 1 Our first day in Beijing, and the sun is shining on the great white Pagoda. |
 2 As she sun sets it gives a great reflection in the lake surrounding the great white pagoda |
 3 At night we ate in this restaurant with the locals. After more then we could eat and drink we had to pay € 3,-- that's not so expensive :-) |
 4 Tiananmen Square, 's worlds largest public square is the center of Beijing. Connecting the old forbidden city with the modern city. |
 5 Inside the forbidden city near the Supreme Hamony Gate. |
 6 These giant brass pots can be found all over the forbidden city. In a time without lightning-conductors fires were common in the forbidden city. |
 7 Hall of Preserving Harmony. |
 8 Hall of Supreme Harmony. |
 9 This is the clothing for the empire. It's woven silk with gold. The empire was the only one allowed to wear the dragon symbol. |
 10 Inside the forbidden city. |
 11 Hall of Supreme Harmony. |
 12 A banner from the empire, also showing the emperial dragon. |
 13 Detail of one of the palaces, there are no nails, screws etc. used in this buildings! |
 14 Looking at the hall of Preserving Harmony. We are standing near the palace of Heavenly Purity. |
 15 The front gates of the forbidden city. |
 16 One of the Ming Tombs, just like in Egypt there is a valley of kings in China, near Beijing. All the famous Ming empires are burried here. This is Ding Ling, the tomb of emperor Wanli. |
 17 The road to Zhoa Ling, the tomb of emperor Longqing is 7 km long with 12 sets of stone animals and statues of officials. This statues are almost 500 years old, but look like the have been put here yesterday. |
 18 The main attraction of China, the Chinese Wall. New sattelite studies show that the walls are more the 8000 Km long! |
 19 The wall has been renovated in his original condition. Amazing piece of work. |
 20 There are a lot of stairs and it was more then 40 degrees Celsius, but more then worthwile. |
 21 The beautifull Lama temple in Beijing. |
 22 One of the golden statues in the Lama temple. |
 23 This is not common found in Chinese temples, more in Tibetan temples. You can turn it around for praying. |
 24 Detail of the palace in the Summer Park. The lake nearby has been created by more the 100.000 labourers. |
 25 A giant brass pot, this one is also used to extinguish fires. |
 26 Buddhist Tenants Hall, coverd with small statues of Lord Buddha. |
 27 In the old city of Jiaxing we saw this old bicycle. |
 28 The old city of Jiaxing has been perfectly restored. |
 29 Buildings near the water in the old city of Jiaxing. |
 30 A boat in the river of the old city of Jiaxing. |
 31 Chairman Mao is still importand for a lot of Chinese people. |
 32 The old town of Jiaxing at night. |
 33 After visiting Jiaxing we went to Shanghai and took the Maglev to go downtown. |
 34 The Maglev doesn't go to downtown, so we took the subway. |
 35 Downtown Shanghai, the famous television tower. |