Flying over Siberia
The view from my hotel window
Looking toward Tiananmen Square
Lots of advertisements
Dr. Phillips on the bus
Beijing traffic
Lots of “Merry Christmas”
Learning how to use chopsticks
Windy, chilly Tiananmen Square
The sellers were aggressive
Looking toward the Forbidden City
Explaining the Forbidden City
The fire extinguishers are to stop protesters... ask me about it
Inside the Forbidden City
The emperor’s version of an office
The face masks were more prominent in Xian
This was a clean bathroom. Clean bathrooms weren’t common
The Olympic mascots
The Great Hall of the People
Nighttime in Tiananmen
America was around the corner from the hotel. McDonalds too
Morning on the Great Wall at Badaling
Chinese graffiti
Looking down at where I started walking
On the wall
It was below zero with fierce 40+ mph wind gusts
At the Ming Tombs
Back in Beijing, on one of the ring roads
An Olympic stadium
At a Buddhist Temple
A tall, tall, tall buddha
The breadth of the city was stunning
The architecture was amazing
Walking across a frozen river
At the Summer Palace
We walked on the ice
Look closely and you’ll see part of the Great Wall
A CCTV (television) building
The cabs were cheap
In a park above the Forbidden City
With a perfect view of the city
Everything was so symmetrical
Looking north
At the Temple of Heaven
Many newspapers. But I never saw a NYT, WP, or WSJ... heh
on a Hutong tour
Pi jiu like whoa
A mass of humanity at the train station. Next stop: Xian
