Yes, I did remember to take pictures.
Yep -I did remember to upload my pictures. Even more appalling than the trip last year, we took 500-odd this time out.
I'm putting up very few of them here (more may show up elsewhere) - the majority of them are posed rather than candid shots (since that's what my parents enjoy taking) , and I wasn't happy about most of them. In an effort to avoid buying a memory card, most of the ones I did like seemed to have gotten sacrificed to the Gods of CompactFlash.
But... here's the Drum Tower, in the heart of downtown Xi'an. There's a Bell Tower just across, in the middle of a traffic circle. These were used to mark the start and end of curfew, centuries ago.
We did a lot of tours of lakes and gardens in various cities near Shanghai...this is one of them. I think this is Tai Lake, near Wuxia.
Our tour guide in Wuxia, by the way, had the most amazing manicure. I didn't notice it till the stop after this, when he was pointing out something ... in a teapot factory perhaps.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Macau has the obligatory free-standing tower with a glass floor that a lot of biggish cities seem to have. They also had the most amazing graphic pasted up on a wall which made it seem as if it was the tallest free-standing structure in the world.
But we know that can't be right. Right?
I really liked Macau, by the way. It wasn't the shiny casino lights that did it...it was those tasty egg tarts. Yum.
Lots of creepy crawlies in that part of the world. Spiders, cockroaches, beetles, tiny little frogs... I even saw a gecko hanging out on the wall of one of the hotels we stayed at, in Guangdong Province while we were visiting with my dad's family.
We took this picture in Hong Kong though, just before dinner. We went to the restaurant, and somebody there took us across to the market to pick out what we wanted to eat.
In fact, this dude (or one of its tankmates) was pretty tasty.
(Ignore my protruding tummy. The food for the first part of the trip was bland, repetitive but government-blessed much like the rest of the tour, better but still somewhat scary in a I-don't-want-to-worship-a-squatter way for the second part in rural China, and amazingly good and way too abundant for the last part in Hong Kong and Macau. By the time we got to the airport Monday morning, we all looked like Teletubbies.)
That's all I'm gonna show you. No Great Wall, you complain? No Tiannamen Square or terra-cotta warriors?
Well...they were cool too. I just don't have pictures of them that you couldn't find from Google, in a couple of seconds.
I'm bringing my own damn camera next time.
I'm putting up very few of them here (more may show up elsewhere) - the majority of them are posed rather than candid shots (since that's what my parents enjoy taking) , and I wasn't happy about most of them. In an effort to avoid buying a memory card, most of the ones I did like seemed to have gotten sacrificed to the Gods of CompactFlash.
But... here's the Drum Tower, in the heart of downtown Xi'an. There's a Bell Tower just across, in the middle of a traffic circle. These were used to mark the start and end of curfew, centuries ago.
We did a lot of tours of lakes and gardens in various cities near Shanghai...this is one of them. I think this is Tai Lake, near Wuxia.
Our tour guide in Wuxia, by the way, had the most amazing manicure. I didn't notice it till the stop after this, when he was pointing out something ... in a teapot factory perhaps.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Macau has the obligatory free-standing tower with a glass floor that a lot of biggish cities seem to have. They also had the most amazing graphic pasted up on a wall which made it seem as if it was the tallest free-standing structure in the world.
But we know that can't be right. Right?
I really liked Macau, by the way. It wasn't the shiny casino lights that did it...it was those tasty egg tarts. Yum.
Lots of creepy crawlies in that part of the world. Spiders, cockroaches, beetles, tiny little frogs... I even saw a gecko hanging out on the wall of one of the hotels we stayed at, in Guangdong Province while we were visiting with my dad's family.
We took this picture in Hong Kong though, just before dinner. We went to the restaurant, and somebody there took us across to the market to pick out what we wanted to eat.
In fact, this dude (or one of its tankmates) was pretty tasty.
(Ignore my protruding tummy. The food for the first part of the trip was bland, repetitive but government-blessed much like the rest of the tour, better but still somewhat scary in a I-don't-want-to-worship-a-squatter way for the second part in rural China, and amazingly good and way too abundant for the last part in Hong Kong and Macau. By the time we got to the airport Monday morning, we all looked like Teletubbies.)
That's all I'm gonna show you. No Great Wall, you complain? No Tiannamen Square or terra-cotta warriors?
Well...they were cool too. I just don't have pictures of them that you couldn't find from Google, in a couple of seconds.
I'm bringing my own damn camera next time.
posted by leanne at
9:15 AM
4 Comments:
Lol, should I ask what you're doing to that poor crustacean?
By
Silvenwolf, at 12:29 PM
Just holding it for the camera, really.
I think the guys at the market were worried I was going to drop it if it squirmed too much. But they were nice enough to wrap the pointy part of the head in paper for me.
By
leanne, at 2:18 PM
Hehe it still makes for quite a memorable picture tho. :)
By
Silvenwolf, at 12:52 PM
Yup. Good call in identifying it as just a crustacean though. Though they didn't tell me what it was (or I wasn't paying attention 'cause I was concentrating on not dropping the thing) they said it wasn't a lobster (no big claws to snap at you with).
Perhaps you ran into one of these in Australia though...that's where they said they got these?
Now, we really gotta work on the flowers in your yard. For shame, Sandi! Lilacs! They smell pretty!
(Besdies which, Calgary has an entire festival named for 'em. And it's one of the cool ones, at that.)
By
leanne, at 9:19 PM
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