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Beijing - view from the IBM
office. A normal modern city skyline, but note that these
photos required significant touching to get them this clear; in
reality the smog or haze was so thick that on some days visibility was as low as a hundred meters; on one day I
couldn't see the top of the building next to the IBM office - even
though I was on the 21st floor.
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View from the IBM office building
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Workers stadium - for football
matches - is right downtown |
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Beijing - view from Neil's hotel window.
These were taken on a clearer day.
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You can put these
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| Forbidden City. These photos were
taken on a weekend; it was hot and the sky really was as clear
& blue as these photos show (and sometimes washed out because
it was so bright). |
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Explanation
about the Forbidden City (note the sponsorship by American Express
- bottom right corner) |
Entrance gate to the Forbidden
City |
In China it's very hard to get a
photo without lots of people in it |
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especially on a bright, summer's day ... |
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there are tourists everywhere. |
Rear view of Tiananmen Gate |
| On the other side of the Forbidden City
is Tiananmen Square |
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Tiananmen Gate |
Cannons & shop in rear plaza |
Detail of the building |
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Chinese flag
with Mao's mausoleum behind |
National Museum of
China |
The Great Hall of the People |
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Arial
Panorama - caution - big file - 338K |
| A first trip to China isn't complete
without visiting the Great Wall |
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Mao said you are not complete
until you have scaled the Great Wall |
Doesn't look too tough |
But it's steeper than it looks |
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This
is as far as I climbed on one side |
Watch towers on the wall ... |
... provide good photo opportunities |
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Then I went on the other side ... |
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Did I mention it is steep |
As in - very - steep! |
I walked all around this trail
& back again |
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And
found this in the little temple on the left |
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I went to Shanghai for a few
days |
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My hotel boasted a big garden - a
luxury in Shanghai |
This is a private garden in an
old part of the city |
In China they talk about
"simplified" vs. traditional characters |
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Click on the picture
above & you'll see some characters have been "pasted
over". The old ones are the traditional chars & the
new ones are simplified
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