Beijing-one of several statues around
Tianamen Square's Chairman Mao Memorial Hall
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Beijing-young police officers in front
of Tiananmen Square's Chairman Mao Memorial Hall
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Beijing-Tiananmen Square's Chairman
Mao Memorial Hall. Mao died in 1976.
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Beijing-Tiananmen Square's Great Hall
of the People, home of the National People's Congress
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Beijing-Tiananmen Square's entrance to
the Forbidden City is through the Gate of Heavenly Peace.
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Beijing-Chairman Mao's picture over
Tiananmen Square's entrance to the Forbidden City
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Beijing-Tiananmen Square is a popular
place to fly kites
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The Elderhostel group is ready to walk
on the Great Wall at Badaling, 45 miles from Beijing. The yellow caps will be...
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The Great Wall is not continuous but is
a collection of short walls often following the crest of hills on the...
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The first set of walls of earth and
stones in wood frames were designed to keep Mongol nomads out of China. Some...
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The Great Wall has few steps, and hand-
rails help people ascend and descend on the somewhat slippery stone walkway.
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Contary to popular belief, the Great
Wall CANNOT be seen from the moon according to NASA astronaut Alan Bean
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The Great Wall was built wide enough
for marching troops or wagons with guard stations and watch towers at regular...
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The Great Wall was made a World
Heritage Site in 1987.
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Beijing-the artist is making a cloissone
bowl at a combination factory/showroom
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Although we saw only a few artists at
work here, there were several hundred people employed elsewhere in the complex
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Cloisonne is a multi-step enamel
process for the making of jewelry, vases, and other decorative items which...
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The lady in the foreground was con-
sidered to be the "master artist" at this facility. She would...
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One U.S. dollar is worth about 7.5 Yuan
making the cost of these large vases about $400 and $500 from left to...
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Cloisonne vases are fairly easy to
transport without breakage and make great souvenirs.
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At the Qing Emperors' Summer Palace
a foo dog greets visitors. In 1998, UNESCO included the Summer Palace on its...
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The red and blue design of the building
is actually canvas covering restoration work in progress as Beijing...
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The Long Gallery is 2100 feet long and
has more than 8,000 archway paintings.
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The Summer Palace has a history of
more than 800 years with the first palace built here in 1153.
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The Summer Palace is now used by
Beijing's large population as a weekend retreat from the city's hot...
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This 12-square-mile complex has many
pavilions, temples, palaces, and halls in a hilly landscape.
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UNESCO called the Summer Palace an
"outstanding expression of the creative art of Chinese landscape garden...
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Kunming Lake covers 4/5ths of the park.
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Beijing's population is almost 15
million.
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Qianmen is the modern name for the
city gate south of the Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square.
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Although this picture was taken in April
lighted Christmas decorations are still evident on the building.
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Beijing from my hotel window with some
of the thousands of remaining hutongs, residences on small streets or lanes...
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The Forbidden City is the unofficial
name for the Imperial Palace which for five centuries through 24 emperors the...
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Rooflines of several buildings intersect
in the Forbidden City
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More than 800 buildings containing
9,000 rooms make up the Forbidden City.
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The complex was the symbolic and
literal heart of the capital city and of the whole empire. Inside the...
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A restoration program has been ongoing
for several decades after the fall of the Manchu dynasty in 1911 and...
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Repairs to the buildings in the For-
bidden City are being made before the 2008 Olympics.
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Forbidden City palace
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Only a building built for royalty would
have this number of figures on its roof.
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Roofs!
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Named by UNESCO as a World
Heritage Site in 1987, the complex is now one of the most popular tourist...
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Very few of the buildings were open,
and even this could be seen only through an open doorway.
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Construction began in 1407 with
completion in 1420. It has been said that a million workers were involved.
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Foo dogs whichguard this building
entrance are usually present in pairs, with the male on the right and...
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The pink caps make it easy for
this group to find stragglers as they walk through the complex for a...
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A museum in the Forbidden City
displayed jadeite bottles
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Another carved jadite piece
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Nine Dragon Wall was constructed in
the 1770's. With seawater as a background, the dragons are encircled by...
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The dragon was the symbol of the
emporer in ancient China.
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One of many school groups seen while
at Sun Yatsen Park where we had a delightful lunch
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In 1914, the site was known as Central
Park; in 1928 its name was changed to honor the man considered to be...
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Sun Yatsen Park covers 60 acres and over
1,000 years ago was the site of an important temple.
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The park, near the Forbidden City, had
an unusual mixture of poinsettias and summer flowers.
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Asia
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