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excellent park in Xian, I don't think it was very old but it was
certainly beautiful |
Same
park |
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| Funky
marble dragon head! |
This
is one of the many emporer's burial sites found around Xian. The
markers on the top of the hill are a common sight |
View
from the top of the emporer's tomb. I actually forget which
emporer it was but he had good taste in tombs |
Zhang
and I out the front of the Terracotta Warriors diggings |
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| Zhang's
favourite donkey! |
Some
dudes cleaning the entrace to Jiaotong University |
View
from the top of the monument which looks like ... |
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this from the bottom |
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| The
jewel of the lotus, with some water bugs |
The
park near Jiaotong Uni |
Too
many photos of this park? |
Love
these archways ... |
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| Wet
and rainy but still rather pretty |
This
was the fountain near Jiaotong Uni in Xian. The park also
featured some really strange paddleboats |
This
statue is of a famous scholar and author whose name I may never
be able to pronounce |
The
architecture in Shanghai is great, I had to snap this one on the
way to the airport |
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| Street
scene in Shanghai. Bikes are really, really popular |
Apparently,
this statue is used to tether your horse. Sadly we had chosen to
take the bus. |
Another
funky archway |
A
badly mistreated tortoise |
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| Wild
Goose pagoda ... hundreds and hundreds of years old, and built
right in the centre of Xian city |
One
of the four views from the Pagoda, each side of the building
looks out on a perfectly stright road like this |
I
can't remember what it was all about but we went into this room
that was full of tall, inscribed stones and I ... um ... took a
photo |
One
of the streets of Xian, just under the city wall. Usually there
are lots of people selling things but this was a quiet moment |
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