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Wuhan Temple Chengdu
This was one of the free admission temples in Chengdu. Why pay when...
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Wuhan Temple, Chengdu, Sechuan, China
Our first day in Chengdu, Valentine's Day, 2009. How romantic. Sun-me at...
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Chengdu, Feb. 2009
Sun-me straddling turtle, Wuhan Temple, Chengdu.
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Chengdu, food court Jinli Street Feb. 2009
Sichuan food on display at food court on Jinli street in downtown Chengdu.
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Chengdu, Jinli Street Starbucks Feb. 2009
What can I say other than holy people need java too!
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Park in downtown Chengdu, Feb. 2009
Notice the bird cages hanging from the trees.
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Chengdu, Sugarcane seller Feb. 2009
You need some pretty good molars to process this stuff. Or, you need a...
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Subadult Panda, Panda Breeding Center
Subadult Panda at Giant Panda Breeding Center, Chengdu, Sichuan...
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Giant Panda Breeding Center
These guys are not only really cute, but they eat about 40 kilos of bamboo a...
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Chengdu Panda Breeding Center
I don't know if Sub and adult have an empty space or hyphen between them....
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Subadult Giant Panda
This guy is nibbling on bamboo. They sleep, wake up, and chew bamboo....
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Getting Into It
These animals were pretty cute. They look like, well, teddy bears.
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Red Panda, Panda Breeding Center
Actually, this is not a panda bear at all, but a kind of raccoon dog....
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Sun me and Hwa dong
Hwa-dong is a Chinese student attending college in Yeosu, South Korea. We met...
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Chengdu, Giant Panda Breeding Center
This is a full grown Panda. They keep them seperate from the little guys. I...
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Mice and Rabbit 4 Sale, Downtown Chengdu
The day the horrible trade in caged animals stops I will be a happy man....
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Food Court in Chengdu
Here we are, Hwa-dong Sun-me and Yours Truly (taking the picture)...
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Packed Like Sardines
This picture was taken in downtown Chengdu, February 2009. Well at least they...
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View From Bus
This is what a bus, or taxi, or private automobile driver has to deal with in...
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View From Hotel Window, Chengdu
Here is the view from the Garden City Hotel in downtown Chengdu. We...
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Chengdu Bicycle Army
Here is the wave of scooters, bicycles and cars about to engulf the...
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Leshan, Sichuan Province
We went to Leshan, to see the world's tallest Bhudda. We passed...
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Clear Day Central China
Actually, I don't know. But I do know this. Our guide, who grew up...
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Leshan Giant Buddha
If all the hype is correct, this Bhudda, carved out of sandstone and...
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Chinese Water Craft
Three Rivers meet at Leshan. One river is the Ming River. I forget the...
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Stairway Carved From Sandstone
Staircase that gains access to the upper ramparts of the Giant Bhudda.
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Steps Carved In Stone-Giant Buddha
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Bamboo, Buddhist Temple
A very Chinese scene
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Chinese Bridge
Bridge near fishing village cum fish restaurant area, Sichuan, Central China.
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Airport Fruit Seller
The fruit at this fruit stand was really expensive, but they had everything:...
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Mountains From Airplane
Here we are on the plane, headed to Lhasa. I don't know the name of this...
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Return To Sender
So solly, but due to high rinds, we cannot rand in Rasa. The plane was...
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Food at Agricultural Hotel
When our flight to Lhasa was turned back due to bad weather, Air China...
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Steps Leading To Potala Palace
At 3,650 meters, or about 12,000 feet above sea level, there's not much...
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Potala Administrative Region
Here we are in front of the entrance to the White Section, or administrative...
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Potala View
Looking north beyond Lhasa to the arid, Tibetan mts. There's no sewage...
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Descending Potala
Tibetans descending the Potala Palace, after prostrating, praying,...
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Potala Blue Sky
We only had weather like this, well, one day in Tibet. The rest of the...
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Jokang Temple View
We finally made it to Lhasa, and our guide and driver from Access...
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Sera Monastery
We went to the Sera Monastery but it was closed. The cobblestones we could...
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Tashilumpo Monastery
We didn't go inside. After Jokhang Temple and Potala Palace, we...
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Communist Monument To Godlessness
This obelisk, eerily similar to that one found in Stanley Kubrick's 2001,...
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Potala From Afar
Potala Palace, Lhasa, Tibet
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Looking Down At Where We Were
When we drove from Lhasa to Shigatse, we took this road. We went over three...
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Yomdrok Lake
This was our first pass when we drove from Lhasa to Shigatse. The wind...
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Karola Glacier
That's Sun-me in front of the Karola Glacier. The air was really...
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Karola Glacier Sod House
Another staged photo. I think I paid 5 yuan for this shot, highway robbery....
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Yak Silhouette
Took this picture on the way from Lhasa to Shigatse. We are now about...
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Prayer Flags
Batchoo and Pemba, or driver and guide, attacing prayer flags to an...
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On Way To Shigatse
The restaurant between Lhasa and Shigatse, where we stopped for lunch....
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Chinese Restaurant On Way To Shigatse
Inside the restaurant with all the bikes parked in front. The woman is...
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Prayer Wheels Shigatse
Sun-me running the prayer wheels outside Tashilumpo Monastery.
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Tibetans Crossing Street
Tibetans in Lhasa. Notice the woman's rosy red cheeks.
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View From Rickshaw
The only argument we got into in two weeks in China and Tibet was with this...
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Lhasa Fruit Seller
Sun me buying fruit from a seller in downtown Lhasa. She insisted on speaking...
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Tibetan Man
I found this guy in some dusty, windblown town where we stopped for...
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Sun me, Batchoo and Pemba
Our Guide Pemba, and our Driver Batchoo. My wife in the middle. Lhasa train...
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Leaving Lhasa
Sun-me staring out the window of the sleeper car on the highest train in the...
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Yaks and Mountains on Tibetan Plateau
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Yaks and Mountains, Again
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Train Sleeping
My wife doing what she does best. Lhasa to Beijing Express.
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Top O The World
Somewhere on the world's highest flat place, the Qinghai Plateau...
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Greenhouse Gases
China builds one coal burning electricity generating power plant every two...
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Nuclear Power
I'm not an expert, so I don't know. Is this nuclear power? Somewhere...
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Steel Mill
This is the big steel mill in Lanzhou, Gansu Province, Central China.
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Gansu Province
Houses somewhere in eastern Qinghai or Gansu Province, China.
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Yellow River
I asked the people in the sleeper cabin next to ours "Is this the Yellow...
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Dirt Houses Rural China
The train passed through an area in Central China around Gansu Province where...
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Yellow Landscape
More yellow landscape, Central China around Gansu and Xanxi Provinces.
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Eating Sunflower Seeds
Here I am looking out the window as we hurtle through the Loess...
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Greenhouses
Greenhouses in dusty, arid, lacking for water Central China.
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Arriving Beijing
But the next morning, surprise, surprise. Clear skies (relatively)...
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Beijing Railway Station
Packed. A good reason for China's one child policy. China is...
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Railway Station
The irony of this trip was that over 14 days some of the clearest...
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Ming Tombs
Ming Tombs outside Beijing. This is the excess that led to the Cultural...
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Beijing Food Court
Here is a spread. You choose the vegetables and meat, and then cook it...
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Beijing Mosque?
I'm not sure. Would a Mosque have all that advertising on the front?...
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Tianamen Square
Here's Tianamen Square, enough concrete to land an airplane, and...
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Forbidden Palace
Lots of courtyards leading to yet more courtyards.
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Peking Duck Restaurant
The restaurant where we ate Peking duck twice while in Beijing. When you eat...
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Jingshen Hill Panorama
Here's looking from the top of Jingshen Hill, where one of the...
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