This was taken on the way from the Tian An Men square to the Temple of Heaven. He had his twin seating on the other side of the walk. I’ll put it out here tomorrow.
Category: China
The Great Great Wall in the Smokes
19 years ago when I first time visited The Great Wall the weather was perfect, with blue skies and some pretty clouds. Past summer I was hoping to see the same view. Wasn’t to be. Hot, steamy white air was cloaking the hills. Slight disappointment. Nerveless, we had great time.
Big Enough to Cook a Horse
When I saw these huge pots I imagined how back in the Imperial times they used them to cook meals for entire royal staff or maybe for their guards or army. You can chop and cook a lot of meat in it. There would be a slow fire under it, probably maintained non stop, with servants running around, preparing meat and vegetables. They probably had some type of ladder next to it so they could stir it while it was cooking. The main chef will come by and taste it once in a while. It was probably some tasty beef stew, umm, I’m getting hungry, it is dinner time.
This is inside the Forbidden City, Beijing. We were trying to stay away from the crowds, and those crowds as many have a crowd or “sheep” mentality, the more of them in the same place the more will come. On a hot day it is not super fun, to say the least. Walking off the main center path actually allowed us to see everything from a different angle and explorer areas where most tourists ignore. Good for us.
Here is another one. I like the cuprum coloring.
One More Time
Ok, one more photo with Great Wall tourist. You can see four other in the previous four posts.
Cute Chinese Lady
Continuing my posts with portrait shots from the Great Wall. We were there at the end of July and it was extremely unpleasant weather, it was hot, humid and smoggy. We didn’t look too glamorous there, we were sweaty and the hit just didn’t do any favors to our appearance. But pretty much every photo of other folks on the wall that I took are looking good, not sweaty and not looking exhausted from the hit and humidity. Maybe it can be attributed to the fact that they didn’t try to cover as much territory as we did, who knows. Or they just know how to handle that type of weather, or maybe they didn’t drink any beer the night prior, hmm. 