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A Wonderful Trip

UDudria ·75 photographs ·1 Jun 2001 – 20 Jun 2001 ·20 days
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Where
Beijing, Xi'an, Guilin, Shanghai · cina
When
1 Jun 2001 – 20 Jun 2001
20 days · trip of 2001
Who
Andrea Bocchi · @udria · Genova
How
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The story

An organised trip, wonderful places from the first to the last, and the Chinese are nice too (in their friendliness and their ability to understand tourists without pestering you); the organisation was excellent, only the food is lacking, not yet international. I don't like soy, and to get milk at breakfast you have to make an effort; the places are worth remembering. All the cities are nothing short of fantastic and the Terracotta Army in Xian is memorable.

The journey's photographs

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arrival in BeijingMinistry building in Beijing, traditional Chinese roof, red flag, passing carsBusy Beijing intersection with traffic, traffic lights and towers under hazy skyBus and cars under a red monumental gate in BeijingTraditional stone tower in Beijing, people walking under grey skyTIANANMEN SquareTourist in front of the Great Hall of the People, Beijing, marble columns and parked carsGroup of tourists posing on Tiananmen Square, Beijing, with red flagsRed-roofed pavilion in Beijing's Forbidden City under hazeVisitors reading the bronze map plan of the Forbidden City, BeijingThe Forbidden CityTourist beside the bronze lion statue in the Forbidden City, BeijingNine-Dragon Wall in Beijing, glazed ceramic tiles under grey skyImperial kingfisher-feather crown with pearls, museum display case, soft lightingThe Imperial Throne in Beijing, golden throne in dim hallTwo tourists in front of the Forbidden City hall, BeijingTemple of Heaven in Beijing, blue circular roof on marble terraceLarge bronze Buddha statue draped in yellow cloth, incense sticks and flowers, templeCeramic vases and censer displayed on red velvet in a museumSoldiers marching in the Forbidden City, Beijing, red walls and golden roofsAt the Station TRAINOrnate painted wooden archway at Wangfujing food market entrance, BeijingMan loading scrap onto cargo tricycle, Qianmen street, BeijingRound table with Chinese dishes, duck and vegetables, tea and bottlesButcher stalls at a Chinese market, blue signage, customers and vendors at workCovered market with meat stalls, hanging cuts lit by bare bulbsGlass tanks full of live eels at the fish marketFish market with water tanks, vendors and customers among hoses and ropesAt the Great Wall(8000 Km)Tourists walking along Great Wall towers and ramparts under grey skyWoman climbing the Great Wall, stone steps, tourists and green hillsTourists walk along the stone Great Wall winding over green hills at BadalingBlonde woman stands on Great Wall steps among green hillsWoman beside the bronze horses of the terracotta army, Xi'anTerracotta Army statues in excavated earthen trenches under Xi'an museum hallTerracotta Army: thousands of clay soldiers inside excavation pits in Xi'anTerracotta Army in Xi'an: rows of clay soldiers inside the excavated pitTerracotta Army: rows of clay soldiers in the excavation pits, Xi'anTerracotta warrior statue behind glass, standing archer figure without bowBronze chariot with umbrella and four horses, Terracotta Army museum, Xi'anVisitors descending marble stairs beneath the World Heritage emblem indoorsTourist beneath the stone arch with ancient stele, Ming Xiaoling, NanjingWoman next to a stone elephant statue in a parkWoman sitting beside a stone camel statue on the Sacred Way, Ming TombsGullinSailors in white uniforms on a yellow ferry moored on the riverTourists on a boat deck on the Li River among limestone karst peaksCormorant fisherman on the Li River with two tourists, tour boat nearbyGood Wine with SNAKETourists standing on a boat with golden dragon roof on the Li River, GuilinIlluminated pagoda at night reflected on the river among trees and stallsBronze archer statue at Liuhe Pagoda, golden Chinese characters among green fernsWomen in dark dresses with two hostesses in red qipao at a lantern-lit Chinese restaurant entranceTable laden with dim sum trays, small pagoda model, red banner with gold charactersTwo golden dragons on a wall reflected in the Qinhuai river, NanjingThe BONSAI gardenRiver with bridges and boats among green city buildings, SuzhouCity square with green flowerbeds and fountain after rain, bus and towerTourist in front of Mao's raised-arm statue against red backdropJade sculpture with carved figures on rocky mountain, displayed in museum caseTourists at the red gateway of Yonghe Temple, incense smoke rising insideTourist beside the bronze dragon statue at the Summer Palace in the rainTourist with umbrella in front of the teahouse at Yuyuan Garden, ShanghaiTwo tourists beside a multi-roofed wooden pagoda in a tree-filled gardenTwo tourists on the steps of the white Lingyin temple with Chinese inscriptionTrain to ShanghaiSmiling woman beside a red and white train carriage at nightSHANGHAINeon signs glowing at night on Nanjing Road, crowd walking belowThe Bund in Shanghai: heavy traffic beneath historic colonial buildings, daylightTwo women with umbrella in the rain on a Shanghai pedestrian streetWoman with black umbrella next to a bronze statue, wet pavementIlluminated Shanghai skyscrapers reflected on the dark Huangpu river waterRoad to the ENDFarewell to CHINA
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