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This was our headquarters while in Peiking for first two days. |
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Diane standing at the gate to enter the Great Wall of China. |
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This is us standing on the great wall. |
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These 3 pictures are the Emperers summer palace and the man made lake. |
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We Have flown to Xian where we visit the Tarra Cotta soldiers. There are over 6,000 of them, all different. |
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This is our hotel in Xian. Its 5 stars. |
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This is the Budda temple in Xian. |
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The city wall of Shaanxi. |
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The next 35 pictures were taken along the Yangtze river as we did a 3 day cruise to the dam. |
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Fendu...the City of Ghosts. Sacred to the Chinese people because most of their temples were destroyed during the Cultural Revolution. |
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Water guages....the Three Gorges Dam will back the water up to the yellow marker and entire cities will be underwater! |
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Ancient Chinese grafitti....who knows what is says! |
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The three gorges ...up close. |
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We saw a family of monkeys in the bushes on the steep ravines. |
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As the gorge gets narrower, we move to smaller sanpans. |
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The dining room on the river cruise. |
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The next 8 pictures are the Three Gorges Dam. |
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These are the locks at Three Gorges Dam. They hold way bigger ships than Panama and fill extremely quickly. |
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Up close on the lockes filling. |
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This is where all the surplus concrete in the world has gone! |
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We visit a farming family just outside Wuhan. |
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These 4 pictures were taken in Tienanmen Square. |
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The next 19 pictures were taken inside The Forbidden City. |
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We had lunch at the World famous Pieking Duck Restaurant. |
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