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Leaving the Lijiang with a cup of coffee latte at the airport.
Arrived at Beijing at 0030 in the early morning of Apr 5th. |
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the Park
Plaza Hotel, Beijing was a very decent hotel with all the facilities.
the room at the 10th floor. |
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the North view from the room.
the South view from the room. |
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the East view from the room, facing
the rising sun.
Another East View. |
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Apr 5th, time to go downtown
Peking. A local post office tower.
Dahli explaining the area we visited. |
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Burning Stove for offering.
Bridal pairs are popular. |
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Roy is dancing whenever there is a
chance. Visit to a silk factory. Seen here are
the silk worms. |
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Spinning the silk.
the raw silk is stacked up. |
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the silk is not cheap. Here are the
prices. US $ 1,- = 6,20 Yuan. the local silk store. |
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Martin is having a beer
in the lobby bar. And later that night, a pepper
steak around the corner. It was very nice. |
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the sun sets over
Beijing. Quite a nice picture. the next day, new
adventures. |
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Fancy entrance to the
forbidden city. Roy with friends. |
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Chin Neman Square where
the commies slaughtered some 2000 innocent students. Mostly the only child
in the family. Today's commie soldiers does not
know anything about this, and if he knew, he would not tell. |
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Zhao De Men, Gate of
Manifesting Virtues, whatever that means.
Forbidden city in the background. |
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Grain measure, the
story of. Large stone carvings and their
stories.
Another entrance. |
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Heavenly Purity
for the dirty bunch of us. A big fancy stone |
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Another temple of
worship. Back to the city. |
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the following day, Apr
6th, time for the Great
Wall. the biggest manmade construction in the world. |
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Roy on the Great Wall,
he danced on it as well.
Roy with some Chinese tourists on the wall.
then time to buy some precious stones. |
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Painting porcelain is a
time consuming job. See all the videos for the day
here.
Fancy building downtown Beijing. |
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Another pagoda or
whatever. Another of these Chinese building
constructs.
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Time for a cup of tea.
Buddhist incense for what it is worth. Click and read.
A water way. |
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Fancy downtown building
in Beijing. the commies know how to put their
hard earn currency to work. |
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Part of the Olympic
Park from 2008 where the Chinese showed off their accomplishments as Hitler
did in 1936. the group outside the gates of the
park. |
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the restaurant where
the group had their last meal together.
It was a very fancy restaurant as you can see
on the picture. |
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We got Peking Duck.
Very tasty and very fatty. It was served after everyone had filled up their
bellies with other food. |
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