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[Beijing]    [Forbidden City]    [Great Wall]   [Ming Tombs]   [Sacred Way]   [Summer Palace]   [Temple of Heaven]   [Tiananmen Square]   [Zoo]

Beijing general
The foyer of the Guangzhou Hotel welcomed us to China	The Time Building	A floodlit building	The Xiu Shui Market
The traffic in China has a high proportion of cyclists.	Even the Rickshaw drivers need to rest.		A cycle park!
The Friendship Hotel	A snowy tree		The joys of going out of season
Interest visits were to a Jade Factory and a Cloisonné Factory
	A worker carving on a large piece of Jade	A superb galleon carved out of a single piece of jade.	A jade flower arrangement.
A worker putting copper pieces onto a copper vase.	Applying the enamel into the spaces	A finished vase with ones ready for enamel application	Pictures on a wooden base are also produced by the same techniques.
The opera was visited.
	An opera singer making up.	The performance	The orchestra
Forbidden City
A view back towards the entrance gate from Tian'anmen Square	An Incense Burner.	This incline is mad of one complete slab of marble, said to be the largest single slab.	The interior of the Hall of Great Harmony.
A turtle, which is of great cultural significance to the Chinese.	The square area of the Forbidden City.	The concubines sleeping area.	Rock garden formation.
A Dragon	A Peacock		Another Dragon
The snow covered frozen moat in 2006	Inside the Forbidden City	Restoration work in 2006, in preparation for the 2008 Olympics.	A restored gate in 2006
A path cleared of snow across a courtyard.	Incense burner and animals highlighted with snow 2006.
Great Wall at Badaling.
	The wall in summer
In 2006 I went in the opposite direction			View down the valley from the Great Wall.
Ming Tombs
Inside the entrance.	The central tomb.	A garden area and worker.	The garden screen,
A Sacred Silk Burner.	Gardens and Tower.		Figure in Tomb.
The entrance gate in 2006	The Central Tomb.		View from top of the Tomb.
Sacred Way
The Sacred Way is a walk up to a Temple.	It is lined with statues, the first being an Emperor	A Warrior.	A table and elephant seats off the Way.
A horse	A camel	The Temple at the end.	The Turtle at the centre of the Temple.
The 2006 view.	A snow covered general view.		A camel crying in the cold!
Summer Palace
The Summer Palace Temples.	A landing stage.	Boats on the lake	The island in the lake.
A trip boat loading.	A carved marble boat.		The lake, pagoda and boat.
A Lotus flower.	Garden and bridge		The pagoda though the trees.
The Summer Palace stage.	And the ceiling of the stage.		The Island building.
Temple of Heaven
The Temple of Heaven.	Interior of the Temple.	A barn on one side of the area.	Ceiling detail of the barn.
Detail on the gable end of the barn.	The Cloister.	A fiddler busking in the Cloister	A group playing a gambling game.
Tian'anmen Square
Looking across a flower bed towards the Museum.	A view across the largest square in the world looking towards the gate to the Forbidden City.	The monument in the middle of the square.	The monument floodlit.
A night view across the square from the Forbidden City gate	A night version of the photograph above.	The gate to the Forbidden City.	Tian'anmen Square in snow in 2006
The Museum in 2006	The Olympic Countdown clock.	Carvings flanking Mao's mausoleum.
The Zoo
A Lesser Panda, resting up a tree.	A Giant Panda sunbathing.	Another Giant Panda enjoying Bamboo shoots.	A Giant Panda on the prowl.
A Giant Panda asleep in the snow in 2006		They still enjoy bamboo shoots in the cold!

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