Photo spamarola - China part 1
April 30th, 2007 by jadeite
China photos! :D Full-size versions available on my Flickr.
At the Summer Palace with Joel, making faces in front of a 麒麟 statue
Cherry blossom
Part of the Summer Palace
Little Suzhou in the Summer Palace
Pretty plants that dispensed flying bits of cotton all over Beijing which looked like snow
Panorama of the view from somewhere in the Summer Palace
Oh yuck. Baoying check it out :D Sea cucumber served in its whole state.
Old men writing calligraphy on the ground with water at the Temple of Heaven.
Panorama of the Temple of Heaven. Pretty.
Why doesn’t Singapore have flowers like these? The gardens at the Temple of Heaven were beautiful.
Hannah and I with Huanhuan the Olympic 福娃 in a 胡同. It’s one of the Olympic mascots - there are five - and I think they are the BEST Olympic mascots ever. The mascots for previous years are just so ugly. The Chinese do cute best :D Except for Beibei. She looks like a tranny.
Beibei, Jingjing, Huanhuan, Yingying, and Nini. 北京欢迎你。 Cheesy but effective and so darn cute. My favorite is Jingjing! Guess who’s dangling on my phone now? :P Actually they’re all just so freaking cute. Except for tranny bear.
Random happy photo of us before embarking on our trek up to司马台。 Happy because we did not know what was in store for us.
Sitting on the Great Wall of China - Me, Bing, Hannah and Heather
There is too much Great Wall.
Joel, Bing and me, halfway through our 10km trek. Tired. Look how much more wall stretches out behind us! :(
Me: “Ooh! A FLYING FOX! A FLYING FOX!” Bing: “Is there any other way down?” Heather: “Well, it’s a 35 yuan, 2 minute flying fox, or walk some more for God only knows how long.” Me: “Here’s my money. Gimme a ticket. No walky.”
Tiananmen, and lookie! Chairman Mao!
Exhausted girls in the Forbidden City
No Scratch!
In the Forbidden City
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil!
We actually saw this old lady with bound feet in the Forbidden City. She walked surprisingly fast - slower than my usual stride but fast enough for someone with bound feet - and looked quite happy. I saw more ladies with bound feet (two) in eight days in Beijing than cute guys (only one, and he had a girlfriend). All the cute men in China must have moved to Taiwan and Hongkong.
Tiananmen Square.
More tomorrow. I’m tired and the aircon service people are coming at nine tomorrow morning (!!) and I have to not be half-naked and asleep in bed when they come in. Sigh.
Blah! I have Beibei (the tranny bear) dangling on my shoe bag… used to have Huanhuan, but I didn’t really like the mini toy that much…
lol!! no scratch! more pictures of FOOD pls!!
Weibin: :O Beibei is a tranny! Hoho. Yea my new favorites are Yingying and Nini :D
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