| JON'S CHINA PICTURES |
Where did we go on this fantastic trip? See the itnierary here
Click on a picture to see the bigger version. These are from a "proper" 35mm camera.
If you want to see some video captures, then click over here.
If I've got anything wrong, let me know.
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First day proper at Tiananmen Square. L-R, Mary, Gemma, Dus, Jon. |
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"Goodness, gracious, Great Wall of China!" as Jerry Lee Lewis might have sung |
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Guess whose camera has a "panorama" facility? |
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Jon at the Great Wall, not long before a failed attempt to toboggan down it. |
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Mary, Dus and Gemma at the Great Wall. |
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Great Wall, from top, Mary, Gemma, Dus. Too many gawping locals prevented a perfectly posed shot. |
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Beijing Opera. Taken after Jon had been asked to whack the big kung fu bloke and after he had fallen asleep. |
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| Beijing Opera - Janet with the Monkey King. |  |
| Dus at the Summer Palace, attempt at a good photo ruined by inept cameraman. |  |
| Jon at the Summer Palace, hiding his disappointment at not being able to go out on the boat. |  |
| Group at the Summer Palace; L-R Dus, Mary, Jon, Gemma. I think this was the first tme we had multiple group shots while being gawped at by the locals. |  |
| Xi'an - Great Mosque; L-R Dus, Mary, Janet's mother, Gemma, Janet, Jon. We all liked Xi'an, Dus sharpened her haggling skills for later on and we bravely ventured to the local dumpling restaurant, twice! |  |
| Jon and the Terracotta Warriors. What can you say other then "bleeding 'ell". |  |
| Jon at the Longmen Grottoes, Luoyang. Not our favourite city, but an interesting line in restaurants offering a variety of diseases. |  |
| Night market at Kaifeng. Taken just before Dus got chatted up by the local midget and about an hour before she used her mastery of Mandarin to order dinner blind from the menu. |  |
| Wuxi boat trip; Mary, Gemma, Janet and Dus. IT should have been a longer trip but one of the disadvantages of SARS was that the original trip down to Suzhou was cancelled and we had to take the train. |  |
| Wuxi boat trip - Jon. Documentary proof of a tan. |  |
| Suzhou - Humble Administrator's Garden. Don't we all look relaxed? So we should, this was one of the most beautiful places we visited. Jon celebrated by smashing his head against the minibus whilst trying to avoid a beggar. |  |
| Shangers, baby, Shangers! Photo taken by Mary's daughter, Becky. Shopping frenzy followed, but for now we just boiled in the 90º Shanghai heat. |  |
| Shangers - Dus haggles in the market. "I bought one over there for 20 YTuan!". Would you argue with her? |  |
| Shangers - Yu Yuan statues. In a field in the middle of nowhere, all of these amazing statues. |  |
| Soft sleeper waiting room. Except...... the beds weren't that soft and nobody slept that much. Was this the journey where the waitress in the restaurant car moved that man's dinner to try and get him away from a table? It wasn't the journey where Gemma and Janet tried to bounce a suitcase off some poor bloke's head. |  |
| Hangzhou - Jon and Gemma at Lingyin Temple. Another beautiful day at a beautiful place. |  |
| Longshen - Dus, Mary, Gemma and Jon with the cut-throat saleswomen of the Yao tribe. It was wetter than it looked. They all belonged to the same family but were competing for our custom. As Joe the local guide said "Communism is dead in China now". |  |
| Yangshuo - Jon takes a break from sweating at the top of Moon Hill. Great view. |  |
| View from top of Moon Hill, panorama mode again. |  |
| View from top of Moon Hill, with someone's shoulder in the way. |  |
| THIS WAY TO PINK HAT MAN!! | |
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