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