CHINA!
March 28 -April 18, 2013
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| Longji Rice Terraces |
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| Duck in orange sauce-rice cooked in Bamboo |
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| Jiou women with long hair wound up |
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| Farmer's wife |
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| Family house for 5 generations |
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| part of their ancestor shrine |
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| snake wine - yikes! |
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| Karsts and bamboo rafts on the swollen Li river |
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| our hotel on the Li River |
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| crops |
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| guardian |
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| on the road to Moon Hill |
Let me set it straight for the record, my daughter took most of the best of these shots!
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| pedestrians |
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| bridge en route to Moon Hill |
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| entrepreneurs |
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| Xingping |
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| streets of Xingping |
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| on the road to Guilin |
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| selling communist memorabilia |
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| Xingping |
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| Shangri-La village |
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| Muslim market |
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| beautiful bride |
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| bird pets |
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| terracotta warriors |
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| and their horses |
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| and their hairdos |
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| can't believe I am actually here |
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| work goes on always |
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| metal window decorations |
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| how did he get there? |
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| yum! dumplings |
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| love this sign |
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| love this little guy |
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| Lotus leading our rickshaw through the Hutong district |
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| playing mah jong in the park |
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| Kung Fu Master in the Hutong |
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| we're here! |
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| cold and steep- spectacular |
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| that's the wall in the background- we are on the unreconstructed part |
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| the Toboggan! |
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| steep |
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| and more steep |
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| Peking Opera |
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| this artisan made David's carved wooden rhino |
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| I just loved these little vehicles |
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| dragon boat at the summer palace |
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| wearing her Mongolian Princess hat Souvenir |
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| Joy managed a surreptitious shot of this wonderful man |
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| looking and commenting on Joy |
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| I loved him. At the Summer Palace |
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| Guess who made it to the Forbidden City? |
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| caldron handle-Forbidden City |
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| Hanging Monastery |
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| roof detail |
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| dizzy-ing |
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| YunGang Caves |
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| Joy for scale- and these weren't even the biggest |
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| Datong- from the hotel window |
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| silk worms with mulberry leaves |
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| gathering silk from the cocoons |
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| gazing out at Shanghai |
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| The Bund. Bull with frisky visitors |
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| sunrise from my hotel room |
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| Shanghai old and new |
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| sunset |
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| Tongli |
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| trotters in Tongli |
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| at the yacht dock |
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| the Yachts |
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| our Captain |
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| cormorants |
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| French Concession- Shanghai |
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| bikes at West lake |
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| food at West Lake |
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| adored child |
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| Giant Incense Burner at LinYang Temple |
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| Lin Yang Temple |
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| tea plantation |
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| tea plantation |
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| Harbor Light Show |
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| clay play! |
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| Andrea Walker me, Shirley Chan |
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| Jun with her family |
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| Great kids at the Po Leung Kuk Choi Kai Yau School |
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| The gracious and welcoming Principal |
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| last group of the day! |
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| the art room and art teacher |
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| the Library |
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| the view |
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| the kids with their journals |
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| the art! |
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| Thank YOU Choi Kai Yau school!! |
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| SCBWI members at the fabulous China Club |
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| German Swiss primary |
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| in the library |
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| great kids! |
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| on the way to the Star Ferry |
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| Storm clouds moving in |
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| Kathleen Ahrens, Mio Debnam, Susan Eaddy, Bini Szacsvay, Chris Cheng |
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| watching the rain on our last night |
