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On the plane to Beijing
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The kids conked out on the Beijing bus
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Forbidden City - The woman in pink on the right is our local guide,
Sherry
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Here we are in the Summer Palace
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The Long Gallery - every painting on the headers is different
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The Marble Boat, also named Qingyanfang Boat, is located in the
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Tiananmen Square
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The actual temple
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A better picture of Sherry
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Curtis singing his 'watermelon' song
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The Great Wall (and the lesser mobile phone tower)
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The garden was built by a court official with the same family name as our family. Samir is pointing to the character.
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The well-equipped Chinese businesswoman - water and a mobile phone.
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Shanghai's Pudong new area
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I am trying to hold down the building containing one of Shanghai's
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Lucky animal sculpture, called Pi-shu. |
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Really cool carpets in Shanghai
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Waiting for breakfast in Suzhou - the restaurant opens at 7:30 and
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I just thought this was a great sign
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This is an entrance to the tomb underneath the pagoda.
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The leaning pagoda (hard to tell from this angle)
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It's leaning because it was unknowingly built half on the tomb and half on
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This is Maria, our local guide in Suzhou. |
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Turning silkworm cocoons into silk thread. |
Turning silkworm cocoons into sheets of silk
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First a hole is made in the soft cocoon then the worm is removed.
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The hole is expanded and the cocoon is pulled over a form. |
After it dries it is stretched into a sheet to be placed
inside a silk comforter.
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The family helps out. All of us bought a comforter - for a total of $2000! (US customs had a hard time believing us)
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Censored! |
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A model in the silk factory
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Curtis singing his watermelon song yet again, in a pearl showroom.
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In Wuxi. Bill is on the left, Christina is on the right. Bill was our national
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This is Christina, our local guide in
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Dragon boat races across West Lake in Hangzhou
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Carmen
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Yet another garden.
Nora (in yellow) is interested in being a tour guide... |
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Jep and Kuen
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The Pan family singers.
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Watching tea leaves being dried.
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Yes that IS a hot pan and he is not wearing any protection from the heat
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It just takes lots of practice
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Another place designed to separate tourists from their money
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No, we did NOT buy this much tea!
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I keep saying Shanghai girls (Nora is actually from Hangzhou) are
slender. This is proof. Carmen is on the right
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1000 Buddahs carved in stone
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Nepenthes are a kind of carniverous plant that grow pitchers to trap
insects.
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I grow a bunch at home, but there are plastic in a flower arrangement.
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Standing in front of a statue of Marco Polo who turned chow mein
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An HP ad in China.
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Our arrival in Canton where my wife's family originally came from. Here is our luggage in the minibus.
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And here is the Pan family.
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Until we checked in we didn't klnow that our hotel didn't supply towels. Here we are buying some.
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This is a bee hive. As the bees hatch they are collected and dropped
into a jar of wine. After that... you don't want to know...
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Hear, see, speak...
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The Chinese world is still scared to death of SARS. I don't wonder why.
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The wife of a Pan.
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The littlest Pans
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Here we are at some caves my wife visited when she was a child.
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Snails. Yum.
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Ever wonder where those cheap clothes come from? Here is a sewing
shop in Canton. |
When I was growing up this is exactly
how my father's customers businesses in San Francisco looked.
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A water drain on the floor of a shopping mall in Canton.
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The 'air conditioning' is the fan in the upper left corner. I was hot and had a headache.
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Check the bottom menu entry. Yumm!
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The goats 5 + 2.
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Lychee at around 3 cents a pound! (on the bus from Canton to Hong Kong)
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We arrived in HK during a class 8 (out
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Everything was shut down except a very
few restaurants.
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On the Star Ferry from Wan Chai to Tsim Sha Tsui.
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Hong Kong island from Tsim Sha Tsui.
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A very cool bathroom in Hong Kong (yes, that IS a fish tank above the urinals).
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...and in the ceiling above the sinks.
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The Palace Museum in Taipei, Taiwan.
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The Taipei rapid transit system.
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The Chaing Kai Shek Memorial subway station.
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CKS himself
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The guards stand motionless for their one-hour shift.
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Changing of the guard.
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A motor scooter parking lot (basically, any sidewalk).
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Ready to leave for the airport back home!
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Unpacking all the goodies.
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