China Pictures No. 4
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| Temple of Heaven | Around the Temple of Heaven | The American embassy |
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| Street flea market | Sarah getting lost in the crowd (well, not entirely) | A present for my roommate, a would-be Communist |
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| Shanghai: a mixture of old and new | The Shanghai skyline | Red flag in Shanghai |
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| Shanghai subway station | Shanghai subway -- it's one continuous subway car! | Shanghai buildings |
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| Old Shanghai | Chinese tourists too flock to Old Shanghai | The crowd in Old Shanghai |
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| Shanghai garden | Dragons everywhere! | The Jin Ma skyscraper |
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| Observatory tower | View from the observatory -- the Shanghai Bund | Shanghai Bund, from the ground |
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| Developing Shanghai (Pudong) | Old colonial buildings in Shanghai, now flying the red flag | The four stooges in Shanghai |
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| View from the Bund | Sittin' on the Bund | The nifty new train to (the real) Suzhou |
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| Suzhou garden | Did I say Suzhou garden? | Really, there are a lot of gardens in Suzhou |
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| Goin' for a boat ride... | ...in a very narrow canal, squeezing past a boat belching black smoke | Hit by a wayward rock after sticking my head out of a moving train (duh!) |
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| Shopping for fake Prada bags in Beijing | Mimi chose red; Sarah, puke green | Mimi's mom's Mao buttons (no two alike!) |
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| Mimi's mom's Mao pins (all different too) | Mimi's parents in their Beijing apartment | Our Beijing hotel... the elevator never worked |
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| Our hotel lobby; nicer than we expected | Typical eats -- gorge gorge gorge | Group shot at our departure |
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| Oops... left out Mimi's dad |