Beijing

Up at 6am for an early morning stroll around Tiananmen. The square was already busy with kids flying kites and people having their photos taken in from of the portrait for Chairman Mao.

Great wall is beautiful even if totally reconstructed. The wild wall further along is even more impressive.

Hong Kong to Xi'an

 

Traveling through China is like a Zang Yimou movie set. Rice paddies, water buffalo, workers in the fields and little brown mud brick villages. Even in the countryside the air is polluted from the coal power stations.

 

Xi'an is very pretty. Old city walls, wide boulevards and tree lined streets.

 

Terracotta warriors are amazing especially the ones partially unearthed. Just and arm or face appearing through the earth.

Hong Kong

 

Two days to re-explore Hong Kong. On the second day I took the ferry from Kowloon to Hong Kong Island and then the stairs to the Mid Levels I forgot the escalator to the Mid Levels go down not up in the morning! Finally made it. The view from The Peak still spectacular.