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Welcome to Linda's and Garr's China pictures. |
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| View from the bus of terraced hill side. |
| Statue of Mr. Li, who ruled China for 44 days at end of the Ming Dynasty. When a general at the Great Wall learned that an official very close to Mr Li was too interested in the general's wife, the general invited the Manchurians through the gate and that was the end of Emperor Li. |
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| The bus turned infront of these fellows as we entered the fresh water pearl center. |
| Fresh Water Pearls Demo. |
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| Fresh Water Pearls Demo. |
| Qing Emperor's Summer Palace. Click here for a page on its history and its various sections. |
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| Qing Emperor's Summer Palace. |
| Theater at Qing Emperor's Summer Palace. |
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| Qing Emperor's Summer Palace. |
| Qing Emperor's Summer Palace. |
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| The Long Corridor at Emperor's Summer Palace. Many pictures are painted along the sides and overhead. They illustrate stories that are well known in China or are landscapes from Southern China. The walk is in the Guiness Book of World Records either for its length or the number of pictures. |
| Close up of one of the pictures along the Long Corridor at the Emperor's Summer Palace. |
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| Lake Kunming near the Long Corridor at the Emperor's Summer Palace. |
| Pagoda up the hill from the covered walk. My memory is failing me. Is this where the 44 day Emperor, Mr. Li, went to escape and killed himself here? I seem to remember something about charcoal preparation here too. |
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| See previous comment. |
| At the Emperor's Summer Palace. |
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| As we came to the end of the Long Corridor the pagoda in the previous pictures was to the right and up Longevity Hill. This gate and Kunming Lake behind it were to our left. |
| Lion at Qing Emperor's Summer Palace. Male lion sculptures, like this one, have a ball, usually under their right foot. Female lion sculptures in China usually have a baby lion under their left foot. We saw this identification convention with elephant sculptures also. |
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| Building at Qing Emperor's Summer Palace. |
| The Emperor had a large boat like this on the lake but it burnt. He had it replaced with this "Marble" one. It doesn't float but it is permanent, as he wished his reign to appear. |
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| Melanie at the Qing Emperor's Summer Palace. |
| Planting trees in Beijing. We were impressed by the hundreds of thousands of young trees we saw all along our trip, both in the cities and in the countryside. |
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| A security man at the Hua Du Hotel, where we stayed in Beijing. |
| The Welcoming dinner, a Peking Duck Banquet in Beijing, on our 2nd night of the trip. |
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