China September 2007 trip
My parents were in China for the whole month, and my father was in China for the first time since getting married (and that was just in HK). The cover pic (more below) was taken at the Forbidden City.
Beijing Computer City
Kunming Lake
Forbidden City
Great Wall, sorta
Old street in Shanghai
Nanjing Road - check out the UniQlo!
View of Shanghai from Pudong's Pearl of Orient tower
A water village near Suzhou
Suzhou
Cityscape of Hangzhou
Hangzhou by West Lake
Pagoda above West Lake
Xi'an traffic
Xi'an through the smog
Jade and rock
Telephone booth in Wuhan
The First Bridge at Wuhan
On the Yangtze at 6AM
Fishing on the Yangtze
Lots of cars
Three Gorges Dam
Bigger than it looks
Brown and brown: skies and water, upstream from Three Gorges Dam
Public market in China
Riverside by Chongqing
Tianxing Lu, Chongqing
Obligatory panda picture
Dazu rock carvings
Flight from Chongqing
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Rice fields
Terrasse culture
Water and mountain landscape near Guilin
Dragonfly
Grotto near Guilin
Coffee
Part of Guilin's commercial stretch
Commercial street in Guangzhou
City sprawl, Guangzhou
Train station, Guangzhou
Cross-harbour tunnel
Crossing the harbour, Hong Kong
The new central pier
Outdoor market in Hong Kong
Wan Chai, Hong Kong
My grandfather's village, near Shunde
Our family's temple
I actually visited my ancestral village in 2005, but did not have access to the second floor, as my father did
Furniture city, in the city centre of Shunde
A view of Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, from my aunt's superbly located flat in Tai Hang
Hong Kong, from Victoria Peak. Whereas I had to endure a month and a half of complete grayness over HK, my parents had the extreme luck of having a clear blue day!
Western view from Victoria Peak, Hong Kong
K line / China Shipping Line / Lantau Island Bridge
Discovery Bay, Hong Kong
Fishing village
Hong Kong International Airport
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