Traffic jams and hghly ornamental freeway toll gates

Why is McDonalds like a rat - because in any city one is never more than 20 feet away

Model boat from an ancient tomb at the end of the procession above

A model procession about 10 metres long from an ancient tomb

Not a natural scene at all - it is in fact Bonsai and the real scene is about 2 metres by 1

Notices - There are many English speaking people and contacts but worldwide public authorities always seem to insist on employing local translators who get it wrong. I assume English speaking authorities do the same?

The huge portrait of Chairman Mao in Tianamen Square

A most beautiful wall in the Forbidden City- green ceramic

Dtail from a door in the Forbidden City

Grotesque masks in a shop.
Except in cities shops are all open fronted

Chinese culture is very involved in superstition etc.
This is a stone in the ghost city of
Close your eyes turn around and around reach out to the stone and where your finger lands tell what sort of person you are!
Who needs psychologists?

Art traditional and revolutionary

Cieling detail in Summer Palace and Temple of Peace

Beautiful bronze Chinese dragon in the Forbidden City

All traditional buildings have elaboate corbels

The first multi screen?
The original Peking Opera in the Forbidden City.
The Empress could watch 3 shows at once

A street shop pharmacy in Wushan

Monument in Tianamen Square.
Not sure what the guard is for - perhaps in case someone wants to steal it?

British Ambassador to the Chinese Imperial Court -What can I give the Empress - I know dear! how about that dreadful thing Aunt Maud gave us for Christmas!
Onre of many gifts given to the Empress by foreign diginitaries

The Yangtse is a fast flowing river
This is a moored navigation barge showing the strength of the current - reckon 4 knots plus
It takes cruisers twice as long to go upstream as downstream

The hotels are excellent and some are highly elaborate in decoration with odd mixtures of styles