or up is the most impressive part.
Japanese Damage
At the Ming Tomb, Nanjing
Nanjing Botanical Garden
Animals in front of the Ming Tomb.
Area in front of the Confucian Temple in the center of town.
We ate outdoors at a very expensive restaurant ( maybe $15/person for something like 30 courses ).
We were served turtles here.
View from the restaurant at night.
School in an alley near where Linda's Dad lived in Nanjing.
Nanjing's old city wall.
At ?? Park in Nanjing.
Buddhist vegetarian restaurant in Nanjing.
View from high up Jin Mao tower in Shanghai. We had dinner at a buffet there.
Jin Mao Tower from the bottom.
Shanghai at Night
Pearl TV Tower ... again.
View from almost the top of Pearl TV Tower. We waited two hours to get to the top, and this view is actually better - no windows.
Conservatory in Shanghai Botanical Garden. Over six stories high - a very impressive structure.
Yuyuan Garden, Shanghai.
Famous rock diverted from the Emperor's gardens.
Dragon Wall at the Yuyuan in Shanghai.
Famous dumplings - 2 hour line. We got nothing but pictures.
The Bund.
Shanghai Skyline from the Bund.
Traffic on the Huangpu River.
Strange Fruit.
We are in Beijing now. Tiananmen square is behind the camera, Forbidden City is behind Tiananmen Gate, which is what's in the picture.
10 minutes walk from the hotel.
Probably the most intersting parts of the buildings in the Forbidden City are the ceilings. Followed closely by the roofs.
I don't know which gate or building this is. They are pretty much all in the same style.
Some sort of Chinese Gargoyle.
Animals on the corners of the roofs. For protection.
Channels for floating wine cups.
Donghuamen Night Market - some of these vendors will try to cheat you. On the other hand, you can get deep fried silk worm cocoon here - yum. :)
Some kind of Beijing street food.
Scenes from the Summer Palace.
Writing in water on the pavement.
Long Corridor. In fact, the longest garden cooridor in China.
Chinese roofs are often missing a ridge cap.
Boat Houses
The famous stone boat.
We took this boat across the lake.
This is the old summer palace. A lot less busy.
This is the ruins of a European garden section of the summer palace. This in particular is a restored labyrinth.
Tiananmen Square. It's big, it's flat. People fly kites there.
Obligatory Great Wall Pix.
The great wall is a brilliant tourist attraction - they restored a really tall steep part, so you actually have something to do when you visit - climb.
View from the top. Taken by Japanese tourists.
Another Ming Tomb, near the great wall at Badaling. Basically same as the one at Nanjing.
More Chinese English.
