view
from the hotel
side
of a bus
street
scene
sidewalk
relish shop
Beijing China
view
from the hotelside
of a busstreet
scenesidewalk
relish shop
the Lama Temple with Christy and Aarti
incense
is offered to Buddha
Christy
Aarti
and I
this
Buddha is carved from a single white sandalwood tree
Confucius Temple
me
and Confucius
each
stone tablet in this hall is inscribed with the wisdom of sages
it's
an order really
Forbidden City
ceiling
detail in one of the rooms
these
huge vats lined the courtyards, fires could be lit underneath
the
fantastic moat and of all things people fishing in it
Tiananmen Square
Mao,
still sadly omnipresent
the
red army marches
the
great hall of the people
this
is the building on the Chinese communist emblem
Fluor Dinner at Peking Duck restaurant (I ate noodles)
little
pastry ducks filled with sweet bean paste
Summer Palace
where the emporers went when it got hot, it was more impressive with its moat and rambling Buddhist structures in the back built into rock than the Forbidden City really. The palace is huge and surrounded by a giant moat, it has long hallways with painted pillars and small paintings over each arch that literally go on out of your range of vision. Pastoral walkways through pine trees and endless halls and statues.
there
were hundreds and hundreds of these paintings
it's
Thai!
the
lake around the summer palace
The
dowager empress Cixi was given a budget to use for the navy but used it to
refurbish the palace instead and the only nod to the navy was to build this
useless but splendid marble boat
looking
down on the front part of the summer palace
the Summer Palace had its own theatre and we were treated to a short show featuring lovely dancers, musicians and clowns
back
of me watching the show
Pandas! at the Beijing Zoo
Do
not even tell me it gets cuter than this!
little
ones on a trip to the zoo
We had a great veg meal at a Buddhist restaurant called Lotus in Moonlight
Changi Airport in Singapore, one of the best airports ever, they know how to take care of you
First
we have a meal at their veg Indian restaurant upstairs
the
sushi bar is adorable, note the conveyor belt carrying the dishes round and
round in front of the seats
then
we headed for the reflexology massage center for a jasmine tea and soothing
forty minute foot massage by their waterfall