 Entering the Forbidden City |
 One of many small courtyards in the Forbidden City (9999 rooms!) |
 The 700-meter long "Long Corridor" at the Summer Palace |
 Cloissonne paints |
 The Great Wall: flags. (It's very windy here!) |
 The Great Wall |
 Portions of the Great Wall are quite steep! |
 The Temple of Heaven |
 Pudong region of Shanghai. 10 years ago this was all farmland. (We were supposed to stay in the 2nd-tallest building in this photo, but the APEC meeting nixed that - the area was effectively closed.) |
 Shanghai: Nanjing Road (shopping!) |
 The new Shanghai Museum. (Its displays rival any one of the Smithsonian's single buildings.) |
 Suzhou: famous for its gardens... |
 Suzhou: ... and its canals ("Venice of the East") |
 Suzhou: ... and its silk. (The water is steaming hot.) |
 Suzhou's North Temple Pagoda |
 Wuhan's Bonsai Garden |
 Our first evening on the Yangtze River |
 Yangtze River: West Xiling Gorge (first of the 3 Gorges) |
 Yangzte panorama |
 Yangtze: the buildings along the river will be under 100 meters of water in 2003 when the San Dou Ping Dam is completed. The buildings way up on the mountainside will be waterfront property! |
 The "Lesser" 3 Gorges of the Daning River (more impressive than the "real" 3 Gorges) |
 Daning River |
 Sunset at the Wu Gorge (second of the 3 Gorges) |
 Xi'an: the famous terracotta warriors (there are about 7000 of these) |
 Xi'an: a complete (and very broad-topped) wall surrounds the inner part of this progressive city |
 Guilin's Li River |
 Li River |
 Cormorant fisherman on the Li River |
 Hong Kong's famous sampan community |
 Hong Kong: on the ferry from the Kowloon Peninsula to Hong Kong Island |
 Hong Kong: view from Victoria Peak at dusk |
 Hong Kong at night |