pictures of my various trips to the capitol of China
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The best buddhist temple in beijing
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The most famous temple in Beijing and a UNESCO World Heritage Site
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Even Marco Polo said it, the most wonderful city in Asia. I got there on a very bad day tough, but the Lake was still amazingly beautiful.
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The pearl of Jiangsu province, a city full of incredible traditional gardens, history, night life.
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the Old Capitol, vital Chinese metropolis with a violent past and splendid preserved original walls
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This metropolis doesn't even seem to be in China... another world, another history, going towards the uttermost western developement!
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Portuguese/European architecture, cafes, relaxed atmosphere, ancient history and exquisitely spellbound neverland, this was a very nice welcome back before diving into chinese Mainland
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The New York of the East, the LA of Asian cinema, the metropolis that never sleeps
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Right across the border from Hong Kong, this city looks like what developing China will probably turn into in the next few years
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The gateway to explore Yunnan province, I spent the Chinese New Year 2008 there
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The pearl of Southeast China, city of splendour, magic and cobbled streets lost in time
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Tourist adored Lijiang, home of the Naxi and definitely a good place to chill out for a few days surrounded by magical mountains
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The last part of Yunnan, where Tibet starts. This is as far as I got to the real thing for this time around...beautiful small town in the middle of a snow-capped mountain range, more than 3000 metres from sea level.
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I had to stop by Chengdu to check out the Panda Breeding centre, unique experience to step close to this amazing and endangered animals...
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Here I am in Sichuan province in front of the majesty of the Grand Buddha, a towering 72 metres high statue carved into a cliff!!
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Beautiful city that almost outshades Beijing, vibrating inside some amazingly preserved City Walls and inhabited by a colourful Muslim population...
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Just outside of Xian lies this amazing collection of terracotta statues, well known around the world as the "Eight Wonder of the World"
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The pearl of Shaanxi province, a wonderfully preserved Ming Walled town...and I even got there during the Lantern Festival day!
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On the provincial border with Inner Mongolia, near Datong, rises an incredibly monastery literally carved into a cliff...
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